The message Our Lady said of the Shepherds, to accept Her because many do not accept Her and Her messages:
“…today I desire to call you to pray for my shepherds in the Church. Pray, dear children, that they may accept me, that they may accept my messages, and that they live my messages…”
Just prior to this, a Friend of Medjugorje put out a statement which turned into an epistle, titled “We Must Go to A Higher Truth.” In this writing, he states that Our Lady Queen of Peace of Medjugorje is not to be confined under the authority of the Catholic Church. All of this at a time when the Medjugorje visionaries were being stopped from publically speaking in churches.