Fatima is a bit of a conundrum for me, as I believe it was prophetic, but also a pagan/fallen angel apparition. If you haven't read the story of what happened at Fatima, there are enough hints here to find some good links. Thousands saw the final event, and something supernatural occurred. It's also clear that the third secret of Fatima was not revealed to the public. Before we totally dismiss pagan prophecies, it's good to remember that Balaam was also pagan, but his prophetic abilities were real and his pronouncements accurate. (Numbers 22-24) While we can't fully comprehend the why's of such things, we can look critically at them to evaluate them for truth. Let's do that here.
Possibly at the center of the Prophecy
of the Popes and a “Vatican cover-up” of the complete vision of Fátima (and
related prophecies) is a potential papal contender for the role of Petrus
Romanus or “Peter the Roman”—Cardinal Tarcisio Pietro (Peter) Bertone, who was
born in Romano (the Roman) Canavese (“Peter the Roman”).
Socci’s suspicions only deepened after he requested an
interview (well ahead of his work, The
Fourth Secret of Fátima which later cast doubts on Rome’s official story)
with Cardinal Bertone, who, together with Joseph Ratzinger, had coauthored the
June 26, 2000 Vatican document that purportedly released the final segment of
the “The Message of Fátima.”[ii]
Though
some applauded Sodano’s presentation that day, others saw in it, and him, a
concerted cover-up, as the Fátima prophecy
and the alleged fulfillment in 1981 bore significant differences. The Washington
Post was happy to point out these glaring contradictions on July 1, 2000 when
under the stinging headline, “Third Secret Spurs More Questions: Fátima
Interpretation Departs from Vision” the newspaper opined:
Perhaps most unvarying among those who actually had access to and
read the Fátima message was Jesuit Malachi Martin, a close personal friend of
Pope Paul VI who worked within the Holy See doing research on the Dead Sea
Scrolls, publishing articles in journals on Semitic paleography, and teaching
Aramaic, Hebrew, and Sacred Scripture. As a member of the Vatican Advisory
Council and personal secretary to renowned Jesuit Cardinal Augustin Bea, Martin
had privileged information pertaining to secretive church and world issues,
including the Third Secret of Fátima, which Martin hinted spelled out parts of the
plan to formerly install the dreaded False Prophet (Petrus Romanus?) during a
“Final Conclave.” Comparing the conflicting statements between Cardinal
Ratzinger and Malachi Martin, Father Charles Fiore, a good friend of the
murdered priest Alfred J. Kunz (discussed elsewhere in this book) and the late
eminent theologian Fr. John Hardon, said in a taped interview: “We have two
different Cardinal Ratzingers; we have two different messages. But Malachi
Martin was consistent all the way through.”[xii]
By Tom Horn & Cris Putnam
Possibly at the center of the Prophecy
of the Popes and a “Vatican cover-up” of the complete vision of Fátima (and
related prophecies) is a potential papal contender for the role of Petrus
Romanus or “Peter the Roman”—Cardinal Tarcisio Pietro (Peter) Bertone, who was
born in Romano (the Roman) Canavese (“Peter the Roman”).
Among other things, Cardinal Bertone is, at the time Exo-Vaticana
heads to the printer, second in command at the Vatican. As the Secretary of
State and the Pope’s Camerlengo (Italian for “Chamberlain”), he is responsible
during a papal vacancy to serve as acting Head of State of the Vatican City
until “the time of agreement” and the election of a new pope. This means, if
even only for a few weeks, a man whose name literally means "Peter the Roman"
will hold the most powerful position at the Vatican starting in a few days. Our
interest for the moment is with his 2007 book, The Last Seer of Fátima that
appears to have accomplished exactly the opposite of its primary objective,
mainly, to refute another work by famous Italian media personality, journalist,
and author Antonio Socci, whose manuscript The Fourth Secret of Fátima claims
the Holy See has repressed information concerning the true secrets delivered in
Marian apparitions to three shepherd children in the rural Portuguese village of
Fátima in 1917. The three young people were Lúcia (Lucy) dos Santos and her
cousins Francisco Marto and his sister Jacinta Marto, whose visions—containing
elements of prophecy and eschatology—are officially sanctioned by the Catholic
Church.
