Fatima & The Great Apostasy

Fatima & The Great Apostasy

“The great apostasy in the Church begins at the top”

What is the Third Secret of Fatima? The complete Third Secret has not been released by the Vatican, but even many souls not practicing their faith sense that it’s much more than just the shooting of Pope John Paul II or a lurking tale of future-crossbows on a Vatican hill.

Indeed, no Catholic is required to believe the message from the Blessed Virgin Mary to the three children of Aljustrel, but it is the reaction to that message from high-ranking churchmen which reveal several vital aspects of the current Crisis of Faith in the Church. The conclusion drawn from their reaction does not depend on the Fatima message being legitimate — all that matters in this analysis is that the churchmen under consideration believe in them. And yet, if we honestly assess the way in which these leaders have acted in light of the Fatima message, we can see something absolutely staggering: their actions paint the same picture of apostasy as that which is apparently contained in the complete Third Secret of Fatima, of which they continue to conceal.

Unheeded Warnings of The Great Apostasy

Several clerics who claimed to know the contents of the complete Third Secret of Fatima have indicated that it speaks of a great apostasy:

“In the Third Secret it is foretold, among other things, that the great apostasy in the Church begins at the top.” (Cardinal Luigi Ciappi, quoted in Christopher Ferrara’s The Secret Still Hidden, p. 43)

“I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to little Lucia of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the Church is a divine warning against the suicide of altering the faith, in her liturgy, her theology and her soul . . . I hear all around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the Church, reject her ornaments and make her feel remorse for her historical past.” (Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pius XII, The Secret Still Hidden, p. 31)

“[The Third Secret] has nothing to do with Gorbachev. The Blessed Virgin was alerting us against apostasy in the Church.” (Cardinal Silvio Oddi, The Secret Still Hidden, p. 42)

“If ‘in Portugal the dogma of the Faith will always be preserved,’ . . . it can be clearly deduced from this that in other parts of the Church these dogmas are going to become obscure or even lost altogether. Thus, it is quite possible that in this intermediate period which is in question (after 1960 and before the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary), the text makes concrete references to the crisis of the Faith of the Church and to the negligence of the pastors themselves . . .” (Father Joaquin Alonso, The Secret Still Hidden, p. 35)

These clerics would have no reason to lie about a great apostasy in the Church. On the other hand, those overseeing such a catastrophic situation - especially the reigning popes - would obviously be most reluctant to reveal a message that would broadcast to the world that they were blatantly ignoring the Blessed Virgin’s warning and leading the Church astray. All of them fully understood that the teachings of the Second Vatican Council were a radical departure from the traditional Catholic Faith.

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The following are some conversations with Fr. Malachi Martin who had read the Third Secret of Fatima. The first interview was with Mr. Bernard Janzen of Triumph Communications:

Janzen: In our discussion earlier, you just touched on the subject of Satan’s assault on the papacy. Perhaps we could have a brief discussion about that.

Fr. Martin: […] what I think is fatally necessary for every Catholic to know, and that is the fate of the papacy and the coming stress and danger that we shall be without the strength of the papacy.

Janzen: Is it ever possible that the cardinals at a future conclave could elect a heretical pope?

Fr. Martin: [brief pause over the sensitive nature of the question] You know…they have elected men in the past who had heretical ideas. Two or three. They have never elected yet an apostate. An apostate that has rebelled against the very fundamental of faith and rejected God and Christ. We have apostates now who are papabili [men who could be elected pope]. Yes, we could have an apostate. But in that day, then we are into something terrible. We’re into something which, Bernard, is something that, if you think on it, in full knowledge of the meaning of your terms, is nightmarish. It would test the faith of St. Catherine of Sienna. It would test the faith of the greatest saint. It would try the patience of Job. It would be a black day; a day on which you can clothe every window in black and put out the lights and dress in sackcloth & ashes and pray that you’re spared because your faith is going to be battered to pieces…if that happens, because then, they have the prize, and everything goes underground. And we are indeed on our way to becoming what Paul VI, in his misery, called, in 1978, an infinitesimally small part of humanity. Completely marginalized and pushed to the side and forgotten as a quaint group of people as interesting as Tibetan astrologers on a modern campus. - “The Kingdom of Darkness” 1992

Fr. Malachi Martin Interview with Art Bell on May 4, 1998:

Fr. Martin: The prophecy of Fatima is not a pleasant document to read – not pleasant news. It implies – it doesn’t make any sense unless we accept that there will be, or that there is in progress – a wholesale apostasy amongst clerics and laity in the Catholic Church, that the institutional organization of the Roman Catholic Church – that is, the organization of parishes, dioceses, archbishops and bishops and cardinals and the Roman bureaucracies and the chanceries throughout the world – unless that is totally disrupted and rendered null and void, the third secret makes no sense, and number two, the other salient characteristic about it is that it means intense suffering for believers.

Fr. Malachi Martin Interview with Art Bell on July 13, 1998 (Anniversary of the Third Secret of Fatima):

Bell: Alright, here we go. Just a couple of things I want to quickly read. One from a friend in Australia, who says, “I had a Jesuit priest tell me more of the third secret of Fatima years ago in Perth. He said, among other things, the last pope would be under control of Satan. Pope John fainted thinking it might be him. We were interrupted before I could hear the rest.” Any comment on that?

