That's the question The Devil's Final Battle by Father Paul Kramer tries to ask. The Fatima story is an amazing one. In 1917, just before the unleashing of World War I, three children in Portugal see a vision of Mary. They are told to tell the people to honor the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Tens of thousands hear of the children's visions and go to Portugal, seeing the miracle of the dancing sun.
The church responds favorably to the visions and messages. They institute the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Two of the children die very young. The third, their cousin Lucy, becomes a nun and continues to get visits from the Virgin Mary on occasion. Mary gives her insight into future events. About upcoming chastisements and apostasy in the church. She is given secrets to divulge to the church hierarchy. Secrets about the need to consecrate Russia to her Immaculate Heart in order to avoid a great chastisement. She tells them that God is unhappy with us and He will use Russia as a force of chastisement and the outcome will include the annihilation of entire nations.The church does not consecrate Russia. The Russian revolution ensues. The official belief is in Russia now atheism. Russia takes over countries in the coming decades, changing borders, erasing nations.
And still the Church does nothing.
The Third Secret, the one that deals with attacks on the dogma of the Catholic Church and apostasy within its ranks are held, under orders of Mary, until 1960, when she wants them read to all the people.
But the Church does nothing.
Jacinta Marto (age 7), Lucias Santos (10)and Francisco Marto (9) in Portugal, 1917.
Soon after 1960, Vatican II is instituted. The Church is impacted by new liberalism. Liberalism previous Popes had warned about. Apostasy creeps into the church structure. As foretold in Revelations, the dragon sweeps down a third of the stars from the sky... i.e., Satan effects a third of the priests in the church. Sister Lucy herself warned that the Devil will attach clergy specifically because corrupting a clergy's soul has the effect of corruption hundreds more.
Later, in 1981 Pope John Paul II "releases" the contents of Third Secret, explaining the symbolism and describes the slain "bishop in white" laying dead among the faithful as the attempted assassination on his life. And with that statement, the mysteries of the Third Secret are closed.
Or are they?
What about the contents related to the dogma that Sister Lucy started and revealed early on, but withheld the rest of the contents until later. She apparently delivered two items to the Church, a letter in a sealed envelope approximately 25 lines long that seems to be the words from Mary herself. And she also gave them a notebook of her visions, the including visions specific to the Third Secret that is four pages, about 60 or so lines, describing the vision, but not the Marian message behind it.
Thousands watch the Miracle of the Sunat Fatima
It is concluded, in The Devil's Final Battle, that the Vatican released the information related to the four page visionary description, but has never released the Marian words itself, because none of the Vatican released information has to do with the attack on the dogma of the Catholic Church. And because numerous priests, bishops and cardinals who had seen the single page within the once-sealed envelope mentioned its contents and none of their comments are in line with an assassination attempt on a Pope.
The book is an intriguing read and meticulously researched. It offers numerous well documented and disturbing attempts, specifically by European Masons and later Communists, to infiltrate and corrupt the Catholic Church from within.
It was written before Pope John Paul II's death and is very hard on a guy named Cardinal Ratzinger... who happens now to be Pope Benedict XVI. It contends that Mary came to those three children to keep us from our own weaknesses, to avoid liberal reinterpretation of the faith and which would eventually move up the Vatican food chain until major church changes would be put into place in contradiction to the Church's dogma.
When one thinks that the Church's action could have prevented the atheistic Marxist revolution in Russia... How would the world be different if Russia was, in 1917, instead converted to Catholicism?
How would the world be different if in the 1960s Vatican II had not been instituted?
What would the Church be like now if it had, as requested by Mary, read aloud the contents all of the secrets of Fatima, owning up to its own human frailty instead of protecting itself from its flaws, thereby leading to the current state of diminished vocations and the priest sex-abuse scandals.
How much better of a place would that world be like to live in?
The Devil's Final Battle is a thoroughly investigated book, but, to be honest, I don't have the knowledge to know if the assumptions put forth in the book are accurate or simply just a conspiracy theorist's interpretation. Taking it at face value, however, the book does make numerous valid and prayer-provoking points.
Above all it makes me wonder how things would have been different if the Church would have listened to the Mother of God through the voice of those three little children.
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2 comments:
Pete, I haven't read the book, but I wonder if Pope John initiated Vatican II because of the letter, not to spite it. To tie the pedophilia scandal to liberalism is disingenuous. Many of the lawsuits are tied to crimes done back from the '60s to the '80s which was a time of transition into Vatican II. If there wasn't a Vatican II, I can't see the pedophilia issue even being discussed.
True, Vatican II may have been in reaction to the message as opposed to being in opposition to it. We can't really tell, as we've never heard the Marian interpretation of the vision.
I didn't mean to tie pedophilia to liberalism directly, but instead communicate how the book ties the loosing of the dogma to an infiltration of ideas and values that were fought and warned against by previous Popes.
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