How goes the prophetic pulse?

Matters continue to slowly unfold and sometimes not so slowly. Right now, after Halloween, after All Saints Day (the weekend of battle), a lull. Still, there is currently a great agitation of the spirit and there will be a flurry of sensationalism in two weeks as a film based on the premise of major world-changing events in 2012 is released by Hollywood.

The movie is spurred by the notion that cataclysms loom because an ancient Mayan calendar that runs in 5,100-year cycles ends that year.

While the calendar doesn't actually end (it is reset), the notion is too exotic for the media to let go and there are all kinds of convergences, from economic forecasters who have pointed to that as the year of real financial comeuppance to those who indicate it as another presidential election year in the U.S. to astronomers who say the  eclipse of our solar system will pass across the equator of the Milky Way on December 21, 2012 (at 11:11 universal time), which some think will unleash new gravitational forces.

One can be almost certain that major events will not occur at designated times (everyone should keep Y2K in mind), though there are a number of peculiar aspects to 2012 -- some of them with an occult undercurrent.

The year 2012? The number eleven? We have covered these from all angles. Also, folks still awaken oddly right at three a.m. At any rate, prepare for a "2012" onslaught, knowing that such a year could be wildly premature, or that events could happen before then. God owns the calendar. Our take: expect events to occur when they are least expected (perhaps during a lull).

What of the reputed secrets of Medjugorje, the apparition site in Bosnia-Hercegovina?

In a recent interview, Father Petar Ljubicic [left], the priest who will be told the secrets granted to seer Mirjana Soldo, confirmed to an interviewer (from www.medjugorje.com) that the predictions are on a strange "parchment" that was given to Mirjana by the Virgin Mary -- of course, an extraordinary assertion.

"When the time comes for the secrets to be released, rather the first secret, ten days before, she will give me this parchment," asserts the Franciscan. "I will then be able to read the first secret and then, along with her, I will fast for seven days and pray. Then I would be able to reveal to the world what will take place: where, how, and how long. That is before every secret."

A parchment? And how would the first secret be announced, when the time comes? "I will first tell my closest and intimate friends," explained Father Petar in the interview. "They would be ready and pray. And, of course, through the internet, television, and radio nowadays, and satellite, I believe that that would be the easiest duty. For me, it is most important that people would be ready." Father Petar's own intuition is that "this may come very, very soon" -- though, like us, he knows no dates.

Medjugorje has been in the news of late on the one hand because the local bishop, Ratko Peric, again has stirred against the apparitions (limiting parish involvement with the messages) while a papal nuncio from Austria -- Archbishop Stephan Zurbriggen -- recently visited the site with a group of pilgrims, seeming to endorse it.

Far more controversial are the endless claims, often spawned by Medjugorje, of locutions or apparitions elsewhere.

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