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Mother Angelica Says
Third Secret
Not Fully Revealed
by Christopher A. Ferrara
 Since June of
2000 the Fatima revisionists have been bashing Father Nicholas Gruner and his
apostolate for even daring to suggest that the Vatican has been less than
forthcoming in its disclosure of the Third Secret of Fatima. Yet millions of
Catholics around the world share Father Gruner’s skepticism about the
disclosure: a vision of the Pope and members of the hierarchy being shot down
at the foot of a cross could hardly be all there is to a Secret the Vatican
kept under lock and key for more than 40 years.
My own view is
that what we see in the June 26th disclosure is the visual aspect of the Third
Secret, but without the sound track consisting of “the words of Our
Lady which She confided to the three children as a secret”—to
quote the Vatican’s own press release explaining the suppression of the
Secret back in 1960. I have spoken to priests, monsignors, news reporters and
countless lay people about the Vatican disclosure and have yet to find anyone
outside the Fatima revisionist camp who thinks that we have been given the
entirety of the Secret.
Nor did Cardinal
Ratzinger assuage anyone’s suspicions when he told the world last June
26th that “No great mystery is revealed; nor is the future unveiled”
in the Third Secret. Well, if that is the case, then why was this
non-mysterious, non-revelatory document kept under lock and key for so many
years? And why did Ratzinger say in 1984 (in a famous interview in Jesus
magazine) that the Secret speaks of “dangers to the Faith and life of the
Christian, and therefore the life of the world . . . and the importance of the
novissimi (end times),” and that the Secret “corresponds to
what has been said . . . in other Marian apparitions.” Well, which is it?
Nothing about the future, or much about the future? And where in the vision
disclosed on June 26th is there anything corresponding to what has been
said in other Marian apparitions? Moreover, if, as Ratzinger now claims,
the culmination of the Third Secret was the failed attempt on the Pope’s
life in 1981, why was the Secret kept hidden for yet another 19 years
thereafter?
No, something
isn’t right here. And now we find that Mother Angelica is one of those
millions of Catholics who agrees that things just don’t add up. When asked
if she believes we were given the whole Secret last June, Mother Angelica said
this on her live television show of May 16, 2001:
As for the
Secret, well I happen to be one of those individuals who thinks we
didn’t get the whole thing. I told ya! I mean, you have the right to
your own opinion, don’t you, Father? There, you know, that’s my
opinion. Because I think it’s scary. And I don’t think the
Holy See is going to say something that does not happen, that might happen. And
then what does it do if it doesn’t happen? I mean the Holy See cannot
afford to make prophecies, because. I know, —I don’t know—my
funeral . . . It’s not me, so don’t look at me . . .
Something’s gonna happen soon. It could be twenty years before it
happens. So to God “soon” could be a thousand years. We don’t
know that.
Just what
are the folks at EWTN going to do about this outburst of candor from the feisty
nun from Alabama? With just a few words she has completely undone their
meticulous efforts to portray Father Gruner as some sort of conspiracy nut.
Ever-so-casually Mother Angelica let it slip that she happens to agree
with—oh nooooo!—Father Gruner. Not to mention the millions of other
Catholics of like mind. So, the view that something is missing from the Third
Secret can no longer be quarantined to the fever swamp, where the Fatima
revisionists would like to pretend it belongs.
Mother
Angelica’s little bombshell is already sending shockwaves into the
crumbling foundations of Fatima revisionism. Consider: if Mother Angelica, a
veritable living icon of neo-Catholicism, says that the Vatican is holding out
on us regarding the Third Secret, then how can the neo-Catholics lacerate
Father Gruner for his view that the Vatican is also holding out on us when it
comes to the “consecration” of Russia? Is Mother Angelica the only
one who can question the official line of the Vatican bureaucracy? And if, as
Mother Angelica rightly says, “you have the right to your own
opinion” about disclosure of the Third Secret, then why doesn’t
Father Gruner have a right to his own opinion? Do nuns have greater
liberty of opinion on the question of Fatima than priests with advanced
theological degrees and 23 years of experience in the subject?
Well, well,
well. Things just keep getting more uncomfortable for the Fatima revisionists.
Try as they might, they cannot patch all the cracks in their crumbling edifice
of disinformation. Now one of their own has spoken the truth. Let’s sit
back and watch the show as they try to condemn Father Gruner for saying
precisely what Mother Angelica has said—on national television, no less.
A
prediction: EWTN’s charismatic, neo-Catholic-controlled board of directors
will procure, or at least try to procure, some sort of “retraction”
from Mother Angelica. Too late. The Third Secret cat is out of the bag.
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