“The devil inside the Vatican” made a big splash in the UK Times with help from Drudge, a week after it broke in lesser pubs. It’s a feud between exorcists, per a story by Stephen K. Ryan at ministryValues.com, who says it’s a matter of dueling exorcists.
“Well known Vatican Exorcists” Father Gabriele Armoth and Bishop Andrea Gemma have sharply different views of the scene at Medjugorje, a small village in Bosnia-Herzegovina where many believe the Virgin Mary “has been appearing and giving messages to the world” since 1981.
Amorth, a renowned exorcist and vigorous supporter of Medjugorje (He called it a “Fortress against Satan”) in Rome released a book of memoirs in which he declares to know of the existence of Satanic sects in the Vatican where participation reaches all the way to the College of Cardinals.
In 1973 he backed up the film “The Exorcist” as “substantially exact.” In the Medjugorje experience, he sees a remedy now for Satanic influence in the Vatican, concerning which he says Pope Benedict “does what he can,” which apparently is not enough.
Bishop Gemma, on the other hand
one year ago . . . denounced the alleged visions of Our Lady . . . as the “work of the devil” and a “diabolical deceit” [and] has rejected claims made by the six Bosnian ‘seers’ that they have seen the Virgin Mary “thousands [of] times over the past 27 years.”
He told an Italian magazine, “In Medjugorje everything happens in function of money: Pilgrimages, lodging houses, sale of trinkets. . . . It is a scandal.” He predicted a Vatican crackdown on the promoters of the visions.
Indeed, in September, 2008, the Vatican did discipline one of them, Rev. Tomislav Vlasic, a Franciscan priest, “for failing to cooperate with a Vatican inquiry” following his being reported “for the diffusion of dubious doctrine, manipulation of consciences, suspicious mysticism, disobedience toward legitimately issued orders” and charges that he “violated the Sixth Commandment,” Australia-based Cath News reported.
Blithe Spirit 
Not yet sure about what to think of Medjugorje — people I know have come back renewed in faith, which is supposed to be a fruit of authentic visions.
On the other hand, the phenomena have lasted such a long time and the messages are repetitive. It makes me wonder if it is a hoax and it is being milked for all it’s worth
About a year ago a devout friend went to Chicago to see one of the visionaries who visited a Catholic church. There was standing room only. I thought to myself, why aren’t these same people crowding the church to visit Christ, who is present all the time? Superstition instead of religion?
Then again, wasn’t it Pope Paul VI who detected “the smoke of Satan in the Church?” He knew that members of the priesthood and hierarchy were not all faithful even back then.
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