Fatima and John XXIII

It was fifty years ago this last July 13 the 45th anniversary of the three seers third apparition with the Blessed Mother at Fatima that I was within about twenty feet of John XXIII as he blessed the faithful while being carried on his gestatorial chair through St Peters Basilica.  The new book by Christopher Ferrara False Friends of Fatima would not be able include John XXIII on a list of false friends because the Time Magazine 1962 Man of the Year made no secret of his disdain for Fatima as evident by these decisions:

In the summer of 1959 in anticipation of the Third Secret of Fatima being revealed in 1960 the bishops of Italy consecrated their country to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.  Thousands joined the processions throughout Italy carrying the statue of Our Lady of  Fatima   When the procession reached Rome, John XXIII embarrassed Our Lady by remaining silent and ignoring the celebration.

In late 1959 John XXIII  read the Third Secret in private and then chose to disobey the wishes Our Lady of Fatima by refusing to reveal the contents to the world.

John XXIII  brokered the "great deal" that was the Vatican-Moscow Agreement.  The Vatican agreed not to criticize Communism at Vatican II in exchange for Russian Orthodox to be able to observe the proceedings. This agreement was a complete denial of the Fatima message and in the opinion of many eliminated any chance of consecrating Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.  It also meant that the council could not condemn Russia for the many atrocities including the mass murders order by Josef Stalin  that took millions of lives.  Since Vatican II pretended that these horrors never happened  it is just as easy to imagine that the hammer and sickle never flew on top of St Peters.

John XXIII was not the first pope to protect Communism. In September 1942  being well aware of the brutalities of  'Uncle Joe' and after the first two parts of the Fatima Secret had been made public, Pius XII said, "At the request of President Roosevelt, the Vatican has refrained from all polemics against the Communist regime . . . May God grant that the free world may not have to regret my silence one day!"     The results of WWII are history with Communism taking over nearly half the world spreading 'the errors of Russia' just as Pius XII feared and Our Lady of Fatima warned.

In 1931 Msgr Eugenio Pacelli the future Pius XII made an astonishing prophecy when he said, "I am worried by the Blessed Virgin's messages to Lucy 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. . ."  John XXIII  opening speech at the Council was a complete denial of the message of Fatima ,  "We feel we must disagree with those prophets of gloom, who are always forecasting disaster, as though the end of the world was at hand."  This set the tone for the conclave that confirmed the prophecy of Pacelli, rejected  the message of Fatima, eliminated the Holy Rosary and nearly expelled the Mother of God from the Church her Son created to the delight of Her enemies.

When doing research one will read that John XXIII was beloved for his evident warmth and kindness.  It will be harder to discover that he eliminated saints such as St Philamena "Patroness of the Living Rosary" from the Calendar of the Saints.  According to Fatima author Mark Fellows, Pope John was the Pope who single-handedly rehabilitated Communism, discredited Fatima and used deceitful methods to bury the Third Secret.  In the light of Fatima, he was the Pope of the Apostasy.   He was Beatified on March 3, 2000.

Homer Sweeney

False Friends of Fatima

I have just completed reading Christoper Ferrara's new 180 page book False Friends of Fatima. If you like long answers this book would be of great interest even though in my opinion it includes some very questionable facts, assumptions and conclusions regarding the history of Fatima. On the other hand you're not one for names and details the false friends of Fatima can be identified in three words. . .The Catholic Church.

Homer Sweeney

Vatileaks

The 'Vatileaks' scandal regarding crimes, money laundering and fraud is another case illustrating how one sees cardinals oppose cardinals and bishops against other bishops as prophesied by Our Lady in the Message of Akita on October 13, 1973.  Sadly traditional Catholics are not immune from the work of the devil and are pitted against each other in regards to the true mass, the legitimacy of the pope and role of the Blessed Virgin.

Homer Sweeney

Christ Cathedral

The fifty year old Chrystal Cathedral  will now be known as Christ Cathedral in the Diocese of Orange County, California.  Renovations will start in July 2013 and take about a year to complete so it can be used for Catholic services. It was announced that the Cathedral will have a central alter most likely a table, a Bishop's Chair displayed prominently and a tabernacle some place in the Cathedral. 

