1) Some 3 years, give or take 10 years.

2) That initially the apparitions were real, then became figments of imagination.

3) Whatever the conclusion is, it’ll be damning for the Church for the mere reason because it took her way too long to look into it when it became a worldwide media sensation from day #1.  After all, in the 1880’s there were no satellites.

I think there’ll be a decision within the year, and that Medjugorje will be judged non-supernatural, most likely a hoax.
If the opposite is judged, I’ll smile and congratulate folks I’ve debated this in internet comboxes, and hold my peace.

At least five years.  Although I hope I’m pessimistic.

The announcement will be definitive in one way or another.

Given just the negative stuff in the diocesan archives, I think it will be negative.

I’ll swallow hard and accept it.

1) Easily 10 years. If it’s shorter than that I’ll be surprised, given that it’s taken so long for the Church to “get the ball rollin’”.
2) I really don’t know. I’m the president of a Catholic Student Association at Berry College, and we had been talking about going there for the Summer as a trip (I fought against it because the Church had yet to make a rulling). I think, though, that it will be negative.
3) I personally can’t decide one way or another if I am for or against it being an apparition. There are things that I have read that put me at extreme doubt, and things that I have read that have brought be 180. There are a lot of people, though, that have so much invested in Medjugorje being true that there is going to be a lot of heartache if the Church rules negatively. That’s why I pushed for the club NOT to go. I have friends, though, that lived in Medjugorje (and one of them played in the band that would perform before eac vision), and they are firmly convinced that it’s true. What I worry about is people ignoring the Church’s decision if it’s negative.
Either way, I will firmly and devoutly uphold what the Church decides.

1. It should be less than a year. There is enough information available that a drawn out investigation should not be necessary.
2. The announcement will be negative. A series of bishops have said the apparitions are cannot be confirmed as supernatural, but one bishop who was ordinary for the parish has said the apparitions are not superficial. The frequency and durations of the apparitions seems to be unprecedented, so call me a skeptic.
3. I do not see it affecting me personally if the announcement is positive. Apparitions are not binding as I understand. Even so, there is so much evidence against the apparitions, I can’t really see the how apparitions will be affirmed. I guess I’ll have to see the announcement to figure out if it affects me or not.

1.  No idea.
2.  The announcement will be negative.  There is no way the Church will say these apparitions are supernatural while they are still “going on” for the simple reason that if they do, what happens if a “seer” gives a heretical message after that?
3.  I will not be affected if they proclaim “supernatural” other than being nervous about a future heretical message from there, or one that contradicts even a church dicipline.

1) I don’t know. Can’t even guess.
2) Negative.
3) I’d be very ashamed. I’d go to Medjugorje.

1) How long do you think we will have to wait before an announcement is made?

3-5 years tops.

2) Being as objective as possible, what do you think the announcement will say?

Not worthy of belief. I believe that if a judgment is rendered at all, it will be in the negative since any endorsement of the alleged apparitions which are claimed to have occurred over 40,000 times and which continue to this day would essentially empower these visionaries globally to function as a parallel magisterium. “Well visionary so and so said the Blessed Mother said this… blah blah blah…” Traditionally purported apparitions come to an end before they receive a judgment concerning its worthiness of belief is rendered by the Church. In the particular case of Medjugorje, apparently the visionaries seem to want to claim that the Theotokos has her own road show…

3) What will happen to you personally if the announcement is contrary to your present view of Medjugorje?

Not much at all. I will trust the Church’s discernment in this matter and move on. I do not tend to focus much at all on any Marian apparition, although I sincerely love Our Lady. They are, after all, only judged as “worthy of belief” not “demanding of belief.”

But I will be saddened and will pray for the millions who were duped by these children and the others involved in knowingly perpetuating a deception if it goes in the direction I think it will go. That is not to say that there were not sincere believers, even among very pious scholars and clergy.

Medjugorje may end up being the religious equivalent of anthropocentric Global Warming…

1) Not in my lifetime, long after I’m dead and gone.

2)Positive or negative, I think it’s more likely that vision at G? is more true.

3) If it is true, cool.  I’m not going there in any case (I can’t even afford to go to Fatima).

1) How long to wait? No idea, but surprised if we have to wait long.

2) What will the announcement be?  The same I’d have gotten from my mother if I’d asked her were my sisters allowed to be playing at houses in the rose-bed.

3) How will I be affected?  If one has been filial to the Church’s directives thus far, then the likelihood is one will continue to be obedient to the Church.  If one’s devotion is to Our Lady of Fatima or Guadeloupe, this need not change.

The only people at risk of having to change are those devoting themselves to Medjugorje now, insomuch as a contrary announcement will mean they will not be permitted from continuing any devotions.

