The Third Secret of Fatima
Apparitions such as Lourdes, La Salette, Fatima and Medjugorje that promise
secrets delivered only to the visionaries are definitely false for Jesus
stressed the importance of things being out in the open. Jesus told
Ciaphas the high priest, "I have spoken openly to the world: I have
always taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither all the Jews resort;
and in secret I have spoken nothing" (John 18:20/DRV).
The Third Secret of Fatima is depicted to the left. The Virgin Mary supposedly
gave it during an apparition in Fatima in 1917. The official Vatican
transcription of it follows and contains deliberate distortions, “before
reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half
trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the
souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain,
on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers
who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after
another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay
people of different ranks and positions.”
The real version does not clearly say it was the Holy Father. Even the altered
version speaks of the person being shot on top of a mountain. Yet Catholics
delude themselves that it refers to the pope being shot in St Peters' Square in
1981 and is a completely correct prophecy proving that Our Lady knows the
future. And the pope was been driven when he was shot he was not walking. That
amount of self-deception is disconcerting. When black is called white to that
extent you worry if the Church really has any objectivity at all when it comes
to religion and apparitions.
On the thirteenth of July 1917, the Virgin confided a secret to the three little
shepherd children of Fatima. It is called the Third Secret. The first two were
first made public in 1941 though the first one was just a vision of Hell and the
second was a promise that God would save the world by Mary’s heart if it
complied (page 203, Fatima Revealed and Discarded). Much speculation about the
contents and interest in the infamous third one has taken place. Lucia did not
write down the third one until 1944 (page 204, Fatima Revealed and Discarded).
The Church hid the Third Secret until it released a bit of it recently and a
part of it is still under wraps.
“Cardinal Ratzinger – who has read the Third Secret, has revealed three of its
key elements. These are ‘the dangers to the faith today’; ‘ the importance of
the last days’; and the fact that ‘ the contents of the Secret correspond with
what is announced in Scripture for the last days’. When pressed as to why the
Church refused to reveal the Secret he said that ‘ it did not wish to expose
itself to a charge of sensationalism’” (What is the Third Secret? page 6). The
Bishop of Fatima declared that the Third Secret was not about nuclear wars but
only the loss of faith (page 207, Fatima Revealed and Discarded). The Church
never worried about sensationalism before. The doctrines of original sin and the
resurrection of Jesus are sensationalism.
Now, if they correspond exactly then there is nothing to hide. And if the Church
must hide it only because it gives dates and names. It isn’t necessary to think
that the prophecy predicts the end of the world.
The public bit of the Third Prophecy says the Church will forsake the faith
except in Portugal and this context suggests that the hidden bit is concerned
with Church apostasy. But it could be annihilation. The Lady might have said:
“The faith will always be safe in Portugal but Portugal will be destroyed”,
which does not rule out the faith being safe elsewhere.
The Church lies that the Virgin correctly predicted that the dogma of the faith
would always be preserved in Portugal. Portugal is a secular state. Unlike
Ireland in 2012, Portugal had same sex marriage and abortion legalised. Its
president is openly atheistic.
The public things the Virgin said were pretty horrific including that many
countries would be wiped out. This implies a huge persecution or a nuclear war.
So the secret cannot be any worse.
The only thing that the Church could want to hide in the secret is the names and
dates. So why not publish it and edit the dates out for it has to be more than
just names or dates? The church does not believe a word of the secret which is
why the Church would not risk publishing any of it before and still keeps some
of it back after publishing a bit of it recently. It would not give the dates or
names for it knows fine well that nothing will happen. Perhaps the dates and
people have come and gone already and it is too late for the prediction to be
fulfilled.
Pope John Paul II spoke of the Third Secret at Fulda in 1980. He spoke of great
bloodshed for the Church and claimed that the Church did not reveal the secret
in 1960 because she wanted to be diplomatic towards communists (page 19, Fr.
Bertrand Labouche, St John’s Bulletin, Society of St Pius X, August-October
1997). The secret says something terrible about communists but we don’t know
what. The Virgin already said they were dangerous trouble and would spill blood.