In
his uncharacteristically explosive response to Cardinal Bertone—Dear Cardinal Bertone: Who Between You and
Me is Deliberately Lying?—we first discover how, after significant time and
investigation, Mr. Socci concluded the Vatican had withheld an important part of
the Fátima revelation during its celebrated press conference and release of “The
Message of Fátima,” June 26, 2000.
Socci describes in the introduction to his book how at first
he truly believed the Vatican’s official version of the Fátima Message, prepared
at that time by Cardinal Ratzinger (current Pope Benedict XVI) and Monsignor
Tarcisio Bertone (possible next and final pope), which with its release to the
public claimed to be the final Secret. Then Socci came across an article by
Italian journalist Vittorio Messori, entitled “The Fátima Secret, the Cell of
Sister Lucy Has Been Sealed,” and a series of questions cast suspicions on the
Vatican’s authorized publication for which Socci had no answers. Why would
Messori, whom Socci describes as “a great journalist, extremely precise…the most
translated Catholic columnist in the world,”[i] want to challenge the Church’s official version of the Third
Secret without good cause, he reasoned. Not long after, Socci came across a
second similar thesis published in Italy by a young and careful writer named
Solideo Paolini, which convinced Socci to begin a probe of his own focusing on
the biggest question of them all—was a portion of Lucy’s hand-written document,
which contained the principal words “of the Blessed Virgin Mother” concerning
end-times conditions at Rome, being withheld from public view by the Vatican due
to its potentially explosive content?
Socci’s suspicions only deepened after he requested an
interview (well ahead of his work, The
Fourth Secret of Fátima which later cast doubts on Rome’s official story)
with Cardinal Bertone, who, together with Joseph Ratzinger, had coauthored the
June 26, 2000 Vatican document that purportedly released the final segment of
the “The Message of Fátima.”[ii]
“I’ve
searched many influential authorities inside the Curia, like Cardinal Bertone,
today Secretary of State in the Vatican, who was central to the publication of
the Secret in 2000,” Socci says. “The Cardinal, who actually favored me with his
personal consideration, having asked me to conduct conferences in his former
diocese of Genoa, [now] didn’t deem it necessary to [even] answer my request for
an interview. He was within his rights to make this choice, of course, but this
only increased the fear of the existence of embarrassing questions, and most of
all, that there is something (extremely important) which needs to be kept
hidden.”[iii]
Though
not expecting to uncover such a colossal enigma, in the end Socci was left
convinced that two sets of the Fátima Secret actually exist: one which the
public has seen, and another, which for reasons yet unknown, the Vatican is
keeping buried.
At the beginning of this possible plot was a description of
the Third Secret given by Cardinal Angelo Sodano a full five weeks before the
June 26, 2000 “Message of Fátima” was delivered by Rome. Sodano’s comments came
during Pope John Paul II’s beautification of Jacinta and Francisco at Fátima,
when he surprised many in a speech, saying the vision of a “bishop clothed in
white” who makes his way with great effort past the corpses of bishops, priests,
and many lay persons, is only “apparently dead” when he falls to the ground
under a burst of gunfire.[iv]
Using the added language “apparently dead,” Cardinal Sodano
went on to suggest the Fátima vision had been fulfilled in the 1981
assassination attempt against John Paul II. “It appeared evident to His Holiness
that it was ‘a motherly hand which guided the bullet’s path,’ enabling the
‘dying Pope’ to halt ‘at the threshold of death.’”[v]
Though
some applauded Sodano’s presentation that day, others saw in it, and him, a
concerted cover-up, as the Fátima prophecy
and the alleged fulfillment in 1981 bore significant differences. The Washington
Post was happy to point out these glaring contradictions on July 1, 2000 when
under the stinging headline, “Third Secret Spurs More Questions: Fátima
Interpretation Departs from Vision” the newspaper opined:
On May 13, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, a top Vatican official, announced the
imminent release of the carefully guarded text. He said the Third Secret of
Fátima foretold not the end of the world, as some had speculated, but the May
13, 1981, shooting of Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square.
Sodano said the manuscript…tells of a “bishop clothed in white” who,
while making his way amid corpses of martyrs, “falls to the ground, apparently
dead, under a burst of gunfire.”
But the text released Monday (June 26) leaves no
doubt about the bishop’s fate, saying that he “was killed by a group of soldiers
who fired bullets and arrows at him.” Everyone with the pontiff also dies:
bishops, priests, monks, nuns and lay people. John Paul survived his shooting at
the hands of a single gunman, Mehmet Ali Agca, and no one in the crowd was
harmed in the attack. [vi]
Other
facts the Washington Post did not point out is how according to the prophecy the
pope is killed in “a big city half in ruins” while walking to the top of a
mountain and kneeling at the foot of a cross. John Paul was riding in the pope’s
car through St. Peter’s square, not walking, there was no big mountain or
kneeling at a cross, and the city was not half-destroyed. And then there is the
contradictory testimony by Cardinal Ratzinger (current Pope Benedict XVI)
himself from 1984, which he gave in an interview with the Pauline Sisters’
newsletter (Jesus Magazine) and which was re-published a year later in The
Ratzinger Report, titled “Here is Why the Faith is in Crisis.” In this
discussion, Ratzinger, who had read the actual Fátima Secret, said the vision
involved “dangers threatening the faith and the life of the Christian and
therefore [the life] of the world” as well as marking the beginning of the end
times.[vii]
Additionally, he said, “the things contained in [the] Third Secret correspond to
what has been announced in Scripture and has been said again and again in many
other Marian apparitions” and that, “If it is not made public, at least for the
time being, it is in order to prevent religious prophecy from being mistaken for
a quest for the sensational.”[viii]
Concerned Catholics have since contrasted this 1984 testimony
with the more recent report by Ratzinger, and have wondered when, where, and
under what circumstance his account changed. The 1981 assassination attempt
against John Paul II certainly did not fulfill the published parts of the Fátima
vision nor correspond to the “last times” as depicted in the Bible. And then
there is the affirmation by the Vatican’s most respected scholars who had
deduced from years of studying the Fátima prophecy that it concerned an end-time
global crisis of faith emanating from the highest echelons at Rome. Celebrated
Cardinal Mario Luigi Ciappi (1909–1996) served as the personal theologian to
five popes including John Paul II and unreservedly held that in “the Third
Secret it is foretold, among other things, that the great apostasy in the Church
begins at the top” (emphasis
added).[ix]
Cardinal Silvio Oddi added in a March, 1990 interview with Il Sabato magazine in
Rome, Italy: “…the Third Secret alluded to dark times for the Church: grave
confusions and troubling apostasies within Catholicism itself… If we consider
the grave crisis we have lived through since the [Vatican II] Council, the signs
that this prophecy has been fulfilled do not seem to be
lacking.”[x]
Even more impressive in his testimony was the late Father Joaquin Alonso who
knew Sister Lucy personally, had conversations with her, was for sixteen years
the archivist at Fátima, and who before his death in 1981, stated the following
concerning the Third Secret:
…the text makes concrete references to the
crisis of faith within the Church and to the negligence of the pastors
themselves [and the] internal struggles in the very bosom of the Church and of
grave pastoral negligence by the upper
hierarchy… terrible things are to happen. These form the content of the
third part of the Secret… [and] like the secret of La Salette, for example,
there are more concrete references to the internal struggles of Catholics or to
the fall of priests and religious. Perhaps it even refers to the failures of the upper hierarchy of the
Church. For that matter, none of this is foreign to other communications Sister
Lucy has had on this subject.[xi]
Perhaps most unvarying among those who actually had access to and
read the Fátima message was Jesuit Malachi Martin, a close personal friend of
Pope Paul VI who worked within the Holy See doing research on the Dead Sea
Scrolls, publishing articles in journals on Semitic paleography, and teaching
Aramaic, Hebrew, and Sacred Scripture. As a member of the Vatican Advisory
