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Marian Apparitions, Part VI, More on Bayside Mary

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Sources: www.rosesfromheaven.com www.apparitionsofthevirginmary.com   www.tldm.org John J. Delaney, editor, A Woman Clothed With the Sun Because the New York apparitions went on for 25 years, there is almost more material available than can be absorbed without weeks and months of study. It used to be on the website “rosesfromheaven,” but for some reason most of it has been removed. Another website, “tldm.org/Bayside” carries some of the more important statements. Check out their Index to find statements and directives by topic. Mary had so many negative accusations against the nuns, priests, Roman cardinals, and Vatican II, that she may have done more damage to the Catholic Church than the Communists detractors. At a later date, when the apparitions at Medjugorje began to be widely known, the Church would be arguing over which was the real Mary. Medjugorje Mary and Bayside Mary could not have been more different. Medjugorje Mary never mentioned the Pope at all. She w...

Apparitions of Mary, Part I, Medjugorje

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Sources: Wayne Weible,  Medjugorje the Message , Paraclete Press, 1989   and  Medjugorje the Mission , Paraclete Press, 1994,  www.medjugorje.com .   Why investigate Mary? I want to look at the phenomenon from all sides, pro and con, but first I want to emphasize that these events, which have taken place since the sixteenth century, are Earth shaking, global, and, for better or worse, paranormal/spiritual in nature. I do not believe for a second that they are hoaxes. The apparitions are possibly cunning deceptions with victims maybe, but not hoaxes. I do not intend to attack or deprecate the Catholic Church in these posts. The Church has done its best to examine these wonders and substantiate or dismiss them. Furthermore, it’s very easy for everyone on Earth who is not a Catholic to compartmentalize away these apparitions and just pretend they never happened. Don’t read about them. Don’t think about them. We do that with things that are...