Personally, I think it certain that the Church will confirm there is NO evidence of apparitions here and that, inevitably, certain people and groups, who have encouraged a spirit of disobedience within the Church by getting involved in official pilgrimages, official promotions etc, will continue to be disobedient.

Not sure

As one of the millions who have visited Medjugorje and had their life changed,I have tried to live the messages of Our Blessed Mother, I for one will be obedient to what the Church will rule about it’s authenticity. Since June of 1981 the messages have always asked for the faithful to listen and be obedient to the Church hierarchy. The Holy Spirit moves as he wills throughout all of history and this is no different.

1. 3 years
2. Not able to authenticate as apparitions. First “seers” don’t fit description of those to whom heavenly visions have been granted. More likely a hoax.
3. Happy to be wrong.

1. As soon as the 1st secret, publicly announced by one of the seers 10 days in advance, occurs exactly as predicted.

2. The Vatican will subsequently indicate; “There is now only a short time for conversion. We therefore declare the Medjugorje apparitions worthy of belief”.

3. The odds of six normal children each maintaining a lie for almost 29 years is about the same as mine for winning the powerball lottery this weekend.

I can’t really answer questions 1 to 3 without knowing the answer to another question: how does the evidence for solar miracles at Medjugorje compare with the evidence for the solar miracle at Fatima? Does anyone know?

1. As soon as the first secret unfolds.

2. Penance, Penance, Penance before the third secret, there will not be enough time after that.

3. Why did vatican form this commission when it is under going the worst crises in 500 years ? only something close a miracle can save the church and the vatican knows it can find this miracle at Medjugorje.

1) 1-2 years unless there is significant new evidence in support of belief.

2) There will not be a sanctioning of belief, but the rejection will be less than definitive unless someone confesses.

3) The result changes nothing.  The faith is the faith and no legitimate event can change that.

It will take as long as the apparitions are still purported to be going on.

I don’t know.

My present view is confused. It will be clarified.

1) How long before an announcement? - If it’s negative it may be a year or less.  If it’s deemed worthy of belief it’ll have to be after the apparitions have ceased which could be who knows how long.  I’ve heard that at least one of the seers is supposed to receive yearly apparitions until death.

2) What do you think the announcement will say?  Since I think it will be deemed worth of belief, I don’t think we’ll be hearing anything soon.  I think the most negative statement we’ll hear is that the commission can not find anything supernatural happening, but find nothing otherwise negative….but that would only happen before the secrets are revealed.

3) What will happen to you personally if the announcement is contrary to your present view of Medjugorje?  If it’s judged negatively it will be easy to accept, because the only fallout will be the deepened love I’ve gained for Our Lady through what I thought were messages from her.  It would make me sad though to see those that still clung to the apparition.

My daughter who has a disability and I went to Medjugorie in 1985.  I asked for a miracle of course but it was not given.  Yet I believe and so does she that there is no way that these visions are false.  The fact that Cardinal Shoenborn visited there says a lot.  Our visit which we undertook without any group- just on our own - was peppered with so many instances of God’s Providence that it is truly mistifying.  Like when we arrived there late and could not find a hotel room.  The front desk said there were no rooms available only to be interrupted by an employee who told him of a vacancy. I would definitely obey the church but there is no way that I could agree that the apparations were false.

Apparitions may or may not be true. Having said that, the millions of prayers of hopeful, faithful people still make it “Holy Ground”

(1) I have no idea.

(2) Negative. Every aspect of the Church’s response (and local bishops’ responses) to this phenomenon leans in that direction.

(3) I will be shocked but will happily admit that I was missing something very important all along.

1. Before 2012
2. Whatever the announcement says, it will be true
3. The outcome is not going to affect me

1) How long do you think we will have to wait before an announcement is made?
A year or two. Give or take a few.

2) Being as objective as possible, what do you think the announcement will say?
The same as the previous Commissions’.

3) What will happen to you personally if the announcement is contrary to your present view of Medjugorje?
Nothing. Public Revelation is enough for me.

1) No comment on how long the investigation might take. Personally, I’m in no hurry.
2) I see much in the Medjugorje reports that seems to build up our Catholic Faith. Encouragement of prayer, Confession, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Didn’t Pope John Paul II encouraged Catholics to go there for those fundamental reasons? So, I’m inclined to think the visions will be declared authentic.
3) If they are declared not to be real visitations by the Blessed Virgin Mary, that would have no particular affect on me. If authentic, that would be wonderful. Either way, the story of Catholicism is packed with real miracles, and Mary faithful visits every soul longing for at least a small place in the garden of her Immaculate Heart.
— David Hendrickson, Portland, Oregon

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