Yikes! I wish the Church would say more about it but Pope Francis is skeptical too.
The Church has assessed what is happening in Medj using 2 criteria: the verified fruits and the messages. (Obv, everything is alleged).
The Church sees the verified fruits as being conversions, vocations, renewal, return to sacraments, renewal of married vocations and many other experiences, while dangerous practices have not spread among the people of God. The Note states that these positive fruits are connected with pilgrimage to Medj and are not dependent on meeting the seers or being present at a vision or even reading the messages. The Church would like to see these prayer-related practices of Medj being adopted elsewhere too, in the hope the same results were to flow from it.
The Church says the messages are edifying; don't contradict the Gospel or Church teaching and that many perceived errors were the result of poor translation or "theologically imprecise" language or terms. This was down to subjective human frailty and not a desire to deceive. Certain messages, when partially read, can distort what Our Lady is conveying and this can lead to confusion.
*For example, she never speaks of the End. She has said that this (Medj) will be the last time she appears on Earth because afterwards, people won't need to be called to return to God or to stop sinning anymore. It's easy to see how this could be distorted to say that we are definitely in the End Times. The messages speak a lot about the battle between good and evil in the World and in the hearts of people but no message has been Apocalyptic or about the Final battle of good and evil that will culminate with Christ's return. This para.* was my addition, not from the Note.
The Note rarely mentions the seers but advises people to pilgrimage to Medj to have an encounter with Mary, Queen of Peace and her son, Jesus Christ rather than going solely to meet the seers: <--- this advice is 30yrs too late imo.
The moral life of the seers isn't discussed in the Note but it does say that the phenomena doesn't require them to have moral perfection. If the seers were Saints, it wouldn't make the apparitions and messages true but the apparitions and messages shouldn't be rejected if the seers aren't morally perfect Saints.
All new messages, or messages received in the past for future revelation, must be submitted to the Vatican's man in Medj - his name is in the Note - and they can only be reproduced and disseminated with his approval.
For example, the message relayed on Sept 25, 2024 reads...
"Dear children, God has sent me among you, to love you and encourage you to prayer and conversion, for peace in you and in your families and in the world. Little children, do not forget that true peace comes only through prayer, from God Who is your peace. Thank you for having responded to my call.” (With Ecclesiastical approval) ”
The Church has given the green light but no-one is ordered to accept, believe or adhere to Medj. And after 43 yrs, if the Church had serious doubts about the validity of the phenomena, we all would have heard it by now. It has passed through 3 Popes and the original decrees of Bp. Zanic of Mostar have been overturned, in action not in word. But this is not a confirmation of authenticity...
Adds: From the end of the Note
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Supreme Pontiff Francis, at the Audience granted to the undersigned Prefect, together with the Secretary for the Doctrinal Section of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, on 28 August 2024, approved this Note
and ordered its publication."
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