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Fri 07 Jul 2009Pope laicises priest accused of creating Medjugorje claims
POPE BENEDICT XVI has laicised Fr Tomislav Vlasic, the controversial Franciscan priest who long served as the “spiritual adviser” to the six young Bosnian Croats who claim to have had more than 40,000 visions of the Virgin Mary at Medjugorje in Bosnia.
In a motu proprio (an impromptu papal ruling) widely reported in Italian media this week, Pope Benedict has returned Fr Vlasic to the lay state and dispensed him from his vows.
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