Council and personal secretary to renowned Jesuit Cardinal Augustin Bea, Martin
had privileged information pertaining to secretive church and world issues,
including the Third Secret of Fátima, which Martin hinted spelled out parts of the
plan to formerly install the dreaded False Prophet (Petrus Romanus?) during a
“Final Conclave.” Comparing the conflicting statements between Cardinal
Ratzinger and Malachi Martin, Father Charles Fiore, a good friend of the
murdered priest Alfred J. Kunz (discussed elsewhere in this book) and the late
eminent theologian Fr. John Hardon, said in a taped interview: “We have two
different Cardinal Ratzingers; we have two different messages. But Malachi
Martin was consistent all the way through.”[xii]
Wikipedia’s
entry on the Three Secrets of Fátima
adds:
On a syndicated radio broadcast, Father Malachi Martin was asked the
following question by a caller: “I had a Jesuit priest tell me more of the Third
Secret of Fátima years ago, in Perth. He said, among other things, the last pope
would be under control of Satan… Any comment on that?” Fr. Martin responded,
“Yes, it sounds as if they were reading, or being told, the text of the Third
Secret.” In a taped interview with Bernard Janzen, Fr. Martin was asked the
following question: “Who are the people who are working so hard to suppress
Fátima?” Fr. Martin responded, “A bunch, a whole bunch, of Catholic prelates in
Rome, who belong to Satan. They’re servants of Satan. And the servants of Satan
outside the Church, in various organizations; they want to destroy the
Catholicism of the Church, and keep it as a stabilizing factor in human affairs.
It’s an alliance. A dirty alliance, a filthy alliance...” In the same interview,
Fr. Martin also said with respect to Lucia [Lucy of Fátima] that, “They’ve (The
Vatican) published forged letters in her name; they’ve made her say things she
didn’t want to say. They put statements on her lips she never
made.”[xiii]
One
thing is certain; something unnerving did seem to be happening around and with
Sister Lucy in the lead-up to the release of the so-called Final Secret. After
all, the first two parts of the Message of Fátima had been publically issued by
her Bishop in 1941, and the Third Secret sent to the Holy See with instructions
that it be made public in 1960. That year was chosen according to Lucy because
the “Holy Mother” had revealed to her that it would then be when “the Message
will appear more clear.” And lo and behold it was immediately following 1960
that Vatican II set in motion what many conservative Catholics today believe is
a crisis of faith in the form of Roman heresies. And though there could have
been much more to the revelation than just a Vatican II warning, and the Secret
was not released in 1960 as it was supposed to be anyway (so we may never know),
when Pope John XXIII read the contents of the secret, he refused to publish it,
and it remained under lock and key until it was supposedly disclosed in the year
2000. If the first two Secrets were any indication of the scope and accuracy of
the Third one, they had been amazingly insightful including the “miracle of the
sun” that was witnessed “by over 70,000 persons (including non-believers hoping
to dispel the apparitions), whereby the sun itself [seemed to be] dislodged from
its setting and performed miraculous maneuvers while emitting astonishing light
displays; the end of World War I; the name of the pope who would be reigning at
the beginning of World War II; the extraordinary heavenly phenomenon that would
be witnessed worldwide foretelling of the beginning of World War II; the
ascendance of Russia (a weak and insignificant nation in 1917) to an evil
monolithic power that would afflict the world with suffering and
death.”[xiv]
But something about the Third and Final Secret was different,
a phenomenon evidently to be avoided and obfuscated at all costs by the
hierarchy of Rome. At a minimum, it spoke of the apostatizing of the clergy and
dogma that followed Vatican II. And yet perhaps these were simply devices to
lead to something more sinister, elements so dark that it was keeping Lucy awake
at night. When she finally had written down the Secret in 1944 under obedience
to Rome, she had a hard time doing so because of its terrifying contents. It had
taken a fresh visit from the “Holy Mother” herself to convince Lucy it was okay.
