PSYCHIATRIST MELLUZZI TALKS ABOUT MEDJUGORJE AND THE SEERS

In recent times, we have increasingly witnessed the serious state of violence and destruction facing our society. We need God, of conversion, whom the young understand and A well-known psychiatrist, of undoubted Catholic origin, judges from a clinical point of view the visionaries of Medjugorje. Professor Meluzzi, in what state of mind does the visionaries of Medjugorje find ?: "look, I'm not a fan of Medjugorje, I haven't even been there, think a little. So I limit my analysis to the scientific field ". Do you recognize in their hypothesis of pathologies ?: ”absolutely not. I don't see schizophrenia there, I find them absolutely lucid and coherent. In short, I conclude for their absolute sanity. " And he adds: "if we really want to be picky, I say one thing". I pray: "the intellectual quotient of them seems to me even higher than that of other Marian apparitions, of other visionaries. In previous cases they were simple people, but often on the edge of intellectual deficit. In this case no, absolutely not. I mean that in Lourdes, the visionary was accused of any cerebral limitation. Paradoxically, from a medical point of view, I would have more interest in Lourdes than Medjugorje. I clarify: the quotient, the intellectual standard of the visionaries of Medjugorje seems to me much higher in comparison with many other Marian apparitions ". We come to the content of the Medjugorje messages, how do you consider them ?: "in perfect continuity with the tradition of the Church and according to the Marian kerygma. In short, I do not see any particular fractures or news. I believe that those messages, with absolute coherence, speak of the Madonna and of what the Mother of God asks of us. In a nutshell I rate them absolutely good, fruitful and productive, without any danger ". A Bishop Emeritus, another exorcist, argued that satanic deception could be hiding behind Medjugorje, perhaps alluding to possible deviations from evangelical purity: "I respect the Bishop, but allow me to be in deep disagreement. I am for fruit theory. What happens in Medjugorje, or sacraments and conversions, clearly shows that we are not facing a satanic phenomenon. It seems to me that Satan wants exactly the opposite of all this. Then if it refers to any forms of economic exploitation of the phenomenon, which has never been proven, I reply that dishonest people can hide at any latitude, in Medjugorje as in Rome, I remember that even in the name of the Cross there was speculation and marketed, that the Cross it was used as an alibi to carry out exterminations and violent actions. So also from this point of view I maintain that Medjugorje is unassailable ”. Yet the Church is prudent: "but I see with pleasure that this prudence is gradually disappearing. I know that many priests and bishops go there. The prudence of the Church, which has not rejected Medjugorje, depends only on the fact that the visions are still ongoing ". As an established psychiatrist, have you ever had possessed by the devil ?: "of course. There are cases where the doctor raises his hands and cannot explain what is going on. Many times I resort to the exorcist and I have had cases of possessed people who spoke strange languages, said sensational events and spit nails. All this does not belong to hysteria, but to diabolical phenomena. Satan exists as a natural person and the role of the exorcist is important. Denying Satan and his existence is equivalent to ignoring Scripture.
- Bruno Volpe - Pontifex -