This week’s edition of the Catholic Herald carries an interesting article by Michael Davis about the Church’s impending judgement on Medjugorje, which you can read here. Mr Davis is completely correct, in my view, in his analysis. Whatever the Church says is likely to alienate at least one group of people. What then is to be done? To say that the appearances at Medjugorje are supernatural in origin will be problematic; to deny that will be problematic; and to say that some were and some were not seems very strange indeed and perhaps the worst of all worlds. But there is another course of action, and that is to say nothing at all. There is a strong Biblical precedent for this. Acts 5: 34-39 tells us of the intervention of the wise Gamaliel: