Bishop Peric Does Not Addresses All Points Elevated, And Cites The Onset Of A Case That Bishop Zanic Later Misplaced As The Starting Point Of Zanic’s Shock In The Apparitions.

The ruling Communists of after that Yugoslavia tried to manipulate Bishop Pavao Zanic of Mostar in their plan to suppress Medjugorje and the statements of apparitions. Spies were about him and his telephone had been wiretapped.

But Bishop Zanic did not collaborate with the Yugoslav regime or with UDBA, the secret police, and the threats and repressions against Medjugorje were not decisive once the Bishop replaced his initial perception in the apparitions with a stance regarding disbelief and opposition.

Thus says Bishop Ratko Peric of Mostar, the successor of Bishop Zanic, in a new write-up published on the diocesan website.

Response to secret police revelations

Bishop Peric’s write-up comes in response to the book “Medjugorje Misterij”, printed in June 2011, and later coverage by Vatican journalist Andrea Tornielli. Inside book, four Croatian journalists documented how the Yugoslav secret police (UDBA) repressed Medjugorje in the 1980s, through papers uncovered from UDBA’s archives.

Leaving the situation open to interpretation, the authors cited a collaboration in between Bishop Zanic and UDBA as one possible way regarding understanding a certain document. In the article Bishop Ratko Peric denies this option, and additional points to factual errors in UDBA documents. Early on, the particular Bishop clarifies his motives for writing:

“Since the late Bishop Pavao Zanic can be mentioned in numerous pages from the book, and not in a appreciation way, it is our duty, for the love of truth and out of respect for Bishop Pavao, who was a bishop in Herzegovina for 23 years, to respond to such haphazard claims and insinuations” Bishop Ratko Peric writes.

When the book “Medjugorje Misterij” had lend new insight into the Yugoslav secret police’s undertake Medjugorje, expert Vatican journalist/commentator Andrea Tornielli took up the issue inside Vatican Insider. From the original documents translated into Italian, Tornielli made four conclusions:

1) The key police used Bishop Zanic as a “main tool” inside compromising Franciscan priests associated with Medjugorje.
2) As “the subsequent part” of the secret police prepare, Tornielli cites “using the ancient conflict that will exists in Herzegovina between the high-end clergy and Franciscans, foreseen to make chaos in the local Church simply by turning everyone against everybody.”
3) Bishop Zanic’s hostility to Medjugorje had been “fed by a series of documents put together ??by the men of the key police, which were circulated amongst Mostar, the Vatican and some European countries.”
4) A secret police report regarding November 17th 1987 “shows just how Bishop Zanic was willing to accept virtually any document against the Franciscans and from the apparitions, even if of dubious origins.”

“These documents will also be scrutinized through the Holy See committee required to pronounce itself upon Medjugorje” Andrea Tornielli concluded.

Bishop Peric’s recent article has Tornielli’s subsequent coverage in Vatican Expert from the first paragraphs, discussing “very grave accusations”. In addressing Tornielli’s results, the Bishop allows a Medjugorje adversary in Canada to speak for him, from a short snail mail exchange between the Canadian and Andrea Tornielli:

Tornielli is “attacking the intellectual, non secular, and pastoral integrity of the former Ordinary of Mostar, Msgr. Pavao Zanic” but “does not ‘document’ anything, does not verify something: he copies/pastes very serious allegations with out granting his readers virtually any factual historical retrospective” Bishop Peric’s recent write-up says.

Andrea Tornielli has informed that will his article in Vatican Expert was based on translations of the original documents from the secret police, directed at him by “Miserij Medjugorje” main writer, journalist Zarko Ivkovic.

Bishop Peric’s article does not that will address the conclusions the secret police gave his / her predecessor false documents, and that the Communists used the centuries-old conflict among the Hercegovian clergy in dealing with Medjugorje.

One out of five book errors touches issue

Bishop Peric numbers five factual errors in “Misterij Medjugorje”. The initial four do not deal with their bond between his predecessor and also the secret police:

1) The e-book mentions June 25th 1981 since the day of the first apparition when actually it took place on the day ahead of.
2) In 1986, Bishop Zanic went to Rome 7 times, not 18 as claimed in the e-book.
3) A UDBA document claiming that will 10 priests had disobeyed Bishop Zanic over recommendations is incorrect, as no one disobeyed.
4) A UDBA document saying that Bishop Zanic got left a meeting with the other Yugoslav bishops inside protest after his damaging stand on Medjugorje had been criticized simply by Cardinal Franjo Kuharic of Zagreb is likewise inappropriate.

The book’s fifth factual blunder, as found by Bishop Ratko Peric, relates to a UDBA document informing that the secret law enforcement officials considered to compromise Bishop Zanic by fabricating private letters against him. These letters were to be sent to Key Kuharic, to Archbishop Frane Franic of Split, and to Ratko Peric himself, during his time as rector of the College of Saint. Jerome in Rome.

In his write-up, Bishop Peric acknowledges that “the document declares that the letter was shipped to UDBA superiors for approval”. Possibly, no letters were sent. Bishop Peric then is currently writing:

“Peric, the former rector and current bishop regarding Mostar, affirms responsibly that he never received any anonymous correspondence, then or ever, in opposition to Bishop Zanic.”

“But who will be able to rebut all the insinuations via UDBA, which the fans of Medjugorje pass as the greatest discovery!” Bishop Peric additionally writes, as reported tagza.com.