Fatima: The secret's out, despite claims to the contrary
By Cindy WoodenCatholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Despite claims there are still secrets connected to the apparition of Our Lady of Fatima, Pope Benedict XVI and his secretary of state said the entire message has been published and has been interpreted accurately.
The Marian apparitions to three children in Fatima, Portugal, began 90 years ago May 13, and Pope John Paul II ordered the so-called "third secret" of Fatima to be published in 2000.
As the Fatima anniversary approached, the Vatican bookstore was selling copies of "The Last Fatima Visionary: My Meetings With Sister Lucia." The 140-page, Italian-language interview with Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state, opens with a letter of presentation from Pope Benedict.
The two men worked with Pope John Paul to publish the "third secret" and to write an official commentary on it, describing its depiction of a "man dressed in white" shot down amid the rubble of a ruined city as a prophetic vision of the 1981 attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul.
In the new book, Cardinal Bertone said Carmelite Sister Lucia dos Santos, at the time the last surviving visionary, confirmed the Vatican's interpretation.
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posted by Dr. Denice Hanley, DPM, M.Div. @ 7:38 PM
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Yes, who are we to believe, the Holy Father or Fr. Grunner? I'm sticking with the Pope, thank you! I'm tired of these people who tear our beloved Church apart and cause many to go their way . . .
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Blessings
Deacon John BSP Novice
My bets are on the Pope as well!
As the article points out: "As for objections that the secret could not refer to Pope John Paul since he did not die, Cardinal Bertone said such objections show an ignorance of the spiritual purpose of prophecy.
'Prophecy is not guided by a deterministic fatalism,' he said. 'Prayer and penance are stronger than evil and than bullets.'
While prophecy warns of what could happen if people do not pray and repent, he said, it also demonstrates the fact that 'conversion, penance and prayer can change the course of history.'"
As noted above, many times the outcome of prophecy is contingent on our response.
The nature of prophecy is covered in great detail by the Summa Theologica:
http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3171.htm
Blessings!
P.S.: Thanks for referring me to your blog. St. Maximilian Kolbe is one of my favorite saints along with St. Faustina and Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein).
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