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Cardinal Ratzinger has written in the Ratzinger Report hat the 3rd secret of Fatima has to do with what he called "de nivissimis" and Russia

 
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Cardinal Ratzinger has written in the Ratzinger Report hat the 3rd secret of Fatima has to do with what he called "de nivissimis" and Russia
Cardinal Ratzinger has written in the Ratzinger Report (see below) that the 3rd secret of Fatima has to do with what he called "de nivissimis". The Cardinal had good reason to know, having previously read the still unrevealed secret. The Latin expression "de novissimis" means "dealing with the end times", pertaining to the latter days, or about the final events. These "end times" to which Ratzinger and the 3rd secret refer, and about which Pope Paul VI and his predecessors spoke, are well known to Biblical scholars.

"Cardinal Ratzinger, have you read the so-called ’third secret of Fatima’, which Sister Lucia, the only survivor of the group of those who beheld the apparition, forwarded to Pope John XXIII, and which the Pope, after he had examined it, passed on to your predecessor, Cardinal Ottaviani, ordering him to deposit it in the archives of the Holy Office?"
The reply is immediate and dry: "Yes, I have read it."

Undenied versions are circulating in the world, I continue, which describe the contents of that "secret" as disquieting, apocalyptic, as warning of terrible sufferings. John Paul II himself, in his personal visit to Germany, seemed to confirm (albeit with prudent circumlocutions, privately, to a select group) the undeniably disconcerting contents of that text. Before him, Paul VI, during his pilgrimage to Fatima, also seems to have alluded to the "apocalyptic" themes of the "secret".


Why was it never decided to make it public, if only to counter rash speculations?


"If this decision has not yet been made", he answers, "it is not because the Popes want to hide something terrible."
Then there is "something terrible" in Sister Lucia’s manuscript, I insist?


"If that were so", he replies, avoiding going further, "that after all would only confirm the part of the message of Fatima already known. A stern warning has been launched from that place that is directed against the prevailing frivolity, a summons to the seriousness of life, of history, to the perils that threaten humanity. It is that which Jesus himself recalls very frequently: ’... Unless you repent you will all perish...’ (Lk 13:3).

Conversion--and Fatima fully recalls it to mind--is a constant demand of Christian life. We should already know that from the whole of sacred Scripture."


So there will be no publication, at least for now?
"The Holy Father deems that it would add nothing to what a Christian must know from Revelation and also from the Marian apparitions approved by the Church in their known contents, which only reconfirmed the urgency of penance, conversion, forgiveness, fasting. To publish the ’third secret’ would mean exposing the Church to the danger of sensationalism, exploitation of the content."


Perhaps also political implications, I venture, since it seems that here, also, as in the two other "secrets", Russia is mentioned?

At this point, however, the Cardinal declares that he is not in a position to go further into the matter and firmly refuses to discuss other particulars. On the other hand, at the time of our interview, the Pope proceeded to reconsecrate the world (with a particular mention of Eastern Europe) to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, precisely in accordance with the exhortation of the Virgin of Fatima, and the same John Paul II, wounded by his would-be assassin, on May 13-- anniversary of the first apparition in the Portuguese locality--went to Fatima in order to thank Mary, "whose hand (he said) had miraculously guided the bullet", and seemed to refer to the forewarnings that had been transmitted through a group of children to humanity and that seemed to refer also to the person of the Pontiff.


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