Confession

This is the first of a three part series:

My first thought when Benedict XVI resigned was that God would not let him live long.  I based this consideration on my study of Fatima over the past twelve years.  The Vatican then announced that Benedict would wear white and I immediately thought that he is the 'Bishop dressed in white'.  I confess that I thought that this statement solved a great mystery.  In one of her writings published by the Vatican as the Third Secret  Sister Lucy describes her vision or a vision of her cousin Jacinta that a "Bishop dressed in white', we had the impression that it was the Holy Father,  passes through a big city half in ruins and he prayed for the souls of corpses he met on the way.  He was killed by a group of soldiers".  Fatima scholars have always wondered why Lucy just didn't say the Holy Father.  This seemed to me like a realistic solution but in reality prophecies are not that clear until they are history and this seemed a little too easy to be true although there is still a slim chance that Benedict XVI is the "Bishop dressed in white". The 'party line' of the Vatican is that John Paul II was the bishop in the prophecy.  The pope is killed by soldiers with many dead bodies on a hill.  John Paul was shot in 1981 by a single gunman in St Peters Square and lived for twenty five additional years.

In 1931 Pius XI never responded to the request of Our Lord to consecrate Russia and if he did we would have a period of peace according to  Our Lady of Fatima.  Once the Nazi took over Austria in 1938 at the start of  World War II  Pius XI died in early 1939.  Bishop De Silva held the true Third Secret of Fatima from 1944-1957 when the secret was sent to the Vatican.  A few months later the Bishop was dead.     Pius XII received the Third Secret in 1957 and refused to open it.  He died in 1958.  On March 9, 2004 Pope John Paul II sent the cornerstone of the tomb of Peter to Fatima as directed in what we believe  might be the true Third Secret.  He died the next year.  Benedict XVI devoted all of his priestly life to changing the Catholic Church to fit his beliefs. He was a leader at Vatican II to diminish the role of Mary in the Church and almost succeeded to the delight of his Protestant comrades of having Her thrown out of the Church her Son established. His biggest opposition came from the true messages of Fatima which Ratzinger was very successful in covering up and minimizing over the decades. Very few Catholics today have even heard of Fatima or they buy the 'party line' provided by the Vatican and endorsed by then Cardinal Ratzinger.  Ask most Catholic today what is the first message of Fatima.  They would probably guess 'say the rosary.'  No the first message is 'sinners go to hell' which will be news to many Catholics today.  Benedict XVI did however say on his 2011 trip to Fatima that 'We would be mistaken to think that Fatima prophetic message is complete.'  The question is did he pass on his true knowledge of Fatima to Pope Francis when they met last month?  Is now his time to answer to God for his actions?

Homer Sweeney

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