About me​

 

Research Focus​ | Scholarly Mentions | Selected National and International Media Coverage | Publications and Contributions

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Research Focus 

I hold a Master's degree in Humanities and teach professionally. My research focuses on the historical-critical analysis of religious phenomena considered miraculous.

 

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Scholarly Mentions​​​​​

My work has been cited in:

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• Marijana Belaj (University of Zagreb), Milijuni na putu. Antropologija hodočašća i sveto tlo Međugorja, Jesenski i Turk, 2012, pp. 84, 90-91, 172, 195.

• Elke Pahud de Mortanges (University of Freiburg), "Wie halten Sie es mit Privatoffenbarungen?“, in H. Wolf (ed.), "Wahre“ und „falsche“ Heiligkeit, Oldenbourg Verlag 2013, p. 129.

• Manfred Hauke (Faculty of Theology of Lugano), Le prime “apparizioni” della “Gospa” a Medjugorje e la loro valutazione. Breve status quaestionis, in "Rivista Teologica di Lugano", XXIII, 2, 2018, pp. 435, 437, 439, 450, 459.

-----, Recensioni: Marco Corvaglia "La verità su Medjugorje. Il grande inganno" , in "Rivista Teologica di Lugano", XXIII, 3, 2018, pp. 673-675.

-----, Innere Widersprüche und Schönfärberei. Die vatikanischen Äußerungen vom 19. September 2024 über Medjugorje, in "Sedes Sapientiae Mariologisches Jahrbuch", 28, 2024, pp. 184-185.

• Francesco Ferrari (Universidad Católica de Colombia, Bogotá), Le "apparizioni" della Madonna a Medjugorje tra la dissoluzione della Jugoslavia e la guerra in Bosnia (1981-1995), in "Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni" - Sapienza University of Rome, n. 85/2, 2019, p. 799.

• Joachim Bouflet (former consultant for the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints), Impostures mystiques, Cerf, 2023, pp. 222, 227, 231, 232, 357, 360.​

• Ratko Perić (emeritus bishop of Mostar), Djevice premudra: O Međugorju iz ljubavi prema istini, Tonimir, 2024, pp. 46-47, 53, 62, 64, 81, 93, 135-136.

• Ksenija Borojevic (University of Massachusetts, Boston), El fenómeno de la Madonna de Medjugorje: peregrinaciones, turismo religioso y pandemia,  in O. Molina Palestina (ed.), Peregrinar desde casa, ANUIES, Ciudad de México 2025, p. 186.

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Selected Media Mentions

• El Mundo, 5 September 2010 (I. Sota, El milagro económico de la Virgen Bosnia).

• Rai News, L'Inchiesta (written by Flaviano Masella), 16 June 2011.

• Vatican Radio, 1 March 2012 (Hungarian-language programming: Medjugorje – maszk nélkül, by Fr. Szabó Ferenc [Audio and text of the transmission]).

• Rai 3, La Grande Storia (Medjugorje: la Storia e la Fede, written by Fania Petrelli), 1 August 2014.

• Rai Radio 1, Radio anch'io (hosted by Giorgio Zanchetti), 24 giugno 2015.

• The New York Times, 27 August 2015 (E. Povoledo, Church Inquiry May Pit Pope Against a Popular Bosnian Shrine).

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Publications and Contributions​​​​​​​​

I am the author of La verità su Medjugorje  [The Truth About Medjugorje] (Lindau, 2018), a revised and updated edition of a previous 2007 version, and lectured on "The Hidden Roots of Medjugorje" at the 2013 Conference of the International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA).
I prefaced the books:

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• Donal A. Foley, Comprendere Medjugorje, Cantagalli, 2017.

• Giorgio Gagliardi, La Madonna negata, Vertigo, 2023 (see:​ Received from Dr. Giorgio Gagliardi, Coordinator of Scientific Medjugorje Commission).

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​My other publications are listed below in thematic order (the abbreviation “KC”, when present, indicates articles collected in the Knowledge Commons research repository).

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The Shroud of Turin

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• Images Not Made by Human Hand? [KC]​

• The Shroud: The True and Unfounded History​ [KC]

• The Shroud and the Pray Codex Illusion​ [KC]

• The Shroud: A Western, Late-Medieval Iconography​ [KC]

• Sindonology: Apologetic by Nature? [KC]​

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​Guadalupe

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• Apparitions and Legends​ [KC]

• Juan Diego's Tilma: An Image of Miraculous Origin? [KC]

• The Miracle of Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Emergence of the Legend [KC]​

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Medjugorje

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• The Church’s Position on Medjugorje: Issues and Contradictions ​

• The Medjugorje Seers and Money: The Vatican Commission's "Profound Unease" ​

• Medjugorje: Ten Secrets and a Long Wait ​

• Mirjana Dragićević and Her Choice of Father Petar: The Contradictory Evolution of Her Statements ​

• Mirjana Dragićević and the Parchment of Medjugorje’s Secrets 

• Vicka Ivanković and the Ecstatic State: The 1985 Test Case ​

• Marija Pavlović and the 1988 Message: Her Admission of Inventing It 

• Praised by Our Lady of Medjugorje and Then Excommunicated: Tomislav Vlašić ​

• Father Jozo Zovko: Testimonies and Contradictions

• The Messages of Our Lady of Medjugorje and Support for Disobedient Friars 

• Medjugorje: The Message on the Equality of Religions and Its Apologetic Reinterpretations ​

• The Medjugorje Seers and Their Collaboration with Fr. Michele Barone: the Silence of the Gospa

• Sun Miracles Explained ​

• Medjugorje: Responses to Saverio Gaeta's Apologetic Objections

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