Then in the years following, she had been ordered by the Vatican to remain
silent concerning its disclosure. Visits to her for hours at a time were made by
Cardinal Bertone under orders from the pope during which the two of them would
go over the diminutive aspects of the vision in private. This happened in 2000,
again in 2001, and again in 2003. When at age ninety-seven the Carmelite nun
finally passed away (2005), taking whatever secrets remained with her to the
grave, her behavior at the last seemed odd to Catholics who understood Roman
doctrinal “salvation” implications. Antonio Socci comments on this, pointing out
how the long visits with the aged seer were not videotaped or recorded for
posterity because viewers would have seen for themselves the psychological
pressure that was being exerted on the cloistered Sister. “These thoughts came
back to my mind while I was reading a passage of Bertone’s book, in which the
Cardinal remembers that at one point the seer was ‘irritated’, and she told him
‘I’m not going to confession!’” About this, Socci wonders, “What kind of
question could Sister Lucy answer to so strongly? Maybe someone was reminding
the old Sister of the ecclesiastical power, and hinting that she would ‘not get
absolution’? We don’t know, because the prelate [Bertone]—who knows and
remembers the Sister’s (quite tough) answer very well—says he literally ‘forgot’
what his question was.”[xv]
It
appears in truth that poor Lucy was trapped inside a sinister ring of Romanita Omertà Siciliani or “Mafia Code
of Silence” imposed by Rome. Yet Socci believes the full truth of Fátima may
have gotten out anyway, and based on his investigation he offers a brave theory
in his book The Fourth Secret of Fátima
about what actually transpired in 2000 behind the Vatican’s walls. John
Vennari summarizes Socci’s shocking hypothesis this way:
Socci believes that when John Paul II decided to release the Secret, a
power-struggle of sorts erupted in the Vatican. He postulates that John Paul II
and Cardinal Ratzinger wanted to release the Secret in its entirety, but
Cardinal Sodano, then Vatican Secretary of State, opposed the idea. And
opposition from a Vatican Secretary of State is formidable.
A compromise was reached that sadly reveals heroic virtue from none of
the main players.
The “Bishop dressed in white” vision, which is the four pages written by
Sister Lucy would be initially revealed by Cardinal Sodano, along with his
ludicrous interpretation that the Secret is nothing more than the predicted 1981
assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II.
At the same time, at the May 13 2000 beatification ceremony of Jacinta
and Francisco, Pope John Paul II would “reveal” the other part—the most
“terrifying part”—of the Secret obliquely in his sermon. It was here that John
Paul II spoke on the Apocaplyse: “Another portent appeared in Heaven; behold, a
great red dragon” (Apoc. 12: 3). These words from the first reading of the Mass
make us think of the great struggle between good and evil, showing how, when man
puts God aside, he cannot achieve happiness, but ends up destroying himself… The
Message of Fátima is a call to conversion, alerting humanity to have nothing to
do with the “dragon” whose “tail swept down a third of the stars of Heaven, and
dragged them to the earth” (Apoc. 12:4).
The Fathers of the Church have always
interpreted the stars as the clergy, and the stars swept up in the dragon’s tail
indicates a great number of churchmen who would be under the influence of the
devil. This was Pope John Paul II’s way of explaining that the Third Secret also
predicts a great apostasy.[xvi]
If
Socci is correct in this analysis, Bishop Richard Nelson Williamson, an English
traditionalist Catholic and member of the Society of St. Pius X who opposes
changes in the Catholic Church brought on by Vatican II, may have verified his
hypothesis in 2005 when he related how a priest acquaintance of his from Austria
shared privately that Cardinal Ratzinger had confessed: “I have two problems on
my conscience: Archbishop Lefebvre and Fátima. As to the latter, my hand was
forced.” Who could have “forced” Ratzinger’s hand to go along with a false or
partial statement on the final Fátima Secret? Was it pressure from the papal
office, or, as Williamson questions, “Some hidden power behind both Pope and
Cardinal?”[xvii]
If Pope John Paul II’s sermon at Fátima did in fact speak to the “terrifying
part” of the Final Secret—as in the
Dragon’s tail sweeping down a third of the clergy to do his bidding—we are
left with the unsettling impression that at least 33 percent (Masonic marker) of
the Vatican’s hierarchy are committed to a Satanic
Plan.
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