Primetime Nightline: Beyond Belief -- Miraculous Mysteries will go out on July 13 at 10 p.m./9c on ABC.
The article is is well worth reading and has some fascinating information about Medjugorje.
One caveat. It is important to remember that the Blesssed Virgin has never encouraged any disobedience on the part of the visionaries. Neither have the visionaries ever encouraged any disobedience.
Here is an excerpt:
The warm surf of La Jolla, Calif., isn't a setting people associate with the Virgin Mary. But on many days, there is a surfer whose passion for the perfect wave is nothing compared to his head-over-heels love for the Holy Mother.
His name is Donald Calloway and he picked up surfing as a military brat bouncing around the United States and Japan.
He also picked up marijuana, heroin, LSD, shoplifting and money laundering for the Japanese mafia. By the age of 20, he had a rap sheet, a drug habit and serious thoughts of suicide.
"After having gone to two rehabs, been in jail, kicked out of a foreign country, I was at my crisis in life. ... I picked up a book that my parents had on their bookshelf about the Virgin Mary," Calloway said.
He devoured it, fascinated particularly by the story of villagers in Medjugorje, Bosnia, who said they saw Mary in all her supernatural beauty. About 200,000 people flooded the tiny town last week to mark the 30th anniversary of Mary's first reported appearance. CONTINUE READING HERE
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