The Vatican did not rule that the accounts that children and teenagers saw Mary in the village of Međugorje in 1981 were authentic, but it said that the spiritual experience of visiting the shrine justified pilgrimages there.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00The Vatican has approved continued pilgrimages to a southern Bosnian village where children
00:07reported visions of the Virgin Mary. Despite previous doubts from local bishops and concerns
00:13about conflicting messages from the visionaries, the decision overlooks worries about the economic
00:19interests that have made Medjugorje a popular religious tourism destination. Unlike other
00:25established Catholic sanctuaries, the alleged apparitions at Medjugorje have never been
00:30declared authentic by the Vatican.