Does Blessed Mother Recommend A Book Church Placed on Index?
(reprinted from the Wanderer) One of the hottest-selling books in Catholic stores today is Maria Valtorta’s multivolume Poem of the Man-God, a book placed on the Church’s Index of Forbidden Books in 1961, and condemned as recently as 1985 by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. “It’s one of our biggest-selling books,” Terry Colafrancesco told The Wanderer. Colafrancesco, director of Caritas of Birmingham, a major promoter of Medjugorje messages, tours, and books, is only one of many distributors of the book in the United States, and says he has sold 5,000 to 10,000 copies of the multivolume set in the past year. “It’s so hard to get good spiritual direction in the Church today, because of the crisis,” he said. “These books give tremendous insights into Scripture . . . It is like a pastor reading the Gospel, and then explaining it. People find the spiritual direction they need that they aren’t getting in church.” But Cardinal Ra
