 He considers the alleged apparitions to be false and referred to them as "religious show" and ""spectaculum mundo"".Perić wrote a personal letter declaring his position that nothing supernatural was occurring in Medjugorje (the third designation).In order not to mislead the faithful into believing that his statement was an official Church position, Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, the Secretary to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that was presided over at the time by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, wrote in a letter to the bishop of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion that "what Bishop Perić said in his letter … is and remains his personal opinion."