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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Colm Tóibín on Medjugorje (with Questions about the Politics of Marian Shrines)

I mentioned a few days back that I've been reading Colm Tóibín's book The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe (London: Macmillan, 1994). One section of this travelogue-cum-meditation recounts what Tóibín saw when he visited the Marian shrine at Medjugorje in the early 1990s, in the midst of war. He happened to be there on Good Friday.

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