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In 1944, Lucy wrote the third prophecy, as she said she heard as a girl of 10 years old, in 1917, closed it and presented it to the Bishop of Leiria in Portugal.
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She told him that the instructions of the Virgin was that I would not be revealed to the public until 1960. The Bishop gave the prophecy of the Vatican. In 1960, Paul John XXIII opened the sealed prophecy and read, and the faithful anxiously awaited his promised revelation. But it was not. In apparent defiance of the instructions of the Blessed Virgin, the Pope refused to reveal the contents of the prophecy that says: "This prophecy does not relate to my time." According to Kathleen A. Keating, however, the author of the final warning: Survival Guide for the New Millennium ", John XXIII fainted when he read the third secret because it specifically states, according to eyewitnesses, that the Pope would betray the flock and in turn their sheep to the slaughter devised by Lucifer himself. Juan XXIII fainted because he thought it would be the pope, which would open the door to Satan and that he would be the long-awaited anti-pope ".
It has been speculated that subsequent popes also read the prophecy and so decided not to go public. Now, 40 years later, the full text of the prophecy has been released, but the controversy surrounding it is far from over.
The May 13, 2000 (the anniversary of the assassination attempt against him), the Pope visited the shrine of Fatima, and made a surprise announcement that the secret is finally revealed. The Vatican told the world that the secret was a prediction of the 1981 assassination attempt, by Pope John Paul II. He referred to the passage states: "... 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 the road, having come to 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 ... "
This scenario just described the attack on John Paul by a lone gunman, Mehmet Ali Agca, right on the Plaza de San Pedro in May 1981. The environment is not the same, there was a group of soldiers and the Pope, though seriously wounded, not killed. Ironically, however, Ali Agca - even before it became the revelation of the secret - he had said he was forced to try to kill the Pope as part of a divine plan, and that the failure is related to the third secret Fatima. And the Pope, shortly after he was shot, said he believed it was the hand of the Virgin Mary that deflected the bullet of the attacker, allowing you to survive.
THE CONTROVERSY
Since the revelation, the Vatican was quick to downplay the significance of the prophecy. On the one hand, Catholics are not obliged to believe in the events of Fatima - who may have them or leave them as they are not part of church doctrine. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who was Prefect for the Doctrine of the Faith and now Pope Benedict XVI, said about prophecy: "Those who expected exciting apocalyptic revelations about the end of the world or the future course of history are bound to be disappointed. Fatima does not satisfy our curiosity in this way, like the Christian faith can not be reduced to an object of mere curiosity. A immutable destiny. Ultimately, prayer is more powerful than bullets and faith more powerful than armies. "seemed to imply that the prayers of the faithful had deviated from the terrible scene in prophecy warned.
Many devotees of Fatima are not satisfied with what the Vatican has chosen to reveal, without suspecting that either have changed or not the message posted in its entirety. Why, after all, there were five successive popes so reluctant to make public the prophecy? Ratzinger explained that the secret was kept due to lack of clarity of the message, which he said could deciphered by "only in the light of history." And when asked if the secrets of Fatima referred only to the past, said: "I think so."
Some devotees of Fatima are not buying that explanation, though. "We still have a great punishment awaits us if we turn away from sin," said Christopher Ferrara, a spokesman for the Fatima Network in Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada. Other people in the call center interpretation of Vatican "a whitewash".
Instead, Ratzinger gave a positive spin on the prophecy. "We are encouraged by showing that even in a world that was half destroyed," he said, "there is a force majeure and death do not have the last word. At the end of the century and the millennium, we were able to propose this text to the humanity and the Church in a positive spirit. This indicates that we should use the power of love against the power of violence. "
Kathleen A. Keating wrote about the recent revelation: "The Third Secret of Fatima is still a secret in the press release issued by the Vatican today, the public is made aware of, at best, a watered down version of a sentence of .. true This revelation ridiculous secret is unlike the observations made by Pope John Paul II in Fatima, May 13, 2000, when he said that we are actually in the middle of revelation chapter 12, verse 3: And another sign in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads ... I have a source inside the Vatican, let me know some time that what has been revealed today would be only distantly resemble the actual Third Secret, it would be stripped down, contains very little done. "
Do the messages of Fatima prophecies of our future, warnings about the possible results or just fantasies inspired by the faith of his three young children? Like most of these things, it comes down to what you choose to believe.
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