Perhaps then the secret said they would assume control of the Church.
The Virgin called for the Secret to be fully revealed by 1960 and Lucia
reportedly said this (page 204, Fatima Revealed and Discarded). This was never
done. This shows that the Church does not really believe in Fatima. The pope’s
pilgrimages to Fatima and his approval of it are a sham. If he really believed
in the apparitions he would have revealed the message.
Concerning the Third Secret we read: “On October 11, 1992, an interview took
place between Sister Lucia and Anthony Cardinal Padiyara of India, Bishop
Francis Michaelappa of India, and Father Francisco Pacheco of Fort Ceara,
Brazil. Sister Lucia was asked by Cardinal Padiyara, “Do God and Our Lady still
want the Church to reveal the Third Secret?” Sister Lucia reportedly answered,
“The Third Secret is not intended to be revealed. It was only intended for the
Pope and his immediate Church hierarchy. Our Lady never said that it was to be
revealed to the public by 1960 at the latest. The Secret was for the Pope.” Some
respected priests doubt that this interview ever took place. The controversy
continues” (page 144). This shows that Lucia did not believe in the apparitions
herself though her Lady promised to convert people with the miracle of the sun.
The miracle was not authentic when a person who was not entirely devoted to
telling the truth promised it.
But what if the conversation never took place? Of course it took place for it
sounds like what Lucia who would not have the decency to criticise the pope and
infer he did not believe in her apparitions would say. If true it still makes
the Church hypocritical for Ratzinger said the reason for keeping the secret was
to avoid sensationalism. But Lucia’s claim is a lie for Lucia never opened her
mouth on this subject before then when everybody believed she revealed that it
was to be told in 1960. She got the pope censured for nothing if she was telling
the truth and that she is unlikely to do. She never refuted the claims that she
said that the Virgin wanted 1960 to be the moment of truth before.
The year 2000 proved that Lucia was being untruthful when she said that the
secret was just for the headmen in Rome.
Part of the Third Secret has been revealed in 2000 (page 36-37, What Happened at
Fatima?). It describes a bishop in white being shot by men walking over a pile
of corpses and it says the children got the feeling that he was the pope.
Strange that they were not sure for they would have known how the pope dressed.
But anyway the bishop in white goes up a mountain and there is a cross at the
top of it. On his way up he passes by ruins and corpses and he is killed by
bullets and arrows fired by soldiers as he prays before the cross. Then the
soldiers started on bishops and religious and lay Catholics who had been with
the white bishop. This is taken to predict the assassination attempt on the pope
in 1981. He was shot that year on May 13 the anniversary of the first vision of
Mary at Fatima. Missionary bishops wear white in the sun and all bishops wear
white at Christmas and Easter and when the children refer to a bishop it implies
that he was wearing a mitre and vestments. And there were no corpses in St
Peter’s Square when the pope was shot. The prophecy is like something any
amateur fortune-teller would dish up for it is so vague and is only partly right
and something that happened to a number of white bishops. Only a fraud would
make a secret out of a prophecy like that. Lucia just wanted to excite interest
in her lies by creating a big frightening mystery. The Vatican was just as bad.
And Pope John Paul II was worse and loved the self-aggrandising thought that
heaven went to the trouble of predicting his future and making a sign of him.
The strange thing is that nobody who read the prophecy before that said there
was anything violent in it - they just spoke of the prophecy saying that the
faith would be abandoned by most.
The fact that the Vatican has abused and probably lied about the content of the
Third Secret shows that the Virgin who gave the secret for some purpose has been
defeated and was not the real Virgin Mary.
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San Antonio, New York, 2007
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Devon, 1988
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McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. Washington, District of Columbia, 1967
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Nelson, Tan, Illinois, 1986
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THE WEB
An Agnostic Looks at Fatima,
http://www.portcult.com/index.fat.htm
Where is the Conversion of Russia? John Vennari
www.dailycatholic.org/issue/2002Mar/mar22fat.htm