Christ Cathedral will have an ecumenical dimension so that other "Christian" communities can identify with  so we can be sure that there will not be statues of Blessed Virgin or other saints.   It is not known if the Cathedral will have a permanent crucifix displayed, a confessional or Stations of the Cross.

Homer Sweeney

The Progressivist Parish

The recent TIA article regarding post-Conciliar Catholicism at Christ the King in Pleasant Hill, California is a perfect illustration of what Sister Lucy of Fatima meant when she told Fr Fuentes, "the devil wishes to take possession of consecrated souls.  He tries to corrupt them in order to lull to sleep the souls of laypeople and thereby lead them to final impenitence..."   She also warned all of us in the same interview published in 1957,   "Father, we should not wait for an appeal to the world to come from Rome on the part of the Holy Father, to do penance. Nor should we wait for the call to penance to come from our bishops in our diocese, nor from the religious congregations.  No!...Now, it is necessary for each one of us to begin to reform himself spiritually.  Each person must not only save his own soul but also all the souls that God has placed on our path."

Homer Sweeney

Cardinal Confirms Prophecies

"The secular Clergy will leave much to be desired because priests will become careless in their sacred duties." These are words of Our Lady of Good Success who also prophesied that in the 20th Century "Innocence will almost no longer be found in children, nor modesty in women, and in this supreme moments of need of the Church, those who should speak will be silent."  These prophecies were confirmed by Cardinal Dolan of New York in a recent article published in the New York Times and other places on the internet. The Cardinal  admitted that the Church himself included, failed to teach the faithful Catholic teaching on contraception and so "forfeited the chance to be a coherent moral voice when it comes to one of more burning issues of the day." He made no mention of sorrow or grief for the potential  millions of souls that have been lost because being a Modernist like most of the leaders in the Church believes in universal salvation which completely rejects the message of Our Lady of Fatima when she told the three children, "You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go." 

 Jesus Christ established His Church so that we may obtain heaven and avoid the fires of hell. It changed with  Vatican II when Paul VI said "the Church is to help man build his human habitat, his human paradise on earth.. ."    Today the ultra liberal Catholic Church is more of a socialist political organization that believes all will be saved because God is too kind to condemn  people  to hell.  The message of Our Lady of La Salette strikes a different tone. "Woe to priests, and to persons consecrated to God, who by  their infidelities and their evil life are crucifying my son anew!  God will strike in an unparalleled manner.  Woe to the inhabitants of the earth!  God will exhaust His anger, and no one will be able to escape so many evils at once. "The heads, the leaders of the people of God, have neglected prayer and penance, and the devil has darkened their minds; they have become those wandering stars which the ancient devil will drag with his tail to destruction."

Sister Lucy of Fatima alerted us about church leaders when she told Fr. Fuentes in a startling 1957 interview,  "Father, we should not wait for an appeal to the world to come from Rome on the part of the Holy Father, to do penance.  Nor should we wait for the call for penance to come from  bishops in our diocese, nor from the religious congregations.  No!... Now it is necessary for  each one of us to begin to reform himself spiritually.  Each person must not only save his own soul but also all the souls that God has placed on our path."

Homer Sweeney

Sources:
Words Spoken by Mary at Fatima
Crossing the Desert - Malachi Martin
Fatima in Twilight - Mark Fellows
Internet - Article on Cardinal Dolan
The Message of Our Lady of LaSalette
Our Lady of Good Success





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Learning from History

In 1917 the Vatican started on a course of  'compromise and conciliation' a new policy called Ostoplik, 'Opening of the East' which history has proven to be a devastating disaster. Russia in 1920 became the first country in the world to legalize abortion and during the next decade the atheist government killed 60 million of their own citizens.  In the early 1930's Pius XI ignored the offer of supernatural help from Our Lady and then in 1937 said, "Venerable Brethren, that the faithful do not allow themselves to be deceived!  Communism is intrinsically perverse and on one who would have Christian civilization may collaborate with it any undertaking whatsoever." The Popes, Cardinals and Bishop for the past 75 years have not followed Pius XI advise in fact many now serve as the  right arm of political parties.

Homer Sweeney