Excerpts from reviews of The Medjugorje Deception: Queen of Peace, Ethnic
Cleansing, Ruined Lives ($19.95 + S&H) by E. Michael Jones, Ph.D.
"Michael Jones has been
investigating Medjugorje for 10 years. This is his history of the events at
Medjugorje, the lives of the people who were changed by them, and the scandels
which occurred there." Theology Digest.
"Perhaps a more precise, and therefore more charitable, title for this
book would have been The Medjugorje Illusion. The seers and their promoters are
not necessarily engaging in deliberate deception, but rather are the victims of
their own illusions. This is, in fact, one of Jones' suggested explanations.
The Medjugorje seers have been seeing something, but they are under the
illusion that it is from heaven, when its origin may be merely, albeit ominously,
preternatural. ... The strength of Jones' argument lies in the accumulation of
evidence of a state of spiritual illusion afflicting the seers, devotees, and
promotors of the apparitions. He gives the general key to understanding a
certain disposition for delusion on the part of orthodox Roman Catholic
faithful when he remarks that every time the bishops neglect to discipline a
single pro-abortion nun, they send a planeload of pilgrims to Medjugorje. The
followers of Medjugorje ... are far more likely to believe some seers who seem
to be reaffirming central verities of Catholic faith and practice. Bishops and
priests are judged by their acceptance of the apparitions, rather than the
converse. This leaves the right-believing faithful open to every kind of fakery,
as long as it is 'orthodox.' Jones chronicles numerous examples of this from
within the Medjugorje orbit with entertainingly savage clarity." Fr. Hugh
Barbour, O. Praem., Chronicles.
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