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- The Fatima Center described the Vatican's interpretation of the Third
Secret of Fatima as a "whitewash," in comments today by Father
Paul Kramer, a Catholic priest at the Center.
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- "The vision described in the text is a scene in
which the Pope is shot dead by soldiers, and then bishops, priests and
so forth are killed in the same way, one by one, after they have all gone
through a half-ruined city. This clearly has nothing to do with Pope John
Paul II not being shot dead by Ali Agca," said Father Kramer.
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- "Furthermore," said Father Kramer, "the
Vatican's own official booklet containing the text of Sister Lucia's vision
demolishes the Vatican's claim, via Cardinal Ratzinger's commentary, that
the Secret relates only to 20th Century events culminating in the 1981
assassination attempt." Father Kramer was referring to a letter by
Sister Lucia to the Pope on May 12, 1982, which was published in the Vatican's
official booklet on the Secret. The letter, written one year less a day
after the assassination, states regarding the Secret: "And if we have
not yet seen the complete fulfillment of the final part of this prophecy,
we are going towards it little by little with great strides if we do not
reject the path of sin . . ."
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- Father Kramer continued: "If Sister Lucia told the
Pope, a year after the attempt on his life, that the prophecy of the Secret
is not yet fulfilled, and that we are going toward its fulfillment in great
strides because of sin in the world, how can the Vatican possibly say that
the vision in the Secret describes the assassination attempt a year earlier?
Sister Lucia made no such connection in her letter to the Pope, which does
not even mention the assassination attempt. The Vatican's interpretation
has no support in either the text of the vision or Sister Lucia's understanding
of the Secret as expressed in her 1982 letter to the Pope. In short, we
are looking at a whitewash of the Third Secret."
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- "There is another serious question regarding the
Vatican interpretation," said Father Kramer. "The Vatican's official
booklet notes that Sister Lucia's memoirs containing the words of Our Lady
in the first two parts of the Secret end with the crucial phrase 'In Fatima
the dogma of the Faith will always be preserved, etc. . . .' That phrase
just hangs there, out of all context with the previous paragraphs, leading
everyone to assume that the thought would be completed in the text of the
Third and final part of the Secret, following the 'etc.'"
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- Father Kramer noted that, contrary to all expectations,
the text of the Third Secret contains no further words of Our Lady of Fatima.
"It seems difficult to believe that the spoken words of Our Lady of
Fatima end with the ambiguous 'etc.' Where is the rest of what Our Lady
of Fatima had to say?" Father Kramer further noted that the Vatican's
notice in 1960 regarding its decision to suppress publication of the Secret
in that year referred specifically to the decision not to reveal "the
words of Our Lady" contained in the text of the Secret. "But
the text of the Third Secret released yesterday contains no words of Our
Lady at all. This raises a serious question in the minds of many people."
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- Father Kramer added that the Vatican commentary makes
no reference to the Conversion of Russia predicted in the first two parts
of the Secret. "The conversion of Russia is identified by Our Lady
of Fatima as the very Triumph of Her Immaculate Heart, the focal point
of the Message of Fatima. Amazingly, the Ratzinger commentary on the Triumph
of the Immaculate Heart in the Vatican booklet on the Secret makes no reference
whatever to the conversion of Russia to the Catholic Faith. This conversion
of Russia has apparently been written out of the Message of Fatima, never
to be mentioned again by the Vatican. Meanwhile, the abortion rate has
soared in Russia, its government is dominated by atheistic 'ex-communists'
and recycled KGB agents, and Russian society is falling to pieces."
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- Father Kramer drew a link between yesterday's publication
of the Secret and a Vatican news conference today at which Vatican Secretary
of State, Angelo Cardinal Sodano, and Mikhail Gorbachev spoke to the press
regarding the memoirs of the late Secretary of State, Cardinal Casaroli,
entitled "The Martyrdom of Patience: 1963 to 1989." Casaroli's
memoirs defend the Secretary of State's policy of Ostpolitik or silence
and non-confrontation toward communist regimes which oppress Catholics.
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- Father Kramer continued: "It seems that the Vatican's
'spin' is that Ostpolitik has brought about the supposed 'fall of communism'
and that this merely political event is the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart,
leading to a brave new world of brotherhood represented by people like
Gorbachev. But the Gorbachev Foundation promotes reduction of the world's
population through contraception and abortion. It is a disgrace that this
pro-abortion, one-world government globalist was made a guest of honor
at the Vatican one day after we are told about the Third Secret. This is
a gross insult to the Blessed Virgin."
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- Father Kramer observed that no questions were permitted
during the Gorbachev/Sodano news conference. "Whoever heard of a press
conference at which the press is not allowed to ask any questions? Clearly,
the Vatican press office did not wish anyone in the audience to spoil the
illusion that the Message of Fatima has been fulfilled with the 'fall of
communism,' and that people like Gorbachev represent the promising new
future of mankind."
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- The Fatima Center will issue a more complete statement
regarding the Secret within "a short time" said Father Nicholas
Gruner, head of the Center. "Cardinal Ratzinger said the Church is
not imposing any particular interpretation of the Third Secret, but rather
that he is merely offering a comment. This was a very prudent disclaimer,
because the interpretation offered by the Vatican yesterday raises far
more questions than it answers." _____
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- Contact Father Nicholas Gruner The Fatima Centre http://www.fatima.org/thirdsecret06.html
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- The Fatima Center, home of "The Fatima Crusader,"
is the world's largest Fatima apostolate campaigning for the promotion
of the full Message of Fatima, for the release of the Third Secret and
for the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Its outreach
includes the print media, Internet, radio and television. For more information
on the Third Secret, and on (1) What Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Oddi
said previously about its content, (2) Statements of Father Joseph de Sainte-Marie
and Bishop Graber on the obligation to obey the Fatima Message, (3) An
interview with Father Kramer that explains the necessity of releasing a
photographic reproduction of Sister Lucia's original 1944 handwritten text
of the Third Secret, (4) A factual account of the October 13, 1917, Miracle
of the Sun -- Visit www.fatima.org.
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