Father Livio: satan in the messages of Medjugorje

Father Livio, the voice of Radio Maria: "There are infinite reasons to believe"
There are many, infinite reasons to believe in Medjugorje ... ». Father Livio Fanzaga, director of Radio Maria, has known the phenomenon of apparitions for 25 years, is a friend of the six visionaries, has published a dozen books on the Medjugorje phenomenon.

The bishop of Mostar told TG2 that the Pope seemed doubtful to him ...

«The bishop is against, does not recognize the apparitions, has never wanted to meet the visionaries. As for the Pope, I was very impressed by the correspondence between his teaching and the messages of Our Lady ».

What are you talking about?

«To Benedict XVI's decision to propose two days of fasting and prayer for Iraq, an initiative requested by Our Lady of Medjugorje. And above all the apocalyptic traits of his magisterium, if by apocalypse we mean the revelation of the struggle for good and evil ».

Don't you think you're exaggerating? His latest book is titled "Satan in the Medjugorje Messages", and the apparitions are linked to catastrophic "secrets" ...

"I do not think it is catastrophic to grasp man's rebellion against God in the current historical moment, as the Pope does. Benedict XVI does not hesitate to unmask the anti-Christian drift of the contemporary world, that is, man's claim to replace God, a process that can lead to a catastrophe. Pope Ratzinger said that over the West "there is the threat of God's judgment", that if we live against God "then we destroy each other and destroy the world" ".

But isn't that of Jesus a message of hope and trust?

"Sure. And in fact Our Lady does not announce catastrophes, she wants to call us to conversion. In a world dominated by evil ideologies, you come to offer us faith. It does not say that we must be afraid, but that we must trust God. It prepares us to face difficult times, but we know that evil will not have the last word ».

Give me good reasons to believe in Medjugorje

«The real reason is the extraordinary fruits. An unknown and unreachable village for a quarter of a century has become a beacon for all humanity. There is a flowering of Marian and Eucharistic piety; people come and go happy ».

25 years of apparitions: aren't they too many?

«It is not for us to judge the actions of Our Lady. I remember that in France, in Laus, in the seventeenth century Maria appeared to a peasant woman for 54 years in a row and that apparition was recognized ».

Are the visionaries credible?

«It is precisely in the duration of the phenomenon that there is an indication of credibility: if it were something human, they would have grown tired. Instead they are good, clean, normal guys, who never contradicted each other.

Scientific experiments have shown that they don't actually lie. " And the judgment of the Church?

«The bishops gave a wait-and-see judgment, which leaves further developments open. The Church cannot be pronounced as long as the apparitions continue ».