Janz's article was pretty insightful. I hadn't realized Medjugorje was so dissociated from the Vatican - seems to be about as Christian as the Loch Ness Monster. (Most of the tourists heading that way when I was in Mostar were Polish - seems like Polish Catholicism is the least critical variety on earth).

The fact that the Franciscans are running Medjugorje (despite having no official sanction) comes as no surprise. Their history in Croatia has been utterly ghoulish. There may be a (somewhat feeble) case to be made for Archbishop Stepinac's behaviour under the Nazis, but the Croatian Franciscans were war criminals of the most appallingly sadistic brutality known from anywhere.