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BISHOP ŽANIĆ in “THE MYSTERY of MEDJUGORJE” Diocesan Chancery, 2011-12-21 BISHOP ŽANIĆ IN “THE MYSTERY OF MEDJUGORJE” Diocesan Chancery, 2011-12-21 In June 2011 the newspaper Večernji list published a book written by four journalists: Ž. Ivković, R. Bubalo, Z. Despot, and S. Hančić, titled “The Mystery of Medjugorje: 30 years of the phenomenon. For the first time: the documents of the Yugoslav secret police”. On June 17, the day before the book's release, one of the authors wrote an ad in the same newspaper. The book was also mentioned on the website of the Italian vaticanist Andrea Tornielli, on September 9 and 20, 2011.1 The Canadian psychologist Louis Bélanger responded to him on the internet, on September 19, 20, and 21 of this year.2 Tornielli writes that, according to the 1987 UDBA (Ured državne bezbednosti: Office of State Security) document called “Crnica”, it turns out that the principal tool seems to have been “Bishop Žanić, who in the beginning showed himself to be open to the possibility that there was a supernatural event taking place, but later became its most committed enemy”, and that Bishop Žanić's aversion toward Medjugorje “had been fed by a series of documents manufactured by the secret police.” In sum, according to the UDBA report, Tornielli says, it turns out that “Bishop Žanić was ready to accept any document against the Franciscans and against the apparitions, even if it was of suspect origin.” Very grave accusations. The author concludes that the Commission of the Holy See on Medjugorje will need to discuss these documents too. Louis Bélanger reacted on September 19, primarily because Tornielli was attacking the “intellectual, spiritual, and pastoral integrity of the former Ordinary of Mostar, Msgr. Pavao Žanić”. The Italian vaticanist, said Bélanger, “doesn't 'document' anything, doesn't verify anything: he copies/pastes very serious allegations without granting his readers any factual historical retrospective.” Tornielli then mitigated his assertions and, on September 20, wrote to Bélanger that it “is a fact that the Communists were trying to control and influence the Medjugorje phenomenon, and that they were trying to influence Bishop Žanić.” Bélanger replied on September 21, agreeing that the Communists had tried to manipulate both Medjugorje and Bishop Žanić. “My main point is that you convey the allegation that the Secret Service so heavily influenced Mgr. Žanić's decision that he changed completely his position from January 1982 – does the choice of that date point to a specific historical document? – making him a tool of the communist regime, thus its marionette concerning Medjugorje. As if the Ordinary had no legitimate intimate intellectual, spiritual and pastoral motive for the change of his initial spontaneous and positive assessment of the supernatural quality of the Medjugorje events – completely independent of the regime's political stratagems.” Tornielli did not respond further. Since the late bishop Pavao Žanić is mentioned in numerous pages of the book “The Mystery of Medjugorje” (MM), and not in a complimentary way, it is our duty, for the love of truth and out of 1 An article was published previously in La Stampa, September 8, 2011. 2 The exchange between Louis Bélanger and Andrea Tornielli appears on Bélanger's web site: http://en.louisbelanger.com/2011/09/19/journalistvaticanist-andrea-tornielli-influent-straight-man-in-the-medjugorje-drama- 1-his-insinuative-attack-against-mgr-zanic/ respect for Bishop Pavao, who was a bishop in Herzegovina for 23 years, to respond to such arbitrary claims and insinuations. But, as an introduction, another topic: The first untruth: The journalist Ivković writes: “The day the seers met with the Gospa for the first time, June 25...” (MM, p. 120). Which Six? It is commonly known that the “seers” met for the first time on June 24, 1981. This also turns up in the same journalist's writings on pages 9, 17, 29, 166, etc. This is a big untruth that creates confusion if this whole thing has been elaborated throughout the journalist's writing. But if the author is thinking of the stable Six, it is worth mentioning here that, in regard to the “seers”, the “mystery of Medjugorje” has not been resolved yet: who was present on the second day of the “apparition”? In fact, the first encounter was on June 24, and this Six was present: Ivanka, Mirjana, Milka, Vicka, Ivan Dragićević and Ivan Ivanković. The second day, June 25, Milka was not present, nor the second Ivan; and Marija, the sister of Milka, and Jakov Čolo were added. And then: Vicka states that Ivan Dragićević “stood with us and saw everything like us”3 that second day, while the same Ivan categorically denied to Fr. Zrinko Čuvalo, on June 27, that he had been present at the “apparition” that second day, and