Fr. Martin: Yes…uh…it sounds as if they were reading – or being told – the text of the third secret.

Bell: Oh my.

Fr. Martin: It sounds like it. But it’s sufficiently vague to make one hesitate. It sounds like it.

Bell: Father, is there any circumstance under which you can imagine, that you would feel free to reveal the secret?

Fr. Martin: Yes. Yes. If there was a total collapse at the center.

Bell: And you anticipate that, don’t you?

Fr. Martin: I anticipate it as a possibility, Art. I can’t predict, but I anticipate it as a possibility, certainly, yes. I do.

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“Fr. Martin personally confirmed to me in 1997 that the pope who will lead the apostasy in the Church will be a heretic and an antipope.” – Fr. Paul Kramer; Facebook; May 2016

“The apostasy of the city of Rome from the vicar of Christ and its destruction by Antichrist may be thoughts so new to many Catholics, that I think it well to recite the text of theologians of greatest repute. First Malvenda, who writes expressly on the subject, states as the opinion of Ribera, Gaspar Melus, Biegas, Suarrez, Bellarmine and Bosius that Rome shall apostatize from the faith, drive away the Vicar of Christ and return to its ancient paganism. Then the Church shall be scattered, driven into the wilderness, and shall be for a time, as it was in the beginning, invisible hidden in catacombs, in dens, in mountains, in lurking places; for a time, it shall be swept, as it were from the face of the earth. Such is the universal testimony of the Fathers of the early Church.” – Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, The Present Crisis of the Holy See, 1861, London: Burns and Lambert, p. 88-90, p. 79

Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, who read the Third Secret, made reference to one of its themes during an allocution to the members of the Marian International Academy he declared, “It suffices to cast a rapid glance at what is happening at this moment in the world, in order to recognize that without the intervention of the Mother of all mercy near the All-Powerful, the world risks becoming pagan once more, a paganism more deplorable than the first paganism, because it is aggravated by apostasy. We are witnessing a veritable deluge of sins, a deluge which leaves behind it a nauseating quagmire, infected by immorality, lies and blasphemy…” – December 15, 1960

“Due to the rampant injustice and abuse of power, we have reached a compromise with atheistic materialism [Communism], a denial of the rights of God. This is the punishment foretold at Fatima… All the priests who support the possibility of a dialogue with the negators of God and with the Luciferian powers of the world [Freemasonry] are mad, have lost their faith, no longer believe in the Gospel! In so doing they betray the word of God, because Christ came to bring on earth perpetual covenant only to men of heart [good will], but did not join with the men thirsty for power and dominion over the brothers… The flock is dispersed when the shepherds ally with the enemies of the Truth of Christ. All the forms of power made deaf to the will of the authority of the heart of God are rapacious wolves that renew the passion of Christ and make the Madonna shed tears …” - Padre Pio, 1963; In a public admonition to his spiritual sons amidst the Second Vatican Council.

“The Blessed Virgin was alerting us against the apostasy in the Church. I would not be surprised if the Third Secret alluded to dark times for the Church: grave confusions and troubling apostasies within Catholicism itself…If we consider the grave crisis we have lived through since the Council, the signs that this prophecy has been fulfilled do not seem to be lacking…” – Cardinal Silvio Oddi, March 17, 1990

“I cannot reveal anything about what I have learned at Fatima about the Third Secret, but I can say that it has two parts: the one concerns the Pope. The other, logically – although I should say nothing – should be the continuation of the words: ‘In Portugal, the dogma of the Faith will always be preserved.’” – Father Joseph Schweigl, 1952 (P.P Pius XII sent him to interrogate Sr. Lucia); Frère Michel de la Sainte Trinité, The Whole Truth About Fatima: The Third Secret, Vol. III, p. 710, p. 337-338

“I believe that there is a connection between that which is announced in the first part of the Secret, which concerns wars and sufferings which would be everywhere, and the second part which concerns the persecutions and a type of breakdown of the faith. Because where the ellipsis (the three dots, “…”) was placed, it means “Here is the third part, which is not revealed” and then the conclusion “In Portugal the dogma of the faith will always be preserved etc.” This suggests to me that there is a relationship between faith and the third part of the Secret. Therefore, it is something that relates to the Church. It is some kind of universal crisis which affects the whole Church and all of humanity.” – Father Jose dos Santos Valinho (nephew of Sr. Lucia)

“Having reached the end of our inquiry, we are able to discern, with near certainty, the essential elements of Our Lady’s final secret: While ‘in Portugal, the dogma of the Faith will always be preserved,’ in many nations, perhaps in almost the entire world, the Faith will be lost. The pastors of the Church will fail gravely in the duties of their office. Through their fault, consecrated souls and the Faithful in great number will let themselves be seduced by pernicious errors spread everywhere. This will be the time of the decisive battle between the Blessed Virgin and the devil. A wave of diabolical disorientation will be hurled over the world. Satan will introduce himself even to the highest summit of the Church. He will blind the minds and harden the hearts of pastors. And God will deliver them to themselves as a chastisement for their refusal to obey the requests of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This will be the great apostasy predicted for the ‘last times’; ‘the False Lamb’ and ‘False Prophet’ will betray the Church to the profit of ‘the Beast,’ according to the prophecy of the Apocalypse.” – Frère Michel de la Sainte Trinité, The Whole Truth About Fatima: The Third Secret, Vol. III, Conclusion, p. 576

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