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The secret of The Secret.

It’s out!  Fr. Zuhlsdorf watched Cardinal Bertone on Italian television tonight, displaying the envelopes containing the Third Secret of Fatima, showing on camera the written text, and explaining that the sheet on which Sr. Lucia had written was folded in fours, which may have misled people into believing there was just a short written text, or something to that effect.  (A few priests and religious have actually devoted their life to trying to figure out what the secret could be  - haven’t spiritual writers cautioned about undo curiosity about stuff like that?)  Whatever.  It is not the DaVinci Code here.

Get a grip!

A Cardinal of the Catholic Church is NOT going to go on public televsion and lie to the world about “The Secret”.  To imagine some cover-up by the Church, the Pope, and the Cardinal in the first place is absurd.  The people who promote these conspiracy theories and imaginings are out of line.  What they do is instill mistrust of the Holy Father and the Church.  They foment derision and division amongst the faithful.

What exactly is it that these people think is being covered up?  In short, many believe Our Lady foretold the disintegration of the Church after Vatican II.  For instance, they insist, it foretold of a Masonic riddled hierarchy, which dismantled the liturgy and opened the Church to ecumenism, preparing the world for a one world religion and the anti-Christ - hence these people believe it is this “they” want covered up.  Gosh - I hate to break it to them, but we all know and have witnessed the division and confusion in the Church - for several decades now - it hasn’t been much of a ”secret”.

Fr. Zuhlsdorf concludes his post with this comment:

“Of course what was seen on TV tonight doesn’t really resolve anything.  Still, some one bent on saying that there is more to the secret will have to explain how what Card. Bertone showed on TV was inadequate proof.” 

I say, in the end, it doesn’t really matter.  The essential elements of the message of Fatima were revealed long before 1960.  The requests of Our Lady are well known, she revealed what was necessary for the faithful which would aid in our sanctifcation and salvation.  The “Third Secret” was for the Holy Father in the first place, and up to him to disclose it or not, and John Paul II decided to reveal it.  He did!

And another thing.

This is one of the reasons why people ignore the Fatima message in the first place, because of all the nut-jobs associated with “the cult”.  Even when I was little, Blue Army people floated around in blue suits and dresses and chapel veils, looking like overly pious, scared-to-death people, certain the world was going to end the next day.  Not a few of them may yet be found in the more extreme Sede/Trad movements of today. 

That’s all. - as Miranda would say.