he denied it three times.4 To which testimony should we give credence? Why is the anniversary the 25th and not the 24th of June? The same author reports the news that the Gospa said “this to the seers a month before the first anniversary of the apparitions, and then they conveyed it to the parish priest so that he could make it known to the faithful” (p. 17). This news was made public by Vicka in 1985. She added that it had happened in 1982, “about a month before the anniversary, or maybe more.”5 It is strange that such a piece of news was not recorded in the Chronicle of the Apparitions, in which its scribe, and moreover the illicit head of the parish at the time,6 Fr. Tomislav Vlašić, was accustomed to writing all sorts of banalities; and yet he must have left out such an important message. Otherwise, this would be a case of some false recollections and memories. It is much more probable that this choice was the fruit of a tacit understanding, as has since been recounted: Podmilačje at Jajce has been celebrating St. John the Baptist on the 24th of June for centuries, and it would not be opportune for the young Medjugorje to compete with that celebration. So it was all attributed to the Gospa who supposedly established, on the occasion of the first anniversary in 1982, that the anniversary be celebrated on the 25th of June, as was made public in the book A Thousand Encounters only in 1985. In any case, over time the group of the stable Six was formed. Let it be said, incidentally: according to the Chronicle of the Apparitions at Medjugorje and in the vicinity about 120 people have affirmed that the Gospa appeared to them between 1981 and 1985, and that Jesus and angels from God also appeared to some of them. If necessary, we could call them all “seers”. Anyway, the Six were chosen. In the article, “The secret dossier. How the UDBA suffocated Medjugorje” (MM, pp. 119-169), Ž. 3 J. Bubalo, Mille incontri con la Madonna, Padova 1986, p. 24. 4 I. Sivrić, La face cachée, p. 214, 217, 220; J. Bouflet, Ces dix jours qui ont fait Medj', Tours, 2007, pp. 51-53; M. Corvaglia, Medjugorje e' tutto falso, Torino, 2007, pp. 28-30. 5 J. Bubalo, Mille incontri con la Madonna, Padova 1986, p. 179. 6 T. Vlašić in a letter to M. K., December 15, 1981, writes from Medjugorje: “As you see, after the arrest of Fr. Jozo Zovko, I am the parish priest at Medjugorje“. It wasn't true. At the request of the Franciscan provincial administration on July 19, 1982, Bishop Žanić appointed Fr. Tomislav Pervan “parochial vicar”, i.e., parish priest, at Medjugorje on July 27, since until the new Code, the parish priest was the friary, the head of the parish was called the “parochial vicar”, and curates were “spiritual assistants”. After the publication of the new 1983 Code, a juridical person such as a friary can no longer be a pastor, can. 520 (1). Ivković reports many untruths in regard to UDBA and he seems to accept them. The main piece of news goes back to November 17, 1987, six years after the start of the Medjugorje phenomenon. UDBA's informers in the province are said to have boasted to excess in front of their superiors in the metropolis about their “successes”. The rest is numerous untruths, one after another. It's impossible to rebut all the untruths here, but we cannot neglect the occasion to do so in regard to the matters that seem truly grotesque. Bishop Žanić – enemy. The municipal Party conference at Čitluk in August 1981 “also energetically condemned the behavior of part of the clergy,” and the following names were mentioned: “Bishop Pavao Žanić, Fr. Jozo Zovko and Fr. Ferdo Vlašić” (MM, p. 121). Bishop Žanić is included here among the enemies of the state along with the two Franciscans. Should we accept this too? It will be useful to make note of it, because later Ž. Ivković will brand Bishop Žanić as a “collaborator” of the UDBA! The second untruth: The aforementioned UDBA document, reported by the journalist as a discovery, states: “So Žanić in the course of 1986 alone went to Rome 14 times...” (MM, p. 127). -- This is not true. According to the Liber intentionum, the journal of Masses celebrated, maintained conscientiously and methodically by Bishop Žanić, he went to Rome seven times in 1986: January 24, April 22, May 19, June 30, September 8, October 27, and December 5.7 Even this may seem too much for someone, but we are refuting the lies reported in the UDBA document and repeated and published in “The Mystery of Medjugorje”. The third untruth: In the same document, the UDBA informers write to their superiors: “That Žanić had lost authority in the eyes of his diocesan priests can also be seen by the fact that in August of this year [1987] he decreed a change, a transfer for ten priests, and none of them obeyed this decree from Žanić.” (MM, p.
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