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“Fruits of Ostpolitik”
Update
Vatican Forbids Conversion of
Russia
by Christopher A. Ferrara
 On June 26, 2000
the Vatican told the world that the Third Secret is a thing of the past and
that the story of Fatima is basically finished. The next day Mikhail Gorbachev,
worldwide promoter of abortion, sat between two cardinals (Sodano and
Silvestrini) as the Vatican’s guest of honor at a news conference to
celebrate the glories of Ostpolitik. The abandonment of the Message of
Fatima by the Vatican bureaucracy has only accelerated since then.
On January 30,
2001 the CWNNews/Keston news service revealed the incredible information that
the Vatican itself has ordered Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, the apostolic
administrator for Russia, not to sign papers for the registration of
Catholic parishes under Russia’s 1997 law on “freedom of
religion.” The result is that “All Eastern-rite Catholic parishes in
Russia are underground,” according to Bishop Yulian Gbur of the Ukrainian
Catholic Church.
Why is the
Vatican refusing to allow Catholic parishes to register in Russia? You guessed
it: Vatican “diplomacy” is once again at work. According to Bishop
Gbur, Kondrusiewicz said he could not sign the registration papers because
legalization of Catholic parishes in Russia “would be viewed as
proselytism by the Moscow Patriarchate, and the consequences would be bad for
the Catholic Church.”
Bad for the
Catholic Church? According to Father Sergi Golovanov, because of the
Vatican’s refusal to permit registration “we are not allowed to exist
in western Russia.” So this is good for the Catholic Church?
Let’s think this through: the schismatic Russian Orthodox object to any
expansion of the Catholic Church in Russia, and even to its very existence.
Therefore, it would be “bad” for the Catholic Church if it were to
attain legal status in Russia, but “good” for the Catholic Church if
it became illegal and went underground for lack of registration?
Huh? It seems we
are in the face of yet another example of the double-talk which is so
characteristic of post-conciliar thinking: the best thing for the Catholic
Church in Russia is not to be the Catholic Church in Russia. That way we
can pretend that the Catholic Church does not really exist within Russia’s
borders, so that the Orthodox will not be offended. Accordingly, in the
official directory of the Catholic Church in Russia the Moscow community of
Eastern-rite Catholics is not listed as a parish, but—get this!—a
“pastoral point.”
But why should we
care if the Orthodox are “offended”? When Our Lady said at Fatima
“the Holy Father will consecrate Russia to Me, which will be
converted,” I rather doubt She meant that the Catholic Church would
someday have a few “pastoral points” in Russia, but nothing extensive
enough to offend the Russian Orthodox. How much longer will the anti-Fatima
forces be able to maintain the illusion that Russia was “consecrated”
to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1984, when the Vatican itself refuses to
permit the conversion of Russia?
Father Fox, call
your office! As for those who have, until now, accepted his delusional version
of the Message of Fatima, consider lending your support to the only priest I
know of who has the guts to tell the whole world that the emperor isn’t
wearing any clothes: Father Nicholas Gruner.
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