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Cardinal Sodano,
Please Step
Aside!
by Christopher A. Ferrara
 In connection
with its publication of a vision pertaining to the Third Secret of Fatima on
June 26, 2000, the Vatican Press Office also published a commentary on the
Message of Fatima by Cardinal Ratzinger and Msgr. Bertone. Among the many
curious aspects of this commentary are its repeated and conspicuous references
to an "interpretation" of the Third Secret by the Vatican Secretary of State,
Cardinal Angelo Sodano, who also happens to be orchestrating the Vatican
bureaucracy's vendetta against Father Nicholas Gruner.
After referring
repeatedly to Sodano's "interpretation" of the Third Secret -- which claims
that "the bishop in white" who is shot dead by a band of soldiers is really
John Paul II, who was not shot dead by Ali Agca -- the Ratzinger/Bertone
commentary offers the strange conclusion that "First of all we must affirm with
Cardinal Sodano: '... the events to which the third part of the
‘secret’ of Fatima refers now seem part of the past'".
Why must we
affirm with Cardinal Sodano that the Third Secret refers to events
entirely in the past? What special competence does the Vatican Secretary of
State have to interpret the Message of Fatima for the entire Church? Why should
we have the least confidence in Sodano's "interpretation" of the Secret, when
it so obviously has nothing to do with the events seen in the vision of "the
bishop in white"?
Clearly, the
Sodano Interpretation is meant to serve a geopolitical agenda which is at odds
with Our Lady of Fatima's call for the consecration and conversion of Russia.
In order to be rid of the question of the Consecration, the Third Secret -- and
thus the entire Fatima Message -- had somehow to be consigned to "the past."
Only this could account for why Sodano has been so intent on crushing Father
Gruner, who continues to remark the obvious: that the world has not yet seen
the fulfillment of the Virgin's prophecies, as the terrorist attack on
September 11 should make clear to anyone who is not comatose.
Under other
circumstances one could simply ignore Sodano's unprecedented interference in
the rights of Catholics. But these are not ordinary circumstances. The
terrorist attack was horrendous enough, but what if there is far worse to come?
On
September 24, 2001 the chairman of the House Subcommittee on National Security,
Rep. Christopher Shays, warned that "the U.S. is vulnerable to nuclear attack
by terrorists who may have access to as many as 60 briefcase-sized tactical
nuclear weapons now missing from the former Soviet Union. " (Newmax.com,
September 25, 2001) According to Newsmax, "Shays warned that the impact of
Russia's missing tactical nukes is so potentially devastating they would make
an excellent weapon for geopolitical blackmail. I guess if you'd be willing to
kill 50,000 people you'd probably be willing to use it."
These tactical
nuclear weapons are contained in cases which are smaller than the average
tourist suitcase. "They are literally the size of a large briefcase. They're
not even the size of a big suitcase," said Shays.
And while the
Russians at first admitted that about 60 of these mini A-bombs were "missing",
they are now denying it, said Shays, "and we don't really have a straight
answer from our own government." Yet, according to Newsmax, "U.S. officials
believe that some of the missing Russian nukes have been sold to the highest
bidder . . .The problem we have with the Russians is they can't pay their
employees. So some of this very sensitive, very expensive and very dangerous
weaponry is being sold for ridiculously small amounts of money."
If one of these
weapons were exploded in an American metropolis, "It would destroy a city. It
would just be horrendous. It is our worst fear, obviously." Even more
terrifying, "the tactical nukes are small enough to make detection nearly
impossible."
For all of these
reasons, Shays concluded that "as bad as the attacks of Sept. 11 were, the
worst may be yet to come -- even without nuclear weapons. We have every reason
to believe that terrorists have access to chemical and biological agents. ...
It's not a question of if there will be a biological or chemical attack --
it's a question of when, where and of what magnitude."
In short, Shays
has described a particularly deadly example of the spread of Russia's errors,
and it quite literally threatens the annihilation of various nations of which
Our Lady of Fatima warned.
The world now
stands at a few minutes before midnight. The situation could not be more grave.
As one member of the laity, therefore, I make this plea to Cardinal Sodano and
his collaborators in the Vatican:
Your attempt to
bury the Message of Fatima by consigning all of it "to the past" poses a
terrible danger to the Church, to the world, to me and my family. The risk of
following your manifestly dubious interpretation of the Fatima Message is
enormous, whereas there is no risk in following the Virgin's requests to the
letter. It seems, incredibly enough, that only human respect for the "feelings"
of the Russians has prevented the consecration of that nation by name.
Cardinal
Sodano, your policies of Vatican diplomacy, including the avoidance of any
offense to Russia through the specific consecration of that nation by
the Pope and the bishops, are an ever-worsening disaster. Your support of the
godless United Nations Organization and the proposed International Court, and
your association with and praise of Mikhail Gorbachev, the very exemplar of the
culture of death, are a disgrace.
Cardinal Sodano,
as a member of the laity in this time of unparalleled crisis in the Church, I
am compelled to say what my conscience dictates, in the only effective forum
available to me: Cardinal Sodano, I simply do not trust your judgment.
Neither the Church nor the world can safely depend on your reading of the signs
of the times.
And so, for the
good of the Church, for the safety of the world, for the welfare of souls, I
plead with you: Step aside now, Cardinal Sodano. Let the Pope do
precisely what the Virgin requested of him before it is too late. For the love
of God and man, Cardinal Sodano, step aside.
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