Dear Bob:

All you can do is to pray for her. These people, I believe, have developed a psychological disorder. They are obsessed with the false seer of Bayside even to the point of rebellion against the Bishop.

Bayside is an excellent example of how we should take with a grain of salt all unapproved seers and apparitions. People get so married to these apparitions that when the Church condemns it, they cannot let go.

There is a lesson in that for everyone. DO NOT get emotionally involved in any apparition that has not been approved.

Medjugorje groupies fall into this same dysfunctional trap. Medjugorje has been declared by the local bishops as not coming from supernatural sources. The Holy See has prohibited official pilgrimages lead by priests. Personally, I think one of the reasons that these alledged apparitions have been going on an unprecendented three decades is that it is a strategy to keep the Church from making a final judgment. As long as the so-called apparition continues the Holy See cannot judge it.

That, plus the way the seers' live there live is major evidence that Medjugorie is false.

There is no talking to these people. Frankly, such groupies have elevated private revelations above God and his Public Revelation. It is a form of idolatry. Anyone who reads private revelation messages more than the Bible, is way out of line, and is ripe and vulnerable for demonic influence.

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary