WILL THE WORLD WAKE UP IN TIME?
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WILL THE WORLD WAKE UP IN TIME?
THE FATIMA CRUSADER WILL THE WORLD WAKE UP IN TIME? http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf ISSUE 111 • WINTER 2015 Beginning 2015: Risk of Nuclear War Rising Daily! By James Hanisch A recent headline in the leftist British daily newspaper, The Independent, reads: “Risks of Nuclear War Rising.” As the article explains, citing a recent statement issued by the European Leadership Network (a multi-national body of former defense chiefs including John McColl, former NATO Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe; and General James Cartwright, former Vice-Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff), “More than 120 senior military, political, and diplomatic figures from across the world have warned [that] urgent action is needed to minimize the risk of a nuclear war.”1 How urgent? Many analysts agree that the danger of a major war erupting now is greater than it was in the Cold War era. “The World is at a dangerous crossroads,” writes another journalist. “There has been a breakdown in East-West diplomacy coupled with extensive war propaganda. In turn the United Nations has turned a blind eye to extensive war crimes committed by the Western military alliance.”2 This journalist continues: “America is on a war footing. … We are not dealing with a Cold War. None of the safeguards of the Cold War era prevail.” The World Stage Continues To Unravel “If you wonder,” writes Robert Parry, “how the world could stumble into World War Three — much as it did into World War One a century ago — all you need to do is look at the madness that has enveloped virtually the entire US political/media structure over Ukraine, where a false narrative of white hats vs. black hats took hold early and has proved impervious to facts or reason.”3 2 The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf L’OSSERVATORE DI FATIMA SPECIAL EDITION November 2014 At Strasbourg EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CAN STOP WORLD WAR III NOW! Holy Father, Consecrate Russia as Requested by Our Lady “ Now is the time to obey the request of Our Lady of Fatima to consecrate Russia to “ Her Immaculate Heart. The ONLY way to STOP ALL WARS. “Make it known to the Holy Father that I still await the Consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart. Without this Consecration, Russia cannot be converted, nor can the world have peace.” (Our Lady of Fatima to Sister Lucy) Reported in the Italian Bishops Conference’s publication, Il pellegrinaggio delle meraviglie, Rome, p. 440. Father Gruner travelled to Strasbourg, France in November 2014, to explain to the Members of the European Parliament (on the same day that Pope Francis also addressed them) that the Consecration of Russia by the Pope and all the Catholic bishops of the world is the ONLY way to avoid World War III. Pictured above is the cover of a special edition of L’Osservatore di Fatima printed by The Fatima Center for this historic occasion, and distributed to the MP’s, their staff, and attending journalists. In a war between Russia and the U.S., Father stressed to the Members of the E.U. Parliament, Europe will be the main battlefield. http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf Internationally acclaimed journalist John Pilger explains: “The suppression of the truth about Ukraine is one of the most complete news blackouts I can remember. The biggest Western military build-up in the Caucasus and Eastern Europe since World War Two is blacked out. Washington’s secret aid to Kiev and its neoNazi brigades responsible for war crimes against the population of eastern Ukraine is blacked out. Evidence that contradicts the propaganda that Russia was responsible for the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner is blacked out. … “Many in the Western media have worked hard to present the ethnic Russian population of Ukraine as outsiders in their own country, almost never as Ukrainians seeking a federation within Ukraine and as Ukrainian citizens resisting a foreign-orchestrated coup against their elected government.”4 Pilger concludes: “The world is facing the prospect of major war, perhaps nuclear war — with the United States clearly determined to isolate and provoke Russia and eventually China.” In the meantime, he adds, “This truth is being turned upside down and inside out by journalists, including those who promoted the lies that led to the bloodbath in Iraq in 2003.” We are now, Pilger argues, in “a new and dangerous Cold War,” complete with the same journalistic “smear and scare campaign of the kind I grew up with during the first Cold War. … What the Russian President has to say is of no consequence; he is a pantomime villain who can be abused with impunity.” Further Encirclement and Intimidation of Russia The United States Congress recently enacted a bill, the Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014 (HR 5859 and S. 2828), authorizing yet more sanctions against Russia, as well as additional overt lethal military assistance to Ukraine. Signed into law by President Obama on December 18, 2014, the new sanctions on Russian companies and individuals went into effect in coordination with similar measures by the European Union and Canada. At the same time, President Obama also issued an Executive Order banning the export of goods, technology, and services to the Crimea Peninsula. The Ukraine Freedom Support Act authorizes sanctions on Russian weapons exports and oil production imports, as well as on the financial institutions which facilitate these transactions. Also targeted is the 4 The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf Russian energy giant Gazprom if it is deemed to be withholding significant gas supplies from specified states. The Act also authorizes weapons transfers to Kiev. The American business journal Forbes sees the new Act (passed without debate on mere voice votes in both houses in a “lame duck” session of Congress)5 as utterly dangerous to American interests, encouraging only retaliation from Russia and making diplomatic resolutions to the Ukraine crisis less feasible: “[O]n Thursday in the midst of negotiations to avoid another government shut-down, both houses of Congress rammed through new sanctions against Russia, the misnamed ‘Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014’. “Indeed, the House version, H.R. 5859, was introduced earlier the same day and approved by a sparse crowd late at night. The Senate legislation, S. 2828, passed on a voice vote. … “Congress appears determined to turn an adversary into a forthright enemy, and to encourage retaliation against more significant American interests. … [T]he provisions in this bill will make it all the more difficult to find a negotiated settlement to the Ukraine crisis, or to find a way to salvage any form of productive U.S.-Russia relationship. No wonder Congress didn’t want to debate it openly.”6 A Declaration of Cold War During the week before this legislation was enacted, the U.S. House of Representatives also passed a Resolution (#758) strongly condemning President Putin for his supposed policy of aggression against neighboring countries, and accusing him of pursuing aims of political and economic domination. The House Resolution also indicts Russia with the deaths of the 298 civilians aboard Malaysian Flight MH-17, as well as of the 4000 or more Ukrainians killed in the country’s eastern-region conflicts, echoing the baseless and discredited propagandistic Western media lies. In the same vein, the Resolution brazenly referred to Chapter Five of the NATO Treaty (which requires all NATO members to come to the military assistance of all others), suggesting that U.S. leaders intend to invoke the NATO collective security doctrine in initiating a military confrontation with Russia. The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 5 It is precisely this provision of NATO alliances which threatens to escalate any small skirmish in the region into an uncontrollable World War, and yet Washington leaders such as Senator Bob Corker (the chief sponsor of both the present Act and the earlier proposal entitled “The Russian Aggression Prevention Act of 2014”) continue to push for NATO partner and ally status for former Soviet states such as Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia — states which Russia cannot possibly allow to be militarized by NATO forces. Summarizing the intent of the Resolution (which passed almost unanimously, at 411-10), Dr. Paul Craig Roberts says: “Washington wants to include the former Russian provinces of Georgia and Ukraine in NATO, something that Russia cannot accept. … The House Resolution calls on Obama to arm Ukraine with US weapons so that Ukraine can conquer the separatist provinces and take back Crimea.”7 “Does Congress understand the dangers of inviting conflict with nuclear-armed Russia, especially in this critical region not far from Moscow?” asks Jane Orient, M.D., President of Physicians for Civil Defense.8 Truly, we can only wonder at the present course of events. Daniel McAdams (executive director at the Ron Paul Institute) calls the Resolution an effective declaration of Cold War against Russia — and truly, it reads like a declaration of war. A sample of the document will give the reader an idea of the gravity of the present crisis: “Whereas the Russian Federation has subjected Ukraine to a campaign of political, economic, and military aggression for the purpose of establishing its domination over the country and progressively erasing its independence; … “Whereas Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a civilian airliner, was destroyed by a Russian-made missile provided by the Russian Federation to separatist forces in eastern Ukraine, resulting in the loss of 298 innocent lives; … “Whereas the Russian Federation invaded the Republic of Georgia in August 2008, … [and] continues to subject the Republic of Georgia to political and military intimidation, economic coercion, and other forms of aggression in an effort to establish its control of the country and to prevent Georgia from establishing closer relations with the European Union and the United States; … and Continued on page 47 6 The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf The Little Flower, St. Thérèse, teaches us that no little act of charity or sacrifice for the Glory of God is ever too small. Before St. Thérèse died she said: “I will spend my Heaven doing good on earth.” She has brought many souls to the Faith and strengthened the Faith of the lukewarm and pious alike. St. Thérèse, pray for us and send us a rose! “I will send down a shower of Rose Petals from Heaven.”...St. Thérèse You Too Can Send Roses From Heaven You can help spread Our Lady of Fatima’s Urgent Message of Hope and Peace throughout the world, even after God calls you to your eternal reward. You know that Millions of souls will be lost if Our Blessed Mother’s requests are not heeded and the Consecration of Russia is not done as She requested. For the sake of those souls, as well as your own, we beg you to remember Our Lady’s Apostolate in your will. MAKING A BEQUEST FOR THIS IMPORTANT WORK IS EASY For more information, call toll-free 1-800-845-3047 or write us at the address found on the inside back cover. Or e-mail us at [email protected] There is no obligation! http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf ON THE BRINK OF WAR: Why FATIMA Is Absolutely More Urgent TODAY! Father Nicholas Gruner, B.Com., S.T.B., S.T.L., S.T.D. (Cand.) A s Catholics faithful to Jesus Christ and to the Law of the Gospel — the first law of which is charity, which “rejoices in the truth” — we must seek, we must believe, we must promote, and we must defend the truth. Deceivers are all around us today. In this deceitful age (which could be the time predicted in Sacred Scripture when even the elect would be deceived, if that were possible – Matt. 24:24) we need to keep our eyes on the Catholic Church approved prophetic Message of Fatima. Even though the Fatima prophecies were made in the 20th Century, we must still hold them in high regard today. As Pope Benedict XVI said on May 13, 2010, “He deceives himself who thinks the prophetic mission of Fatima is concluded.” Prophecy’s function is to remind and to guide the faithful as to what they must do, at the present time, 8 in order to save their souls. The prophetic Fatima revelation is the answer to the vast number of souls being lost in our time (as Our Lady of Fatima made known), and to the looming threat of a nuclear war. If Only We Will All Wake Up in Time! If only we will wake up to the dangers outlined in the book, Only She Can Help Us! Evil Forces Are Driving the World Toward War and also in the article “Risk of Nuclear War Rising Daily!” beginning on page 2, we will realize that no mere human efforts can change our present course. But Our Lady has made available to us a supernatural means for doing so. We must implement the means which She has given us which, as She promised, will save many lives and souls and bring all mankind a long period of peace. We all need to step back and look at the situation in the world today in a larger context than the daily news gives us. We all need The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf to realize that we are standing on the verge of what could be the final disaster for the vast majority of mankind living today. We are being led into a MAJOR war — tragically, a war that is desired not only by the devil, but even by the powerful men who direct world affairs (to the extent that God allows), and who, like the devil, envision the enslavement of mankind under a New World Order. It is no accident that the world’s situation continues to worsen. Clearly, crises continue to arise and continue to escalate, by the purposeful actions of world powers. Witness the recent (July 17, 2014) heartless murder of 298 people, including 80 children, flying on the Malaysian Airlines flight (MH-17) crossing over Ukraine. The civilian plane was intentionally shot down by military gunfire. Some nation or other’s military was behind those terrible murders. It becomes clearer every day, as time passes and more facts emerge, that some nation or other’s government wants to take the conflict between Russia and the West over Crimea and the ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine to an open shooting war between Russia and the U.S.A. Recall the fact (which The Fatima Crusader called attention to in Issue 109, page 45) that in the Maidan Square protests in Kiev (in February 2014), snipers on the building tops were shooting at both parties — police and protestors alike — purposely escalating the conflict. We must also remember that the protests, the shootings and surrounding events resulted in the coup d’etat against the legitimate Ukrainian government. We Are Being Driven to War The world is being intentionally driven to more and greater conflicts, more and greater wars. It is not a matter of wild or baseless theorizing to say this — it is an officially recognized and acknowledged fact. In recent decades, world leaders have repeatedly made plans for war and used the media to stir up a popular appetite for war, and deceived even the vast majority of the public about the case for war, knowing full well all the while that they had no grounds for war at all. As the reader will see in Part I, Chapter 2 of the book, Only She Can Help Us! (see Special Report on page 12 of this issue), many damning facts of this kind (in our times) have now come to light through the declassification of various official United States documents. This is the shocking picture that has emerged from the now-public facts regarding the 1962 Operation The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 9 Northwoods and the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of August 1964 (which was used to precipitate direct U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War), as well as from the U.S. Congressional Record (in 2007 House Resolution 625), in which President Bush was censured for his false charges against Saddam Hussein (which led to the Iraq War). The next major war, which clearly is very close, could well be more devastating for the whole world than anything the human race has ever experienced as you will read in the book, Only She Can Help Us! — and more terrible than any of us can imagine. More Unfolding Events Since the time of the book’s (Only She Can Help Us!) writing, events have continued to unfold in regard to the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH-17. Andrei Karaulov, a high-profile Russian journalist, in an Autumn 2014 feature on the Moscow Channel 5 “Moment of Truth” program, has claimed to bring even more details to light about the perpetrators of this crime, including the name of the man who “pulled the trigger” on those 298 innocent lives. Four Ukrainian military jets with tail numbers 06, 07, 08 and 33 of the 229th squadron, Karaulov claims, intercepted the passenger plane. Lt. Col. Dmitro Jakazuz, piloting 10 an SU-25 with tail number 08, shot the Boeing 777 down and has been in hiding in the United Arab Emirates since that day. Without a truly proper and thorough investigation of the disaster and a transparent publication of the evidence — particularly all the black box data, all the Kiev control tower recordings on that day and all the U.S. satellite images of flight MH-17 — we will hear only the banter of accusations and counteraccusations. Yet, the Russian government is the only nation so far that has produced cold, hard evidence to convincingly disprove any accusations against it. But, in the meantime, Russia is demonized and punished by the West as if it had been proven guilty of this terrible war crime. We need to use our voices to speak up, and to insist upon an impartial, thorough, complete investigation into the most recent casus belli (provocation for war) – the deliberate murder of 298 passengers and the destruction of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17. The public must be allowed to know all the facts. Another Western trend, as described in the book (Only She Can Help Us!), has been to steadily increase the militarization of NATO countries near Russia’s borders, including the construction of antiballistic missile stations. While The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf supposedly defensive in nature, these stations are in fact viewed by Russia as an intolerable threat. The same missiles housed in these stations which might be used as defensive interceptors can also be used in a first-strike offensive against Russia, delivering a virtually unstoppable close-range nuclear payload into the heart of Russia. I thank my friend James Hanisch for drawing the facts together for us – in his recent book, Only She Can Help Us! – in a way that allows us to see plainly what the distortions and omissions of the mainstream media have obscured. I also thank him for his article starting on page 2 of this issue, which was written after his recent book, and which brings us up to the beginning of 2015. Things cannot continue to go on as they are, indefinitely. The world is on the edge of something momentous, whether for good or ill — either the promised Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, or the final descent into World War III. We are very near to the end of our course, one way or the other. The Real Point We need to wake up to the danger. We need to realize that whoever started, whichever country is most guilty, is not the major point. The real point is that if we do not – by our prayers, our penances and our petitions and even our publicity – bring about the Consecration of Russia in time, then we are doomed. We must act now, and quickly, to honor Our Lady of Fatima’s requests (see Part II of the book, Only She Can Help Us!, as well as the articles in this issue on page 12 and on page 16. Obedience to the Message of Fatima is our only hope and our only solution. Above all, what is needed is the Pope’s and the Catholic bishops’ obedience to God’s command to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the solemn and public manner specified by Our Lady of Fatima. Our time is running out. We Are Expected To Do Our Part! Our Lord expects us to do our part in acting for Our Lady’s honor and for our own preservation by using the moral influence of whatever station each of us has in life, as well as our prayers, to bring about the Pope’s obedience. We must pray our Holy Rosary every day, asking for Our Lady’s protection on our families, on our neighborhoods and parishes, on our friends and co-workers, on our cities and our whole nations. And we must also pray and insist that the Pope and the bishops of the Catholic Church obey Our Lady of Fatima before it is too late for all of us.| The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 11 “Only She Can Help Us!” “Evil Forces Are Driving the World Toward War” The following outline is a summary of a new book by James Hanisch published by The Fatima Center, Only She Can Help Us! This 120-page book analyzes a wealth of behind-the-scenes news overlooked by mainstream media outlets, pointing to an imminent break-out of the Third World War. The book also explains in detail (with new, original material by Father Gruner) Our Lady of Fatima’s request for the Consecration of Russia — the only solution to this looming tragedy. A Fatima Center Special Report Part I The Imminent Danger of World War III Chapter 1 The First Act of World War III? The Murder of 298 People • It seems that the destruction of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 on July 17, 2014 was intended to provoke a war, or at least an escalation of tension between NATO powers and Russia over Ukraine. to the • C o n t r a r y unsubstantiated allegations of recent months from U.S. and UK leaders that the eastern Ukrainian civilian militia destroyed MH-17 with a Russian-supplied BUK M1 12 surface-to-air missile, the only real facts available indicate that the plane was shot down by a military aircraft (therefore not by the Eastern Ukrainian citizens militia who have been resisting the foreign coup de etat and which has no air force). • Russia’s well-reasoned, detailed, evidence-based response to the accusations of its involvement and responsibility in the disaster has been largely ignored by Western leaders and media. • Internationally respected journalists including Robert Parry, John Pilger, Paul Craig Roberts, and Gabor Steingart have publicly castigated their The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf It appears from the damage inflicted on the cockpit panels (see photo above as well as photos on page 40) of the Malaysia Airlines flight 17 (MH17) that a military fighter jet fired directly on the pilot of the Malaysia Airlines plane with a 0.30 caliber machine gun. Reporter Alex Lantier of OpEdNews calls this discovery “a powerful accusation, not only against the Ukrainian government, but against Washington, Berlin, and their European allies ... These forces now stand accused not only of stoking an explosive political and military confrontation with Russia on its border with Ukraine over the MH17 crash, which threatenes to erupt into nuclear war, but of provoking the confrontation through the cold-blooded murder of 298 people aboard MH17.” (Photo credit: BULENT KILIC/AFP/GETTY IMAGES) peers in the Western media for their reckless and unprofessional reporting in the aftermath of MH-17’s destruction by military forces. Chapter 2 War Fever: Important Historical Precedents • It is a demonstrated and widely acknowledged fact that governments of various nations have gone to great lengths to manage the public perception of their nation’s foreign policies and military actions. These governments have gone so far as to deceive and even murder (or allow others to kill) their own citizens in acts of war or falseflag acts of terrorism. They have done this in order to provide to their own citizens what seems at the time to be a justification for their government’s own hidden designs of aggression. • There seems to exist a pattern in recent U.S. history in the The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 13 triggering events that have led to war. In numerous instances, these triggering events — after having served to galvanize public opinion in favor of attacking other nations — have been discovered to be embellished with lies or even to have been entirely fabricated. • The undisputedly false pretenses used by the U.S. to justify its invasion of Iraq in March 2003, claiming that there was an imminent threat to the U.S. and to the world at large from active weapons-of-massdestruction programs in Iraq, form a tragic exemplar of the above pattern, and give solid grounds for suspecting that the U.S. government continues to the present day to attempt to deceive its own citizens and the world in this manner, by manufacturing occasions for war as often as these wars are desired. Chapter 3 Nuclear War: A Growing Prospect • Modern society is endangered not just by unprecedentedly powerful weapons, but most of all by an increasing abandonment of sound principles of international relations. • In our time, even in the once-Christian West, the deliberate killing of civilians is now considered a legitimate 14 wartime strategy. • Since the year 2002, the U.S. National Security Strategy (the “Bush Doctrine”) has claimed to exempt the United States from the principles of international law regarding non-interference and non-aggression, and from the necessity of demonstrating conclusive proof (as distinct from mere suspicion) of evil designs by other nations and/ or their governments before attacking them. • At the present juncture, U.S. military policies are recklessly provoking Russia itself to make a pre-emptive military response to the many indications that the U.S. intends to carry out a first-strike nuclear assault against Russia. Chapter 4 What Will Nuclear War Be Like? • There are now more than 17,000 strategic nuclear warheads in the world, each of which threatens to create a hell on earth almost beyond our ability to imagine or describe. • The burst or “pulse” of electromagnetic radiation (EMP) associated with thermonuclear explosions presents, in itself, an equally lethal threat. • There will be no winner in any nuclear war, since the The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf ensuing effects on the earth’s climate would cause a global famine, bringing self-assured destruction by starvation even to the “victorious” nation. • More dangerous than nuclear weapons themselves are the world leaders who do not appreciate these weapons’ potential lethality for the whole human race. Part II — The One and Only Solution Chapter 1 In Essence • Knowledge of and obedience to the whole Message of Fatima is our only hope for avoiding war, famine, and other punishments from God which our sins are bringing down upon us. • By the express words of Our Lord and Our Lady, we know without any doubt that our preservation depends upon the Consecration of Russia — that without the Consecration, we cannot have peace, and that if we do not have it in time, we will suffer unprecedented chastisements. • The Church’s response to Heaven’s command for the Consecration of Russia hinges on the Pope’s decision, and therefore also on our own efforts to move him to obey. Chapter 2 In Detail • The world is on the verge of an historic change, of either great tragedy, in a terrible disaster for all mankind, or of great joy, in unprecedented blessings of world peace. The latter (joyful) possibility will come about only through the Consecration of Russia by the Pope and Catholic bishops. • With good reason, Our Lady of Fatima has requested that Russia specifically, and only Russia, be consecrated to Her Immaculate Heart. • The adequate widespread promotion of the full Fatima Message together with the conversion and prayers of sufficient people — especially the reparatory devotions to the Immaculate Heart of Mary recommended in the Message of Fatima — would infallibly move Heaven even at this late hour to preserve us from the coming war. • Our time is now very short. If we continue our delay in obeying Heaven’s command for the Consecration of Russia, the looming tragedies of world war, the “annihilation of nations,” and the survivors “envying the dead” will overtake us and future generations will make a proverb of our generation’s folly.| The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 15 THE ONE and ONLY SOLUTION By James Hanisch and Father Nicholas Gruner I t almost defies comprehension that any political leaders could be nonchalant about the risk of taking their country into war — or worse, that anyone could desire to bring on a war — but in fact, war is at the heart of the program planned by secret societies to remake the world according to a New World Order. The wars of the past century in particular have enabled Freemasonry to accomplish their goals very rapidly, to overthrow the remnants of the Christian social order and to set up new (godless) programs and institutions throughout much of the world. The hellish nightmare of a World War has already twice been purposely inflicted on mankind,1 and a third such war now faces us as an imminent threat. Heaven 16 has provided us with a solution to this threat, but at the same time, God has laid down the conditions of that one and only solution: 1: God will grant this grace of world peace through the Immaculate Heart of Mary Peace in the whole world will come through the intervention of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and particularly through Her intervention on behalf of Russia. Our Lord has especially entrusted the salvation of Russia and the peace of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, as He told Sister Lucy in a revelation of 1936, and as Our Lady of Fatima revealed to the children seers: “[Our Lord said to me,] ‘The Immaculate Heart of Mary will save Russia. It has been entrusted to Her.’”2 The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf As Our Lady of Fatima explained to the children seers, “God wills to establish in the world the devotion to My Immaculate Heart.” When the Pope and, at his order, all the Catholic bishops of the world solemnly consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Our Lady’s incomparable merits will earn for the world two tremendous, historic graces: conversion and peace. When Sister Lucy asked Our Lord why He would not grant these graces to the world without the Consecration of Russia, He answered: “Because I want My whole Church to acknowledge that Consecration as a Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary so that it may extend Its cult later on and place the devotion to this Immaculate Heart beside the devotion to My Sacred Heart.” “A little while before going to the hospital, Jacinta [one of the seers of Fatima] said to me: ‘Tell everybody that God grants us graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary; that people are to ask Her for them; and that the Heart of Jesus wants the Immaculate Heart of Mary to be venerated at His side. Tell them also to pray to the Immaculate Heart of Mary for peace, since God has entrusted it to Her.’”3 2. By Means of the Consecration of Russia By Our Lord’s express command to His Church, this intervention is to be sought and obtained by a solemn and public ceremony of prayer and reparation, in which the Holy Father, in union with all the Catholic bishops of the world, The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 17 consecrates specifically Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, as was revealed to Sister Lucy in 1929: “Our Lady said, ‘The moment has come in which God asks of the Holy Father to make, and to order that in union with him and at the same time, all the bishops of the world make the consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart,’ promising to convert it because of this day of prayer and worldwide reparation.”4 3. By no other means than by the Consecration of Russia There is absolutely no other possibility for avoiding the coming wars than obeying Heaven’s command for the Consecration of Russia, as Our Lord told Sister Lucy in 1936, and as Our Lady emphasized again to her in 1952: “Intimately I have spoken to Our Lord about the subject, and not too long ago I asked Him why He would not convert Russia without the Holy Father making that consecration? ‘Because I want My whole Church to acknowledge that Consecration as a Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, so that it may extend Its cult later on, and place the devotion to this Immaculate Heart beside the devotion to My Sacred Heart.’”5 “Make it known to the Holy 18 Father that I still await the consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart. Without this consecration Russia cannot be converted, nor can the world have peace.”6 Moreover, we know without any doubt that in the end (possibly after great trials for the world, including the annihilation of various nations), the Pope and the bishops will obey Heaven’s command for the Consecration of Russia, and that the graces of conversion and world peace will follow, as Our Lady promised to the children seers in 1917, and as Our Lord confirmed to Sister Lucy in 1931 and again in 1936: “If My requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated. … In the end, My Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to Me. Russia will be converted, and a period of peace will be given to the world.”7 “[B]y means of an interior communication, Our Lord complainingly said to me: ‘They did not want to heed My request. Like the King of France they will The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf [Left] James Hanisch, author of Only She Can Help Us!, speaks to the media at our Rome press conference for release of the Italian version. [Right] Father Gruner also discussed and distributed copies of our Italian version of L’Osservatore di Fatima to the Press. See photo on page 3. repent and do so, but it will be late. Russia will already have spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The Holy Father will have much to suffer!’”8 “‘But my God, the Holy Father probably won’t believe me, unless You Yourself move him with a special inspiration.’ “‘The Holy Father. Pray very much for the Holy Father. He will do it, but it will be late! Nevertheless, the Immaculate Heart of Mary will save Russia.’”9 There is no contradiction in these revelations, which warn of possible disasters ahead (including even the annihilation of nations), while at the same time promising the final triumph of the Immaculate Heart. The question is purely one of timing: Our Lady’s triumph is sure “in the end.” Whether or not the world suffers another global war, further persecutions of the Church, and the annihilation of nations en route to Our Lady’s triumph depends on how long the Pope and bishops continue to delay their obedience to Heaven’s command for the Consecration of Russia. The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 19 If we do nothing, there is going to be a war and it is going to be nuclear. Do we want to stop the coming war and the annihilation of nations? There is one way, and one way only: the Consecration of Russia. But we’re not the Pope. What can we do? We need to realize first of all that our united voices have a great deal of moral authority, even if not de jure authority, within the Church. As members of a parish, members of a community, Members of Parliament, etc., we can powerfully petition the Holy Father to do what he needs to do. The message needs to be loud and clear: “Holy Father, we’re in danger! We want you to consecrate Russia!” You can stop the Third World War by signing such a petition and by your prayers, especially the Rosary, along with a sufficient number of others. How many others? God knows, but at some point it will be enough to draw a response from the Vatican. Our Lord is expecting us to do at least this much. | 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Footnotes: 1. Both Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (coauthors of the Communist Manifesto) wrote explicitly in 1848 about instigating a world war in order to further the “progress” of history toward the goals of Communism, and the highest ranking Mason, Albert Pike (author of Morals and Dogma of the 20 9. Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite) in 1871, called for three world wars that he estimated would be needed to completely dissolve all national sovereignties into a global collectivist state. (See Choosing Truth Ministries, Freemasonry On Trial, 2003 edition, Part Two, pp. 2223; http://www.pdfarchive.info/pdf/F/Fr/ Freemasonry_on_trial.pdf) For a detailed discussion of international bankers’ role in the orchestration and deliberate instigation of World War II, see Chapter 9 of Deirdre Manifold, Towards World Government, Canisius Books, Toronto, 2nd edition, 1993. Sister Lucy’s letter of May 18, 1936 to Father José Gonҫalves, cited in Frère Michel de la Sainte Trinité, The Whole Truth About Fatima, Volume II, Immaculate Heart Publications, Buffalo, New York, 1989, p. 631. Third Memoir; Fatima in Lucia’s Own Words, English translation by Dominican Nuns of Perpetual Rosary, Fatima, Portugal, 1976, p. 116. Manuscript from Sister Lucy’s journal, cited in Frère Michel de la Sainte Trinité, The Whole Truth About Fatima, Volume II, Immaculate Heart Publications, Buffalo, New York, 1989, p. 555. Sister Lucy’s letter of May 18, 1936 to Father José Gonҫalves, cited in Frère Michel de la Sainte Trinité, The Whole Truth About Fatima, Volume II, Immaculate Heart Publications, Buffalo, New York, 1989, p. 631. Emphasis added. Reported in the Italian bishops’ publication, Il pellegrinaggio delle meraviglie, 1960, p. 440. Cited in Frère Michel, The Whole Truth About Fatima, Vol. III, p. 327. Emphasis added. Spoken by Our Lady on July 13, 1917, within the context of the Great Secret of Fatima. Revelation of August 1931, recounted in a letter of May 18, 1936 from Sister Lucy to her spiritual director, Father José Gonҫalves, cited in Frère Michel de la Sainte Trinité, The Whole Truth About Fatima, Volume II, Immaculate Heart Publications, Buffalo, New York, 1989, p. 544. Sister Lucy’s letter of May 18, 1936 to Father José Gonҫalves, cited in Frère Michel de la Sainte Trinité, The Whole Truth About Fatima, Volume II, Immaculate Heart Publications, Buffalo, New York, 1989, p. 631. The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf Part III FATIMA: Roadblocks and Breakthroughs This article is a continuation of Part II from Issue 110 of The Fatima Crusader. The following is an edited transcript of part of Father Gruner’s opening-day speech at the recent FATIMA: The Path to Peace! Conference in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Father’s words have become more timely and urgent with each passing day, with the growing threat of a terrible major war breaking out at any moment. Will Catholics wake up to the truth of the world’s situation in time to prevent a nuclear holocaust claiming billions of lives? Our Lord warned against following highly placed religious leaders who are blind. Jesus tells us when the blind lead the blind, they both fall into the pit. It is time to use our God-given intelligence to see through the lies, half-truths, and misrepresentations used against the Message of Fatima — and to not be deceived by the slanders and detractions leveled against its messengers. You need to know the whole truth about Fatima … AND THEN TO ACT ON OUR LADY’S WARNING AND PROMISE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE! By Father Nicholas Gruner, S.T.L., S.T.D. (Cand.) Opposing the Truth or Heaven’s sake, don’t underestimate the danger and seriousness of this silencing of the Message of Fatima. And Heaven help the people in authority in the Church who have gone along with this crime, whether out of indifference or for the sake of preserving their careers – or even worse, because they are Judases, who are intentionally betraying Jesus Christ, Mary Most Holy, F and each one of us. One way to oppose the truth is simply not to speak about it. And in the hands of ill-informed or bad-willed priests and bishops, this can be a very powerful opposition to the truth. These very men, who are established as the public teachers in the Church, are (many of them) engaged in a program of criminal silence in regard to the Message of Fatima. And as I said, this has been part of the picture since 1960, when The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 21 by the Blessed Virgin’s express order the Third Secret was to be released. At that time, instead of being given Our Lady’s words, what we got was an anonymous press release from the Vatican saying that the Secret would probably never be released. The source of the press release went on even to cast doubt on the truthfulness of the seers. This insult to Our Lady will not be expiated until the Pope does a “mea culpa,” and publishes the entire Secret – which at this point will be a very painful affair for many of today’s churchmen, whose life’s work in the postConciliar Church is broadly condemned by Our Lady’s words in the Fatima Message in general, and especially in the Third Secret. Shooting the Messenger The Message of Fatima has gone through very bad times since 1960 – with some respite beginning in 1981, when John Paul II was shot on May 13th, the feast of Our Lady of Fatima. I started promoting Our Lady’s Message full-time in August of 1977, thirty-seven years ago now. I can tell you that I have experienced first-hand such roadblocks as I couldn’t have imagined, and that I wouldn’t have believed possible in the Catholic Church. 22 I guess the higher-ups who oppose Our Lady’s Message realized that I knew enough theology to see my way through some of the more obvious ploys that they’ve used with others. No superior has ever given me a direct order to stop promoting the Message of Fatima. They’ve often made it pretty clear that this is what they want, but they don’t dare give such an order. The Message of Fatima has been officially approved and endorsed by Church authority. No one can forbid me to promote it – or if someone were to try, I would ask him to put his order in writing, and then I would publish it along with my response. No one’s going to do that. Cardinal Sodano, as the Vatican’s Secretary of State, tried very hard to get rid of me and Our Lady’s Apostolate back in 1995. He used his influence over the Congregation for the Clergy to make things extremely difficult for me. One ruse which they attempted in order to stop me from speaking was to pressure my bishop (at that time, in Avellino, Italy) to order me to either be incardinated in another diocese, or to come back to live in Avellino. Of course, the bishop didn’t really want me there. My Italian wasn’t good enough for me to be useful The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf to him, and he would have been burdened with supporting me in their diocese for the rest of my life. It was the last thing he wanted, but he went along with those powerful Vatican bureaucrats who were pressuring him. So I found a number of bishops who were willing to incardinate me. As on a previous occasion, one bishop told me in person of his willingness to incardinate me. Two more bishops went so far as to give me written assurances of their intentions. But each of these three bishops started receiving the same signals from Cardinal Sodano and Cardinal Sanchez (at that time the Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy) – “Don’t take him. Don’t incardinate him.” Thus two of these bishops withdrew their offers. A Diabolical Trap It was a clever trap – diabolical, really. It was a complete inversion of the responsibility they had and a total abuse of the authority that they held in the Church. Just think about it: first they gave me a formal order, and then behind my back they did everything they could to prevent me from being able to obey it. Then they accused me of disobedience. I found a heroic bishop of a diocese in northern India, Bishop Rego. He wrote to the Bishop of Avellino to initiate the incardination process, but the Bishop of Avellino (still under pressure from the Vatican) wouldn’t allow my excardination! It was incredible. There he was giving me an order to transfer into another diocese, and then refusing to give me the documents to be able to carry it out. Such hypocrisy. I’ll tell you, the hypocrisy of the whole thing was really beyond anything I’d ever seen before. It forced me to undertake difficult and expensive legal wrangling in the ecclesiastical courts for years. You might think that things would be different in the Church than in civil courts, but in our days (when “the great apostasy in the [Catholic] Church will begin at the top,” as Cardinal Ciappi tells us is foretold in the Third Secret), ugly things can and do happen in the Vatican. I won’t mention here the names of any of the people directly behind these dishonest tactics used against me, but I think it’s important that you know what you’re up against if you’re on Our Lady’s side. And let me emphasize that all this resistance to my desire to promote the Message of Fatima was generated from the rather meager beginnings of Our Lady’s Apostolate – pretty tame material, as I look back The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 23 on it now. My troubles did not begin in 1995 – they began in 1980-81, when my Apostolate had only been in existence for five or so years, and had only a few thousand supporters. The point is that I didn’t start talking about the Consecration of Russia until the summer of 1982, after John Paul II made his first very public consecration of the world to the Immaculate Heart in May 1982, and I didn’t take on the Third Secret until after meeting Frère Michel in November of 1985. Before that time, I was just talking about the Message in its simplest terms: pray the Rosary, wear the Scapular, do your daily duty; Communism is evil, and the errors of Russia are spreading all around us. Even these more widely known parts of the Message were being fought against even then by high-placed Vatican officials – not by the Pope, but by people in his inner circle of advisors. Powerful Churchmen Oppose Our Lady’s Message We know that the Message of Fatima has been opposed from the very beginning – from Lucia’s mother (until the Miracle of the Sun), God bless her, the good woman, to the Masonic mayor of Ourem and the anti-clerical 24 press, as well as the Portuguese army. For many years, too, it has been opposed within the Church. I hope that you will all take an opportunity to read Chris Ferrara’s recent important book, False Friends of Fatima. It will open your eyes to the opposition to Fatima that exists to this day among the Catholic clergy, and even among lay people who falsely claim to be devoted to Our Lady of Fatima. Secretary of State Exercises Vast Power Within the Church Cardinal Bertone, the present Vatican Secretary of State, 1 figures prominently in Chris’ book. Many people don’t realize how much power the Vatican Secretary of State has within the Church, especially in terms of the day-to-day operations of all the various Congregations of the Roman Curia. Ever since the reorganization of the Vatican that took place in 1967, the Secretary of State has basically run the Church on a dayto-day basis. Everyone answers more or less directly to him, not to the Pope or to the Prefect of what used to be the Holy Office (now called the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith). The Secretary of State is in some ways today more powerful than The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf Pictured above is an example of what one person can do. Refusing to be daunted, Michael Lucci, five different times, maneuvered himself to an advantageous position near the Pope, speaking to him on two different occasions. He handed Pope Francis a leaflet which asked for the Consecration of Russia. As you can see, the Pope stopped to read it attentively. Faith the size of a mustard seed can do great wonders. the Pope himself. I remember writing to Pope John Paul II just after he was shot, in May 1981. I sent him a fifteen-page letter asking for his intervention against those Vatican bureaucrats who were persecuting me then. I sent it to a friend of mine, a Father McGee, who was serving as the Pope’s private secretary, and asked him to present it to the Holy Father. Well, I went to see Father McGee a few months later, in August, and I asked him, “Did you get my letter?” He said, “Yes.” And I said, “Did you read it to the Pope?” He answered: “Well, I read a good part of it. It was a long letter!” I was delighted at first, when he told me he had read it to the Pope. But then I asked him, “Where is the letter now?” And he said, “Well, I gave it to the Secretary of State.” I said, “Why did you do that?!” His answer amazed me. That was when I finally began to understand. He said, “He’s my boss!” That’s how it stands now in the Vatican. Even the Pope’s private secretary answers to the Secretary of State. The Secretary of State’s power is enormous. “The Nuncios Are Terrible!” I once asked a bishop in Brazil if he would help me out with my situation. He expressed a desire to help me, but he felt powerless to do so. He said to me, “You know, the nuncios are terrible!” That’s what he said to me – meaning, of The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 25 course, that the apostolic nuncios would block anything he might try to do for me, and might even bring his own position in the Church to a premature end. He wished me luck, and told me that he couldn’t do anything for me. The nuncios, of course, work directly under the Secretary of State. The Ongoing Disaster of June 26, 2000 Well, the good news is that Cardinal Bertone will be retiring, as of October 15th (2013). He has been the enforcer, so to speak, for the past 13 years, of the Party Line advanced by Cardinal Sodano on June 26, 2000, in the booklet The Message of Fatima (TMF – a hornets’ nest of halftruths and outright falsehoods). Then-Archbishop Bertone, as Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, went on record in the same document claiming that “there is only one manuscript” of the Third Secret (that being the 64line text describing the Vision of a “Bishop dressed in White”); that the Consecration of Russia is over and done with, saying that John Paul II’s 1984 consecration of the world “corresponded” to what Our Lady wished; and therefore that “any further discussion or request [for the Consecration of 26 Russia] is without basis.”2 Fraudulent Letters He cited, as proof of this nonsense, a letter supposedly written by Sister Lucy. Except that he doesn’t give us a copy of the letter – neither its full text, nor a photo image of any part of it. Nor does he tell us to whom the letter was addressed. All he tells us is that in a “letter of 8 November 1989,” Sister Lucy “personally confirmed that this solemn and universal act of consecration corresponded to what Our Lady wished: ‘Yes it has been done just as Our Lady asked, on 25 March 1984.’” We don’t need to see the letter, however, because we already know it to be a fraud. That letter was sent by someone purporting to be Sister Lucy to a Mr. Walter Noelker. It was one of five notorious forgeries produced between August 1989 and July 1990, which had been debunked by the French religious of the CRC (La Contre-Réforme Catholique) under the Abbé Georges de Nantes, almost as quickly as they were produced.3 That Archbishop Bertone had the temerity to trot out one of these long-since-discredited fraudulent letters is as amazing as it is inexcusable. It speaks volumes that this was the only The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf scrap of evidence he could muster to substantiate his position – especially given that Sister Lucy was still alive at the time, and could have been present to personally confirm all of the Archbishop’s claims, if they were indeed true! Those five letters were all clumsy frauds, each containing factual errors that Sr. Lucia would never have made. In this Noelker letter, for instance, the author refers to Paul VI’s visit to Fatima on May 13, 1967, saying that he performed a consecration of the world at that time. He did no such thing, beyond blessing some Pilgrim Virgin statues, and the real Sister Lucy was present at that visit. She would not have made that gross error. both in his writings5 and in personal confrontations with the persons – churchmen, in fact – whom he publicly accused of producing these forgeries, or of publishing them as if authentic. They never denied his face-toface accusations.6 The Bishop of Leiria-Fatima, Msgr. Alberto Cosme do Amaral, organized an “International Pastoral Conference” to take place in the Paul VI Center in Fatima on the days preceding the October 13th anniversary pilgrimage in 1992. On Sunday, October 11th, the second-to-last day of the conference, Father Luis Kondor (then Vice-Postulator for the beatification of Blesseds Francisco and Jacinta) presided over a session in the main amphitheater in which Father Forensic Experts Robert Fox (then publisher of Prove the Letters Are Forged The Immaculate Heart Messenger) One of these five original gave a presentation about his fraudulent letters had been work in the so-called “Fatima sent to Father Kramer (who has Family Apostolate.” often collaborated with me at the False Fables of Fatima Center), and we submitted Father Fox this letter to a forensic expert. He formally examined the signature A discussion-session followed on the letter, comparing it to the presentation, during which Sister Lucy’s known writing, and a man in the audience said: he pronounced it to be a forgery.4 “I know that you, Reverend Father Fox, have announced in Frère François de Marie des the U.S.A. that the Consecration Anges of the Contre-Réforme of Russia was accomplished Catholique publicly challenged on March 25, 1984, and in so the authenticity of these letters, The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 27 doing you have appealed to the alleged testimony of Sister Lucy. Now Fatima experts, such as Brother François of St. Mary of the Angels, have demonstrated that the alleged oral declarations of Lucy which you have reported, were nothing more than fables. Five letters of Sister Lucy in which it is said that the Consecration was done, have been propagated since August 1989. Now these letters have been denounced as fakes. They are apocryphal. Brother François has published proof of this and no one has contradicted him.”7 Father Fox made no reply to this! Instead, Father Kondor made a brief statement regarding some historical details concerning the Third Secret. Then Frère François went to the microphone and addressed both priests: “Allow me to introduce myself: Brother François of St. Mary of the Angels. It seems to me, Reverend Father, that there are some inaccuracies in your account of the Third Secret. … As for the accusations concerning the apocryphal [fake] letters of Lucy, I am prepared to justify them or if need be, to retract them if my criticisms of those letters are refuted in a decisive manner.” 28 No Answers to the Accusation Neither priest had a word to say. They had just been publicly accused of propagating fraudulent, lying letters attributed to the seer of Fatima, and they could not utter a single word in their own defense. The session was hastily closed, as though nothing had been said!8 Father René Laurentin, the world-famous Professor of Mariology, attended the closing session of the conference on Monday morning, October 12th. After the session, as the amphitheater was emptying, he saw Frère François, and asked him: Father Rene Laurentin [FrL]: What are you doing here? Did they allow you to participate? Frère François [FF]: Yes, and yesterday in the presence of Fathers Fox and Kondor, I was able to denounce publicly the apocryphal [fake] letters of Lucy. [FrL]: What did they answer you? [FF]: Nothing. Fat her Laurentin was astonished. Then, with Father Laurentin still present, Frère François approached Msgr. Luciano Guerra [M.L.G.], the rector of the Fatima The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf What is the secret of Father Gruner’s perseverance through the obstacles thrown against him for spreading Our Lady of Fatima’s urgent Message? Very simply, he does as the Blessed Mother asked. Pictured on the left, he attentively takes care of Her Image and to the right, in return, Our Lady attentively watches over his shoulder. If only the Holy Father would just trust in Our Lady and be attentive to Her requests of him. Shrine (whom Frère François had accused in his writings of being the actual author of the five fraudulent letters), and challenged him: Frère François [FF]: Can you swear to me on the Gospel that you did not draft the apocryphal [fake] letters of Lucy? Msgr. Guerra [M.L.G.]: No, I don’t wish to, I cannot now, not under these conditions. [FF]: Internal criticism of those letters proves that they could not have been written by Sister Lucy. [M.L.G.]: I will not discuss it with you. You have no heart! [FF]: If you show me my errors, I will retract them. [M.L.G.]: You have no heart! Father Kondor [FrK] joined the group, and Frère François [FF] addressed him as well, extending to him a copy of his latest CRC article: [FF]: Do you know that I accuse you of being implicated in the fabrication of the apocryphal [fake] letters of Sister Lucy? [FrK]: “What letters?” (he said, laughing. ) Frère François showed them to him, and Father Kondor began The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 29 to read them. Frère François interrupted him: [FF]: But you are very well acquainted with them since you have fabricated them. Father Kondor made no attempt to deny the charge. Finally, as they were leaving the Paul VI Center, they met Father Fox [FOX], who greeted Frère François: [FOX]: “I love you in the Lord.” Frère François answered: [FF]: They delivered my articles to you this morning? [FOX]: Yes, I know Father de Nantes. [FF]: I am talking to you about the articles denouncing the fabrications and apocryphal [fake] character of the letters you have published. I am awaiting your retraction.9 Silence Says Everything No response. Nothing. Not from Msgr. Guerra, nor Father Kondor, nor Father Fox. Their silence says everything. Those typewritten, computergenerated letters had already been publicly and utterly discredited for ten years when Bertone wrote his Introduction to TMF, citing the fake Noelker letter as evidence of his claims. They had even been discussed as 30 forgeries in editorials published in the daily newspaper of Coimbra, Diario de Coimbra.10 They were a public laughing-stock, an embarrassment, exposed both in print and in person, in the face of their real authors, at a public conference put on by the Bishop of Fatima. These were public events with an abundance of witnesses, matters of public record that took place at their own conference. We ourselves, at Our Lady’s Apostolate, had also published the evidence that the letters were frauds, as early as 1989, and we continued to publish that evidence many times in the interim before June 26, 2000.11 No Denial, No Refutation! We published these facts again and again, while Father Fox and Father Kondor were both still alive, and not once did they ever try to challenge us, either to deny or refute what we had said. They had every opportunity to do so if they had wanted to. So it’s no wonder that Archbishop Bertone was not willing to give us all the details about this “letter of 8 November 1989.” He could not cite the entire letter or venture to name its recipient, because that letter was known throughout the world to have been a hoax – a The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf shameless deception. Neither did he dare to bring Sister Lucy out of her prison of formal silencing to personally and publicly either vouch for what he was claiming, or to acknowledge herself as the author of that disputed letter. (As Chris Ferrara points out in his book The Secret Still Hidden, Bertone had another opportunity to settle this obvious and burning question of the authenticity of the Noelker letter, when he went to see Sister Lucy in Coimbra again on November 17, 2001. The whole purpose of his second interview was to bolster the sagging credibility of TMF, but again for some reason, he neglected to ask her to verify that she had indeed written that letter. Or if he did ask her, he must not have gotten the answer that he wanted.) When Cardinals Sodano and Ratzinger and Archbishop Bertone published their booklet, The Message of Fatima (TMF), on June 26, 2000, they included fully a dozen photo-reproductions of original sources cited, but they give us no glimpse of this crucial document, which Bertone advanced as his sole piece of evidence for a ludicrous contention that puts all of our lives and souls at risk. Thirteen Years of Lies Honestly, it was all so clumsy and obvious to anyone who bothered to verify Bertone’s sources, but he pursued these lies for the next thirteen years. He is finally leaving his public office now without a scrap of personal credibility. It is sad, really, for him and for Our Lady, and for all mankind. This has been another major roadblock facing Her Message for years on end – the intentional hiding of facts and documents from the faithful by high-ranking Vatican bureaucrats, who carry out their schemes with mental reservations, half-truths, and downright falsehoods. These men are leading whole nations to annihilation, and millions of souls to eternal ruin. We Need the Consecration of Russia We have published proofs of our position about the Consecration of Russia time and again, but you don’t need to read The Fatima Crusader to know that Our Lady is still awaiting this Consecration. You can look anywhere in the world and see that we do not have peace. Yet Our Lady promised that the whole world would have peace if Russia were properly consecrated to Her Immaculate The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 31 Heart. The U.S. Congress is being asked today [September 9, 2013] to authorize President Obama to start bombing Syria. Syria has made no attacks against the United States – it is in no way a threat to the United States – and yet they are debating and voting on deploying their tremendously destructive ships and planes and bombs against Syria. or in Tuy (where the formal request for the Consecration of Russia was given to Sister Lucy), or wherever the Holy Father chooses to perform the Consecration. Or, if some bishops prefer (and the Pope allows it), they could organize public and formal ceremonies of their own to take place on the same day and at the same hour in their own cathedrals. The World’s Descent Into Barbarism It’s hard to believe that these things are happening, that anyone would consider doing such things, but it’s true. This is the stage we have come to in the world’s descent into barbarism. There are so many people who are hoping and pushing for war. I just hope and pray that finally someone – maybe someone in this room whom Our Lady has brought here – can reach the leaders of the world and of the Church with this very simple Message from Our Lady: The Holy Father simply has to command the bishops to join him in consecrating not the world, but Russia, to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, on the same day and at the same hour as the Pope’s own Consecration ceremony. The bishops could come and personally join the Holy Father in Rome, If there were some few bishops who refuse to participate – and I believe that there would be very few, if any, who would refuse – they would not present any problem to the fulfillment of Our Lady’s request. She specified that all the Catholic bishops of the world are to perform the Consecration in union with the Pope. 32 The Pope Can Command the Bishops To Join Him The Holy Father could decree in the same order in which he announces the Consecration, that any bishop who neglects to join him would be immediately and automatically excommunicated for his disobedience. Any such men would then no longer be members of the Catholic Church at the time of the Consecration, and Our Lady’s request would have been fulfilled to the letter. All the Catholic bishops would have participated. The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf We must also remember, as Sister Lucy explained in a March 21, 1982 interview with Archbishop Portalupi (the Papal Nuncio to Lisbon) and Bishop do Amaral of Leira-Fatima, if some bishops were truly prevented by illness or imprisonment from joining in the act of Consecration, this would not compromise the “moral unanimity” of the Catholic bishops’ participation.12 Now some people might find such a thing difficult to imagine. It’s not, really. This afternoon we’ll hear Dr. Bruce Walters’ presentation about his book, Russian Sunrise. It’s a book written about the future. As such, it is a story of how the Consecration of Russia could possibly take place. The details of its fulfillment may be different from how it actually takes place. But we do know that in just one day in the future this act of obedience – this act of consecration – will take place. This book demonstrates very well what has to be done and how easily it could be done – how realistic Our Lady’s request is. Me. Russia will be converted, and a period of peace will be given to the world.” Notice Our Lady’s words: “In the end” – that is, after some delay – “My Immaculate Heart will triumph.” This triumph has three stages. The first stage is Our Lady’s triumph over the Holy Father himself, who will finally render his overdue obedience to Her command: “The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to Me.” The second stage will follow as a direct result, a recognizable effect of the first stage, when Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart has been fittingly honored: “Russia will be converted.” Finally, the third stage follows – again, as a manifest result of the prior stage, when Russia will have ceased spreading her errors and fomenting wars and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father, and will instead be a positive force for Jesus and Mary and for spreading the true Faith throughout the world. Like St. Paul,13 who had been the greatest persecutor of the Church, but became (as a “vessel Our Lady’s of election”) the greatest of all Personal Guarantee the Apostles, so too will Russia’s We have Our Lady’s guarantee conversion be instrumental in that it will happen: bringing about the third stage: “In the end, My Immaculate “A period of peace will be given Heart will triumph. The Holy to the world.” | Father will consecrate Russia to The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 33 Footnotes: 1. Cardinal Bertone’s forced retirement took effect on October 15, 2013 (approximately one month after this speech was delivered), at which time Archbishop Pietro Parolin succeeded him as Vatican Secretary of State. 2. Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, The Message of Fatima, June 26, 2000. 3. The first, dated August 29, 1989, addressed to Maria de Belém was demonstrated to be a fraud as early as October 1989 (cf. CRC #257, p. 2); the second, dated November 8, 1989, addressed to Walter M. Noelker, was debunked in May 1990 (cf. CRC #264, p. 2); the third, dated November 21, 1989, addressed to Father Paul Kramer, was debunked in March 1990 (cf. CRC #262, p. 2); the fourth, not dated, addressed to the magazine 30 Days, was debunked in May 1990 (cf. CRC #264, p. 7); the fifth, dated July 3, 1990, addressed to Father Robert Fox, was debunked in October 1990 (cf. CRC #268, p. 13). During the same time period, The Fatima Center was publishing translations of Frère François’ articles for millions of Englishspeaking readers. See footnote 11. 4. See Fr. Kramer’s article, “Update on the Plot to Silence Our Lady,” The Fatima Crusader, Issue 63, p. 11 ff, http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr63/ cr63pg11.asp. “We submitted one of the typewritten letters to a forensic scientist, accredited as an expert by the courts of law in Canada. His verdict was that the typewritten letter was not signed by the same person who signed the documents in Sr. Lucy’s memoirs.” 5. Frère François’ denunciations of these letters were first published in a series of articles in the French journal, La Contre-Réforme Catholique, Issues 257, 262, 264, and 268, October 1989 October 1990; and subsequently in his book, Fatima: Joie Intime, Événement Mondial (Fatima: Intimate Joy, World Event), 1991, pp. 240 (note 1) and 376 ff; republished in English in four volumes by Immaculate Heart Publications, 34 Buffalo, NY, 1993: Book III (Fatima: The Only Way to World Peace), p. 155 (note 28), and Book IV (Fatima: Tragedy and Triumph), pp. 190-195, 218-221. 6. See The Fatima Crusader, Issue 100, p. 53; the article begins on p. 3. 7. Frère François de Marie des Anges, “A False Lucy Substituted for the True?”, The Fatima Crusader, Issue 44, pp. 36 ff, http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr44/ cr44pg36.asp. 8. Ibid. 9. Frère François de Marie des Anges, “A False Lucy Substituted for the True?” The Fatima Crusader, Issue 44, pp. 36 ff, http://www.fatimacrusader.com/ cr44/cr44pg36.asp, reprinted from the October 1992 CRC. See also Father Nicholas Gruner, “Following Our Lady’s Path to Her Triumph,” The Fatima Crusader, Issue 100, pp. 50-53, http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr100/ cr100pg3.pdf. 10.September 14 and October 11, 1991. Cf. Frère François, Fatima: Tragedy and Triumph, pp. 194-195. 11.Cf. Frère François de Marie des Anges, Fatima: Tragedy and Triumph, Immaculate Heart Publications, Buffalo, NY, 1994, pp. 192-221; Frère François de Marie des Anges, “Nobody Pays Attention to Her Message,” The Fatima Crusader, Issue 43, pp. 22 ff, http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr43/ cr43pg22.asp; Frère François de Marie des Anges, “A False Lucy Substituted for the True?” The Fatima Crusader, Issue 44, pp. 36 ff, http://www. fatimacrusader.com/cr44/cr44pg36. asp; Frère François de Marie des Anges, “In Portugal, Anti-Fatima Forces Defeated in Propaganda Battle,” The Fatima Crusader, Issue 45, pp. 21 ff, http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr45/ cr45pg21.asp; Father Nicholas Gruner, The Divine Impatience, Immaculate Heart Publications, Buffalo, NY, 2000, pp. 77-78, 141, http://www.fatima. org/books/divimp/dipt3chap1.asp; “What The Wall Street Journal Didn’t Tell You” (transcript of a September 27, 1991 interview of Father Nicholas Gruner with Gustav Niebuhr of The The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf Father Gruner with some of the keynote speakers at FATIMA: The Path to Peace! Conference. From left, Michael Matt (“Will There Soon be Martyrs?”); Father Gruner; Christopher Ferrara (“True Friends, False Friends – The Secret Still Hidden.”); John Salza (“The EMP Threat as Revealed in the Third Secret.”); Robert Sungenis (“1981-2005: The Worst Period of War.”). You can view their speeches on fatima.org or buy your own DVDs of these and more of the vital talks. To order, see contact information on page 79. Wall Street Journal), The Fatima Crusader, Issue 38, pp. 5 ff, http://www. fatimacrusader.com/cr38/cr38pg5. asp; Father Nicholas Gruner, “Jesus Tells Us, ‘Make It Known,’” The Fatima Crusader, Issue 39, pp. 2 ff, http://www. fatimacrusader.com/cr39/cr39pg2.asp; Father Nicholas Gruner, “Jesus Said, ‘Make It Known to My Ministers…,’” The Fatima Crusader, Issue 46, pp. 2 ff, http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr46/ cr46pg2.asp; Father Joseph Martinez, “Has Russia Really Converted?”, The Fatima Crusader, Issue 37, pp. 10 ff, http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr37/ cr37pg10.asp; Coralie Graham, “Frère Michel Proves ‘Sister Lucia’s Letter’ Is a Fake,” The Fatima Crusader, Issue 33, p. 36, http://www.fatimacrusader.com/ cr33/cr33pg36.asp; Coralie Graham, “Update on Chronology of a Coverup,” The Fatima Crusader, Issue 37, pp. 29, http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr37/ cr37pg29.asp. 12.The details of this interview were made known to Father Pierre Caillon (the President of the Blue Army in France), who published them to the world. cf. Frère François, “The Requests of Our Lady of Fatima Are Being Deliberately Hidden,” The Fatima Crusader, Issue 31-32, pp. 28 ff, http://www. fatimacrusader.com/cr31/cr31-32pg28. asp. 13.It is not for nothing that God gave the “Great Sign” promised by Our Lady of Fatima, “a night illumined by an unknown light,” on January 25, 1938 – the feast of the Conversion of St. Paul! The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 35 Will Catholics Wake Up In Time? by James Hanisch I n June 2000, the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith published a booklet (misleadingly) titled The Message of Fatima [TMF], in which the Third Secret of Fatima was supposedly being disclosed in its entirety. “There is only one manuscript,” the Congregation’s Secretary, then-Archbishop Bertone, assured us, “which is here reproduced photostatically.”1 Archbishop Bertone’s claim that the Third Secret consists of only the portion which he published in The Message of Fatima [TMF] was a direct contradiction of the prior well-known admission by Father Joseph Schweigl (whom Pope Pius XII had sent to interview Sister Lucy about the Third Secret in September 1952) that the Third Secret has two parts, the most important being in Our Lady’s own words: “I cannot reveal anything of what I learned at Fatima concerning the Third Secret, but I can say that it has two parts: One concerns the Pope. The other, logically — although I must say nothing — would have to be the continuation of the words: ‘In Portugal, the dogma of the Faith will always be preserved.’”2 The manuscript published in June 2000 could well be said to concern the Pope. It was a description of a Vision given to the childrenseers, of “a Bishop dressed in White” who gave them “the impression that he was the Holy Father”; a Vision in which, too, the true Holy Father was seen fleeing past corpses through a half-ruined city and up a steep mountain, where (along with other bishops, priests, religious, and even laymen) he is killed by soldiers who fire a hail of bullets and arrows at him. 36 The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf This Vision (which includes not a single word from Our Lady), we were told by Archbishop Bertone, depicted the “tragic and cruel events” of the 20th Century, particularly the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in 1981. Thus (as we were conveniently assured in the same booklet (TMF), in a portion quoting Cardinal Sodano, then the Vatican’s Secretary of State) “the events to which the third part of the ‘secret’ of Fatima refers now seem part of the past.” Better still (as Archbishop Bertone observed in TMF), this publication of the Secret in the year 2000 had brought to an end that unfortunate “period of history marked by tragic human lust for power and evil”! How so? Pope John Paul II’s 1984 Consecration of the world “corresponded” to what Our Lady of Fatima requested. Demonstration of this, and of Archbishop Bertone’s assertion that “any further discussion or request [for the Consecration of Russia] is without basis,” was (according to Cardinal Sodano) “the successive events of 1989” which had led to the “fall” of various Communist regimes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The Cold War was over at last, and with it ended the threat of another World War. The only part of Our Lady of Fatima’s Message which “remains timely and urgent today,” Cardinal Sodano added, was not any prophetic warning contained in the Secret, but rather merely the perennial summons to “conversion and penance.” The Argument from Authority Many Catholics have accepted these claims, possibly because they feel that an implicit trust toward our Church leaders is an expression of loyalty to the Faith. Whatever their motives may be, it seems unlikely that these Catholics could have been persuaded by the document’s reasoning itself. Bertone and Sodano’s less-than-compelling argument might be summarized in this way: 1. Our Lady of Fatima promised that if Her requests were heeded, Russia would be converted and there would be peace. 2. A few high-ranking churchmen have declared that Our Lady of Fatima’s requests have been satisfied by John Paul II’s 1984 consecration of the world. 3. Therefore the events of the subsequent years (namely the fall of the Iron Curtain and the end of the Cold War, c.1991) represent the conversion and peace promised by Our Lady. The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 37 One has to wonder, will there ever come a point at which Catholics at large will begin to question this conclusion and to turn again to Our Lady of Fatima for Her proffered help, if they have not felt compelled to do so already? There are plenty of non-Catholics who are not afraid to admit that there is tremendous urgency in the world situation today (January 2015), with every human life on earth in the balance – a far different picture than that which Cardinals Bertone and Sodano would have us see. We are on the Path to Annihilation Thus in spite of Bertone and Sodano’s specious reasoning and Pope John Paul II’s 1984 consecration of the world, we remain on the path to the annihilation of nations, as Our Lady of Fatima has been warning us since 1917! It is as if Groucho Marx were to put on a Cardinal Bertone mask and demand, “Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?!” Certainly, the facts are entirely against the fantasies (or willful deceptions) published by Archbishop Bertone in The Message of Fatima (TMF). But Catholics should never have allowed that scandalous booklet to turn their minds away from the truth of Our Lady’s Message. In some matters, the argument from authority can be a sufficient basis for decision, but in itself it is truly not a logical demonstration of anything. Saint Thomas Aquinas describes the argument from authority as “the weakest form of argument.”3 In fact, it is often merely an invitation to trust someone else to do our thinking for us — a dangerous concession in any circumstances, but especially questionable in light of recent events, both on the world stage and within the Church. In any case, Cardinal Sodano in particular (who was discovered to have been covering up the scandals surrounding the disgraced founder of the Legionaries of Christ, the late Father Marcial Maciel, for decades until Pope Benedict overruled the Cardinal’s machinations and removed him from office)4 and Cardinal Bertone (who was publicly caught in a series of lies regarding the Third Secret of Fatima,5 and who is currently under investigation for financial misdealings,6 having also been removed from his administrative position in the 38 The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf Vatican bank after less than a year of his five-year term) are public figures who simply no longer inspire anyone’s trust. Moreover, in 2010, Pope Benedict stepped forward to publicly reverse and correct Bertone and Sodano’s false claims that the Third Secret of Fatima is irrelevant to our future. While en route to Fatima for the May 13th anniversary celebration, the Pope offered this comment to the press regarding the Third Secret of Fatima: “Beyond this great vision of the suffering of the Pope ... are indicated future realities of the Church which are little by little developing and revealing themselves.”7 “...as far as the novelty that we can now discover in this message, it is that: not only from the outside come the attacks to the Pope and the Church, but the sufferings of the Church comes right from the inside of the Church, by the sins committed inside the Church itself.” “We knew this already, but today we see this in the most horrifying way: that the greatest persecution against the Church doesn’t come from its enemies outside, but from the sins within.” Two days later, in his homily at the Mass in Fatima (addressing the 500,000 pilgrims in attendance as well as millions of live television viewers), Pope Benedict XVI affirmed even more strongly: “He deceives himself, who thinks that the prophetic mission of Fatima is concluded.”8 The next day’s headline in Il Corriere della Sera read: “The Fatima Prophecy Is Not Accomplished: There will be wars and terrors.” Another Approach In Logic and Mathematics, there is a method of inquiry called proof by contradiction, which establishes the truth of a proposition indirectly by demonstrating that it is impossible for the proposition to be false. In a proof of this kind, we begin with two assertions, one being the negation of the other. Properly phrased, only one of the two statements can be true, and one of them must be true. In a classic example dating Continued on page 42 The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 39 “The Truth Shall Make You Free” Your happiness, your freedom, even your very life may depend upon your knowing and acting on the contents of this book. We all need to know the truth about our situation. This book takes a bold look at the facts as they stand, without regard for what our fears and prejudices might lead us to prefer to believe. The thoroughly researched and documented presentation in this book will challenge many people’s most cherished illusions — illusions only recently formed through day-by-day media lies, as well as deep-seated illusions which have been nurtured from early youth as “urban legends” reinforced in our education systems. 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Continued from page 39 back to the ancient Greeks, Euclid began with the following pair of opposite assertions: Either there are infinitely many prime numbers, or there are not infinitely many prime numbers. For our present purpose, we could begin with the following pair of statements: Either Our Lady of Fatima’s request for the Consecration of Russia has been satisfactorily heeded, or it has not been satisfactorily heeded. The argument proceeds by first assuming the truth of either assertion. If this assumption leads to an absurdity or to a contradiction, then the other assertion is known to be true (since we found that we were wrong to assume that it was false). Let’s assume that the first statement is true, and see where this leads. 1. Our Lady of Fatima’s request for the Consecration of Russia has been satisfactorily heeded. 2. Our Lady of Fatima promised that when Russia is consecrated in the manner requested, a period of peace will be given to the world. 3. But at no time since 1929 when Our Lady made Her request — including the 30 years (!) since John Paul II’s consecration of the world in 1984 — has there been peace throughout the world, and in no sense do we have today any security from the threat of a nuclear Armageddon. 4. Therefore Our Lady of Fatima has not kept Her promise. WHICH IS IMPOSSIBLE! Therefore our assumption was false, and the opposite assertion must be true: Our Lady of Fatima’s request for the Consecration of Russia has not been satisfactorily heeded! Thus we remain today on a crash course with Our Lady’s dire prophetic warning: “If My requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated.”9 42 The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf WILL Catholics Wake Up IN TIME? The sins of the world are very great today, and these sins are drawing down upon us all a terrible punishment from God. This punishment is certain to continue along the lines indicated by Our Lady of Fatima until Her requests are heeded. But are we doomed to suffer these disasters? Is there nothing that we can do to prevent them? On the contrary, there is much that we can do, but our time is clearly now very short. God does not ask the impossible. Truly, the whole world is in need of conversion today (as Our Lord indicated when He taught Sister Lucy to pray for the conversion not only of Russia, but also of Europe and the whole world),10 but God does not require us to convert the world in order to prevent the terrible punishments spoken of by Our Lady. Our remedy is within our reach! Our Lady said: “[I]f people do not cease offending God, a worse war [than the then-present First World War] will break out during the reign of Pius XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign given you by God that He is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father. To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays.”11 Our Lord has told His “little flock”12 that, small as they are numerically, they are “the salt of the earth,”13 capable of preserving the whole of society from destruction in the same way that brine can preserve meat from decomposition. Given enough “good”14 salt, the meat is preserved. Similarly, given enough good Catholics — who are willing to respond generously to Our Lady’s requests for prayers, sacrifices and reparation — the world will be preserved. Our Lady did not say that it would be necessary to put an end to all of the crimes of the world in order to forestall the punishments that God was about to send. She said that it would be enough to prevent these punishments if some unstipulated but reasonable number of The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 43 the Catholic faithful would undertake to console the Immaculate Heart of Mary by the specific reparatory devotions which She named. There is nothing in this world more urgent for the physical preservation of our lives and the eternal salvation of countless souls (possibly including our own!) than applying ourselves to these two requests of Our Lady of Fatima, and urging and leading our fellow Catholics also to attend to these requests. We need to attach great importance to making the First Saturday Communion of Reparation on every First Saturday of the month, without fail. This devotion is more important than anything else that might come up in our schedules. We should also perform the full Five (consecutive) First Saturdays devotion at least once (consisting of Confession, Holy Communion, a 15-minute meditation on the 15 mysteries of the Rosary, and also praying a five-decade Rosary, each of these acts being performed with the special intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary). The other request — the Consecration of Russia by the Pope in union with all the Catholic bishops of the world — is not directly within our power to bring about, but by our prayers and petitioning we can bring about this great act of reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary as well. Sister Lucy has told us that the power of our daily Rosaries is such that there is no problem whatsoever that cannot be remedied by this devotion: “The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all, spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families, of the families of the world, or of the religious communities, or even of the life of peoples and nations, that cannot be solved by the Rosary. There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary. With the Holy Rosary, we will save ourselves. We will sanctify ourselves. We will console Our Lord and obtain the salvation of many souls.”15 In this same interview, Sister Lucy laid out very clearly what is at stake for us: 44 The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf Fatima Priest Proves Beyond Doubt... THE TRUTH CANNOT BE SILENCED! Father Gruner’s latest book release, Crucial Truths to Save Your Soul, is truly a great light in the darkness. Simply put, Father points the way to the truth about dogma, the papacy, infallibility and the Second Vatican Council. As Father notes: “Truth does not change!” After reading this book, one will not fall into the eternally deadly error of rejecting the light for the darkness. See page 80 to order your copy today! “Tell them, Father [Fuentes], that many times the Most Holy Virgin told my cousins Francisco and Jacinta, as well as myself, that many nations will disappear from the face of the earth. She said that Russia will be the instrument of chastisement chosen by Heaven to punish the whole world if we do not beforehand obtain the conversion of that poor nation.”16 But the only way to convert Russia is to have it consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the manner specified in the Fatima Message, in time. And in another place, concerning the First Saturday Communion of Reparation, Sister Lucy wrote: “Whether the world has war or peace depends on the practice of this devotion, along with the Consecration [of Russia] to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.”17 War or peace. It’s up to us to choose our future — and our children’s future — according to the clear terms of the definitive and prophetic revelation given by God for our time: the authentic Message of Fatima. | The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 45 Footnotes 1. Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, The Message of Fatima, “Introduction,” June 26, 2000; http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/ rc_con_cfaith_doc_20000626_message-fatima_en.html 2. Frère Michel de la Sainte Trinité, The Whole Truth About Fatima, Volume III: The Third Secret, Immaculate Heart Publications, Buffalo, New York, Revised Edition, 2001, p. 710. 3. St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Part I, Question 1, Article 8, Objection 2. 4. Cf. Edward Pentin, “The Allegation Against Cardinal Sodano: Calls for His Resignation Grow Amid Reports of His Connection to Multiple Scandals,” The Catholic World Report, May 4, 2011; http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/549/the_allegations_ against_cardinal_sodano.aspx 5. Cf. Christopher Ferrara, The Secret Still Hidden, Good Counsel Publications, Pound Ridge, New York, 2008, Chapters 5-11; see the complete text online at http:// secretstillhidden.com/book.html 6. Cf. Josephine McKenna, “Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone Reportedly Under Investigation, Denies Financial Wrongdoing,” The Huffington Post, May 21, 2014; http://www. huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/21/cardinal-tarcisio-bertone-vatican-bank_n_5367796. html 7. Christopher Ferrara, False Friends of Fatima, Good Counsel Publications, Pound Ridge, New York, 2012, p. 185 (emphasis added); Cf. Italian transcript by Paolo Rodari, http://www.corriere.it/esteri/10_maggio_11/vecchi-parole-papa_fa994a905ce9-11df-97c2-00144f02aabe.shtml 8. http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/homilies/2010/documents/hf_ben-xvi_ hom_20100513_fatima_en.html. (Emphasis added.) The Vatican’s English translation weakened the Pope’s statement dramatically, to read: “We would be mistaken [instead of “He deceives himself”] to think that…” But the Pope’s Italian original was very strong and quite clear: “Si illuderebbe chi pensasse che la missione profetica di Fatima sia conclusa.” 9. Apparition of July 13, 1917, recounted in Sister Lucy’s Fourth Memoir: Fatima in Lucia’s Own Words, English translation by Dominican Nuns of Perpetual Rosary, Fatima, Portugal, 1976, p. 167. Emphasis added. 10.In a letter of August 29, 1931 to her bishop, Sister Lucy recounted the following revelation which took place in the chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Rianjo, Spain: “As I was asking God for the conversion of Russia, Spain, and Portugal, it seemed to me that His Divine Majesty said to me: ‘You console Me a great deal by asking Me for the conversion of those poor nations. Ask it also of My Mother frequently, saying: Sweet Heart of Mary, be the salvation of Russia, Spain, Portugal, Europe, and the whole world. At other times say, By Thy pure and Immaculate Conception, O Mary, obtain for me the conversion of Russia, Spain, Portugal, Europe, and the whole world.’” (Frère Michel de la Sainte Trinité, The Whole Truth About Fatima, Volume II, Immaculate Heart Publications, Buffalo, New York, 1989, p. 543.) 11.Apparition of July 13, 1917, recounted in Sister Lucy’s Fourth Memoir: Fatima in Lucia’s Own Words, English translation by Dominican Nuns of Perpetual Rosary, Fatima, Portugal, 1976, p. 167. 12.Luke 12:32. 13. Matthew 5:13. 14. Mark 9:49; Luke 14:34. 15.December 26, 1957 interview with Father Augustin Fuentes, cited in Frère Michel de la Sainte Trinité, The Whole Truth About Fatima, Volume III, Immaculate Heart Publications, Buffalo, New York, 2001, p. 508. 16.Ibid., p. 505. 17.Letter of March 19, 1939 to Father Aparicio, cited in Frère Michel de la Sainte Trinité, The Whole Truth About Fatima, Volume II, Immaculate Heart Publications, Buffalo, New York, 1989, p. 273. 46 The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf Risk of Nuclear War Rising Daily Continued from page 6 “Whereas Vladimir Putin has established an increasingly authoritarian regime in the Russian Federation through fraudulent elections, the persecution and jailing of political opponents, the elimination of independent media, the seizure of key sectors of the economy and enabling supporters to enrich themselves through widespread corruption, and implementing a strident propaganda campaign to justify Russian aggression against other countries and repression in Russia, among other actions: “Now, therefore, be it resolved that the House of Representatives … “Condemns the continuing political, economic, and military aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova and the continuing violation of their sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity; … “Calls on the Russian Federation to reverse its illegal annexation of the Crimean peninsula, … “Calls on the President to cooperate with United States allies and partners in Europe and other countries around the world to refuse to recognize the illegal annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, … [and] to impose visa bans, targeted asset freezes, sectoral sanctions, and other measures on the Russian Federation and its leadership with the goal of compelling it to end its violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, to remove its military forces and equipment from Ukrainian territory, and to end its support of separatist and paramilitary forces; “Calls on the President to provide the Government of Ukraine with defense articles, services, and training required to effectively defend its territory and sovereignty; … “Calls on North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies and United States partners in Europe and other nations around the world to suspend all military cooperation with Russia, including prohibiting the sale to the Russian Government of lethal and nonlethal military equipment; [and] “Reaffirms the commitment of the United States to its obligations under the North Atlantic Treaty, especially Article 5, … which states that ‘an armed attack against one or more’ of the treaty signatories shall be considered an attack against them all,’ … and calls on all The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 47 Alliance member states to provide their full share of the resources needed to ensure their collective defense.”9 The Path to Armageddon The sum of December 2014’s legislation (both the Ukraine Freedom Support Act and H.R. 758) has been chilling. As one Russian journalist put it, the United States has taken a large step closer to all-out war with Russia: “Future historians — that is, assuming there are humans still around to contemplate history — may one day point to House Resolution 758 as the single piece of legislation that sparked a global conflagration between two leading nuclear powers.”10 Especially galling are the factual misrepresentations of the Resolution. Robert Bridge continues: “The opening paragraph of HR 758 accuses Russia of conducting an ‘invasion of Ukraine’ and violating its territorial sovereignty. … [Ron Paul has answered this charge:] ‘Surely with our sophisticated satellites that can read a license plate from space we should have video and pictures of this Russian invasion,’ Paul argued. ‘None have been offered. As to Russia’s ‘violation of Ukrainian sovereignty,’ why isn’t it a violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty for the US to participate in the overthrow of that country’s elected government as it did in February? “Indeed, as Ukraine was approaching open rebellion, US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and the US Ambassador to Ukraine were overheard in taped conversations bragging that the US spent $5 billion on regime change in Ukraine. They even mentioned the names of the individuals the US wants to see in leadership positions…. “Paragraph 13 of the document demands the ‘withdrawal of Russia forces from Ukraine’ even though not a shred of evidence has been produced to prove that the Russian army ever set foot in Ukraine. Further on, HR 758 urges Kiev to resume military operations against the eastern regions seeking independence, a move that will certainly exasperate East-West relations if it goes forward. “Paragraph 14 states that Malaysia Airlines flight 17, which went down in murky circumstances in eastern Ukraine, was brought down by a missile ‘fired by Russian-backed separatist forces in 48 The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf Rosary APOSTLES OF THE HELP BRING PEACE AND TRUTH TO THE WORLD! You can help educate those who are afraid, or reluctant, or unaware of the need to sacrifice and pray, not realizing that their freedom, homes, financial assets and even their lives may well be lost if Our Lady of Fatima’s Message is not heard and obeyed. 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Moreover, the preliminary report never says that a missile was responsible for bringing down MH17. “Paragraph 22 states that Russia invaded the Republic of Georgia in 2008. This is a blatant misrepresentation of the historical record since it is well known that Georgian forces launched a crack-ofdawn military offensive against South Ossetia, killing hundreds of civilians, as well as a dozen Russian peacekeepers. Yes, Russia chased the Georgian army back to the outskirts of Tbilisi before turning back, but what country would have done differently under similar circumstances? “HR 758 also calls on Russia ‘to reverse its illegal annexation of the Crimean peninsula, to end its support of the separatist forces in Crimea, and to remove its military forces from that region other than those operating in strict accordance with its 1997 agreement on the Status and Conditions of the Black Sea Fleet Stationing on the Territory of Ukraine.’ “This statement represents the falsification of history in an effort to pursue a political agenda. The people of the Crimean peninsula, under the threat of violence from government forces, independently called for a referendum to decide their sovereign status. Only after Crimea voted — overwhelmingly — to join the Russian Federation did the Russian Duma hold a vote on the issue. The entire process was done according to the dictates of international law. “There are many more such preposterous claims and dangerous demands in HR 758, yet the document has been greeted with a deafening silence in the United States by the corporate-owned media.” Paul Craig Roberts describes the new Resolution as a dangerous “packet of lies” reflecting an ideology of hegemony in Washington, the almost certain outcome of which will be war: “It’s just more propaganda. It’s no different from the lies they told about Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein and Assad and Iran. It’s the same lies they told when Georgia (provoked by Washington) attacked South Ossetia, and the Russians came in and pushed them back out. That was also said to be an invasion by Russia. Facts don’t 50 The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf matter to propaganda.”11 “No one should be surprised to see Washington … using the same propagandistic lies against Russia and Putin as were used against Iraq and Saddam Hussein, Libya and Gaddafi, Syria and Assad, Afghanistan and the Taliban, and Iran. … Washington knew that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction and no al Qaeda connections. Washington knew Assad did not use chemical weapons. Washington knew that Gaddafi was being set up with lies. Washington knows that Iran has no nuclear weapons. What was important to Washington was not the truth but the overthrow of these governments. … “Washington has made it completely clear that Russia can be part of the West only as a vassal state and not as a sovereign country with its own interests and an independent policy. Washington’s demand for hegemony does not permit the existence of other sovereign countries sufficiently strong to resist Washington’s will. As the ideology of hegemony has a powerful hold on Washington and is institutionalized in the neoconservative control of critical government offices and media, war is the almost certain outcome. … Washington is placing the world on the path to Armageddon.”12 Chilling International Relations President Putin has denounced the U.S.-led sanctions against Russia as illegitimate and illegal. Washington’s disregard for its own and international law, he adds, has made the United States into a lawless state that is a danger to the world.13 Commentators see indications in President Putin’s Address to the Russian Federal Assembly on December 4th that Russia is fed up with trying to reason with the West: “[T]he Kremlin has given up any hope of achieving anything through any kind of dialogue. From now on, Russia will mostly rely on unilateral actions. And since Russians never threaten, these actions will always come as a shock and a surprise to the Western plutocracies.”14 Responding to the passing of the Ukraine Freedom Support Act, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich castigated U.S. legislators for recklessly “destroying the very foundation of partnership,” as if anxious to “turn back the clock” to a previous era in which bilateral relations had been “torpedoed” by The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 51 the notorious Jackson-Vanik amendment (endorsed in 1974): “Both houses of the US Congress have approved the Ukraine Freedom Support Act, bypassing debates and proper voting. The overtly confrontational message of the new law cannot but evoke profound regret. … Russia will not be intimidated into giving up its interests and tolerating interference in its internal affairs.”15 Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov echoed the sentiment that the overtly hostile legislation could destroy chances for cooperation. Russia “will not be able to leave this without a response,” he said. The U.S. is trying “to dictate decisions to us that for us are categorically unacceptable.”16 Member of Parliament Mikhail Emelyanov called the Act “extremely dangerous,” and spoke of the need to protect Russia by a forthcoming authorization by the Russian State Duma for the deployment of Russian troops in Ukraine. Russia “cannot calmly watch as the U.S. arms Ukraine with the most modern lethal weapons,” he said. “The situation is very alarming. They want to turn Ukraine into a fighting platform against Russia.” Emelyanov stressed that the U.S. policy demonstrates not only that Washington is the most ruthless of all hegemons, but also that President Obama wants war, not peace — perhaps even a nuclear war directly targeting Moscow, which Emelyanov called madness by any standard if launched, bringing potential Armageddon. But the lunatics in Washington make anything possible, he lamented, including the ending of life on earth.17 The Wrong Road The economic sanctions which have been placed against Russia since March 2014 have brought hardship not only to the Russian economy, but to the Eurozone (and particularly to Germany) as well. Most devastating for Russia has been the widespread reaction of investors to sell off Russian assets, causing the Russian currency to plunge in the international market. By the end of 2014, the ruble had lost almost 50% of its value compared to the U.S. dollar, destroying personal and corporate savings and at the same time making it virtually impossible for Russian firms to do business with international partners. 52 The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks with Prince Saud al Faisal (foreign minister of Saudi Arabia) upon his arrival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on September 11, 2014, on his way to a meeting with King Abdullah in the king’s summer palace on the Red Sea. Saudi Arabia, which holds as a top priority the demise of President Assad in Syria, has become a willing partner with the United States in punishing Russian President Putin (the great ally of Syria). Keeping Saudi Arabian oil production high despite the worldwide deflated oil economy, Saudi Arabia has deliberately brought turmoil to the oil export-driven Russian economy by driving prices below Russia’s “break-even” threshold. As of January 13, 2015, oil prices had plunged to $45 per barrel – less than half of the June 2014 price of $115 per barrel, and far below Russia’s fiscal break-even price for 2015 of $80 per barrel. The ramifications of this extend far beyond the borders of Russia, as Michael Mross, a business journalist in Cologne, explains: “Almost every big company in Germany has economic relations with Russia. … If the ruble is devalued by about 45-50 percent, then the income of these companies will be reduced by this amount. … “If you want to make trouble with Russia, you make problems for yourself. This is exactly what everybody here in Germany knows, but nobody dares to say it officially. When you speak behind closed doors with the bosses of the big companies in Germany, they are all very afraid of what is going on with Russia and they do not stand behind these sanctions. They say that we have to solve these problems some other way, with political means, for example. But officially they say it’s OK, sanctions must be implemented…. They are shooting themselves in their own feet and they know it. … The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 53 “It’s not only the big companies that will face problems with this ruble depreciation and the sanctions that we have implemented. The whole monetary system will suffer. All the European banks have huge loans in Russia, or have extended huge amounts of credit to Russian companies. For example, Austrian and French banks are very deeply involved with credit to Russian companies and also to the Russian government. If the ruble continues to be devalued, then those companies will have enormous difficulty paying back these debts in dollars or euros. … You don’t read anything about this in the press right now but this will come to the surface very soon when we have another banking crisis triggered by the sanctions and by the ruble devaluation. … “There will be no winner in this situation. If Russia goes down, everyone else, including the West, will also go under. I predict this. And it will be a very hard future….”18 On top of all this, Saudi Arabia (apparently acting on a secret agreement brokered by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry)19 has joined the campaign to break President Putin. Throughout a price slide beginning in June 2014, Saudi Arabia has kept OPEC’s policy fixed against cutting back on oil production (which would drive prices back up). The effect has been to deepen the falling price of oil, from more than $100 per barrel in June (roughly where it has been for the past two years) down to less than $55 per barrel in late December. While the Gulf states can easily tolerate this reduction in profits, the falling prices have been devastating to the Russian economy, which depends heavily on revenues from petroleum exports. “I am sure that the oil prices plunge was provoked by the US to undermine the Russian and Venezuelan economies,” said Bolivian President Evo Morales.20 How Russia Might Respond Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury and Reagan Administration Cabinet Member and Economic Advisor, and former Associate Editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal) gives us an idea of some of the very powerful ways Russia could respond to Washington’s aggression: “We may see the Russians … bring down the Western house of cards. … There are multiple ‘Black Swans’ that Russia could unleash to bring down the West. One would be to buy up all of 54 The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf the naked shorts that the bullion banks dump into the COMEX [Commodity Exchange] market every time they drive down the gold and silver price.21 The Russians … could just buy up all these contracts representing tons and tons and tons of gold and then … (instead of settling in cash, which is how the COMEX usually settles) … say, ‘OK, we want the gold.’ Where would it come from? “Another thing would be to just let the ruble fall, as it goes down and down and down. The Russians have a very large stock of dollars…. [At some point] they can buy up the rubles at a very cheap price and withdraw them from the Western markets so that there is no longer any vulnerability. [Then] if the Russians say, ‘We won’t sell our energy except in rubles,’ and the Russians have withdrawn all the rubles from the market, … [the ruble will again become very strong and bring any] price the Russians ask for. … “Suppose the Russian government were to say [to the European banks], “Since you guys are attacking the ruble…, we’re not going to pay off the next installment of our debt that comes due early in 2015.” What would most likely happen is that the European banking system would collapse, because those banks are terribly undercapitalized. Some of them have loans to Russia that absorb almost their entire capital base. The Russians don’t even have to default. If they were just to say: ‘We’re not going to pay this year. We’ll pay it later, when the ruble stabilizes,’ … [and then] simply don’t pay off the loans that are coming due, the European banking system would probably collapse, and what would come from that? Who knows? There are all kinds of derivatives and Credit Default Swaps everywhere. We know these derivatives are now [valued at] some multiple of the world’s gross domestic product, and nobody really knows who all the counter-parties are and what the interrelations are. If the European banks start going down, who knows what the impact would be [throughout the West]? “The whole Western system is a house of cards — it’s not based on anything other than market manipulation, so it wouldn’t take much of a push to knock it down. … There are no economic fundamentals that support the Dow Jones stock prices. There are no economic fundamentals that support the strong dollar. To have a bond market in which the purchasers of bonds have to pay a fee in order to have a negative real interest rate makes no sense. When you buy a [U.S. Treasury] bond, you are automatically getting back less than you paid for it, because you first of all have to pay a premium to get the bond — a premium over its face value — and the interest rate you The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 55 get is less than the inflation rate. So what sense does that make, when the United States’ debt is exploding, and the money supply is exploding? It makes no sense at all. None of the American markets make any sense. They’re rigged. … “The biggest Black Swan of all, as I see it, is that if the Russians get thoroughly angry, all they have to do is to call up the European governments and say, ‘We no longer sell natural gas or any form of energy to members of NATO.’ The consequence would be the utter, total collapse of NATO. Not even a puppet state like Germany is going to let their people freeze to death, or to let their factories be closed down, and to let the unemployment rate hit 40%. It’s just not going to happen. Whenever the Russians want to destroy NATO, that’s all they have to do. … “All of the cards are in Putin’s hand. None of them are in Washington’s hand.22 Back to the Drawing Board The facts of our situation are clear, even if too little discussed in the mainstream media. In the words of John Pilger, the West may be lying its way into a nuclear war: “In my career as a journalist, I have never known the truth to be so inverted on one issue — an issue that is extremely dangerous. We are in the midst of a Cold War that I think is more dangerous than the Cold War I grew up with. And I grew up with the kind of raw propaganda that we’re now seeing here. We’re seeing demonizing by media, we’re seeing the turning inside out of facts by media, and if we’re not careful, we’re going to end up with a major war, and even the real possibility of a nuclear war, and much of it drumbeaten by media in the same way that the invasion of Iraq was in 2003. There are great similarities between them because [like the Bush administration’s lies which propelled the Iraq war, the present case likewise] involves fiction — the idea that Russia is somehow attacking the West. “The actual story behind this should have been obvious recently, when oil prices were driven down, clearly with the agreement between the United States and the Saudis. The reason for doing that was to wreck the Russian economy. The reason for moving into Ukraine — and it was that way, not the Russian way. The United States and its proxies have taken over Ukraine. I’ll give you one example. Vice-President Joe Biden’s son, L. Hunter Biden, is on the 56 The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf In May 2010, Pope Benedict XVI traveled to Fatima to officiate at the anniversary pilgrimage celebrations. Publicly reversing the scandalous claims of Cardinal Bertone, the Pope affirmed that the Third Secret of Fatima involves much more than the open assaults against the Church made by Her external enemies (such as those described in the Vision published in June 2000). “In addition to this great Vision,” Pope Benedict said, there are also “spoken” warnings from Our Lady of Fatima of “a passion of the Church” yet to be suffered in a “terrifying” future. This “greatest persecution of the Church” will be occasioned, the Pope said, by attacks not from the outside, but “precisely from within the Church.” In his televised homily before the 500,000 pilgrims at the May 13 anniversary Mass, Pope Benedict added even more strongly, “He deceives himself, who thinks that the prophetic mission of Fatima is concluded.” board of one of the fracking companies. There was a very important conference in Yalta in September 2013 attended by all the main players, in which the takeover of Ukraine was planned. People like the Clintons and members of the [Obama] administration, the fracking companies, the great agricultural multinationals like Cargill which are now in Ukraine. It was a takeover of Ukraine, and this could only have been done by a coup, and that coup was stagemanaged by the Obama administration. “The blame has been shifted directly to Russia. Every move that Russia has made has been defensive. The annexation of Crimea was entirely defensive. It would otherwise have ended up as a NATO base. There is no question about that. But the way this has been The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 57 portrayed in the West, [as if] Russia is being led by another Stalin or as Hillary Clinton called Putin, another Hitler (how perverse!) [is giving rise to] a real prospect of war. But Russia is not Iraq. Russia is a nuclear power with an extremely powerful conventional military force. Putin himself has stopped talking diplomatically (as he has been speaking right through most of this Ukrainian situation, in order to diffuse it, as clearly the Russians are worried) and has started talking red-lines himself. It is so dangerous, and it is being promoted by extraordinary propaganda in what is meant to be a free media (those who are meant to keep the record straight), practicing a whole demonizing of Russia. And in fact it may end up being self-fulfilling, it is such a danger.”23 Paul Craig Roberts sums up our present situation similarly: “[M]ilitary undertakings are closely coordinated with a process of economic warfare which consists not only in imposing sanctions on sovereign countries but also in deliberate acts of destabilization of financial and currency markets, with a view to undermining the enemies’ national economies. … “Clearly, the neoconservative formula is a formula for the final war. All of humanity is endangered by a handful of evil men and women ensconced in positions of power in Washington.”24 | Footnotes: 1. Ian Johnston, “Risks Of Nuclear War Rising Because Of Global Tensions And Insecure Stockpiles, Warn Experts,” The Independent, December 8, 2014; http://www.independent. co.uk/news/world/politics/risks-of-nuclear-war-is-rising-because-of-global-tensions-andinsecure-stockpiles-warn-experts-9909379.html 2. Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, “America Is on a ‘Hot War Footing’: House Legislation Paves the Way for War with Russia?” Global Research, December 5, 2014; http://www. globalresearch.ca/america-is-on-a-hot-war-footing-house-legislation-paves-the-way-forwar-with-russia/5418035 3. Robert Parry, “Who’s Telling the ‘Big Lie’ on Ukraine?” Consortium News, September 2, 2014; https://consortiumnews.com/2014/09/02/whos-telling-the-big-lie-on-ukraine/ 4. John Pilger, “War by Media and the Triumph of Propaganda,” December 5, 2014; http:// johnpilger.com/articles/war-by-media-and-the-triumph-of-propaganda 5. Cf. Carl Wicklander, “Congress Approves More Sanctions on Russia with No Debate or Recorded Vote,” Independent Voter Network, December 15, 2014; http://ivn.us/2014/12/15/ congress-approves-sanctions-russia-debate-recorded-vote/ 6. Doug Bandow, “How Many Enemies Does America Want? Congress Sacrifices U.S. Security With New Sanctions Against Russia,” Forbes, December 15, 2014; http://www. forbes.com/sites/dougbandow/2014/12/15/how-many-enemies-does-america-wantcongress-sacrifices-u-s-security-with-new-sanctions-against-russia/ 7. Paul Craig Roberts, “Russia Has Western Enemies, Not Partners,” December 5, 2014; http:// www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/12/05/russia-western-enemies-partners-paul-craig-roberts/ 8. “U.S. House Vote Could Lead to War with Russia, Warns Physicians for Civil Defense,” PR Newswire, December 4, 2014; http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-house-vote58 The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf could-lead-to-war-with-russia-warns-physicians-for-civil-defense-300005283.html 9. “H.Res.758 – Strongly condemning the actions of the Russian Federation, under President Vladimir Putin, which has carried out a policy of aggression against neighboring countries aimed at political and economic domination,” Library of Congress, 113th Congress (20132014); https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-resolution/758/text 10. Robert Bridge, “America Tuned Out As Congress Bangs War Drum Against Russia,” RT, December 7, 2014; http://rt.com/op-edge/212263-us-russia-putin-congress/ 11. Paul Craig Roberts, Interview by RT, “The US Govt Bent on World Hegemony, Russia Stands in Its Way — Reagan Economic Ex-Advisor,” December 4, 2014; http://rt.com/opedge/211579-us-world-hegemony-russia/\ 12. Paul Craig Roberts, “Russia Has Western Enemies, Not Partners,” December 5, 2014; http:// www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/12/05/russia-western-enemies-partners-paul-craig-roberts/ 13. Cf. Stephen Blackwell, “As the Pressure Mounts, Putin Remains Defiant,” The National, December 22, 2014, http://www.thenational.ae/opinion/comment/as-the-pressure-mountsputin-remains-defiant; and Paul Craig Roberts, “Vladimir Putin’s Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly,” December 6, 2014, http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/12/06/ vladimir-putins-presidential-address-federal-assembly/ 14. The Saker, “Disgusted, Russia Officially Gives Up Any Pretense of ‘Dialog’ with the AngloZionist Empire,” Information Clearing House, http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ article40387.htm 15. Stephen Lendman, “US-NATO Delivering Arms to Ukraine. The Planning of Aggression against Russia,” Global Research, December 15, 2014; http://www.globalresearch.ca/usnato-delivering-arms-to-ukraine-the-planning-of-aggression-against-russia/5419850 16. Ibid. 17. Ibid., and Tyler Durden, “Russia Warns May Send Troops To Ukraine After Congress Unanimously Votes To Give Lethal Aid To Kiev,” Zero Hedge, December 13, 2014; http:// www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-13/russia-warns-may-send-troops-ukraine-aftercongress-unanimously-votes-give-lethal-ai 18. Michael Mross, Interview with RT, “West Shoots Itself In The Foot With Russian Sanctions,” December 22, 2014; http://www.rt.com/op-edge/216591-germany-economy-russia-ruble/ 19. Cf. Mohamad Bazzi, “Saudi Arabia Is Playing Chicken with Its Oil,” Reuters, December 15, 2014, http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/12/15/saudi-arabia-is-playing-chickenwith-its-oil/; and Tyler Durden, “Why Oil Is Plunging: The Other Part Of The ‘Secret Deal’ Between The US And Saudi Arabia,” Zero Hedge, October 11, 2014, http://www.zerohedge. com/news/2014-10-10/why-oil-plunging-other-part-secret-deal-between-us-and-saudiarabia 20. “The US Is Behind The Current Drop In Oil Prices – Bolivia’s President,” RT, December 19, 2014; http://rt.com/news/216083-oil-us-morales-bolivia/ 21. For a thorough explanation of this process, see the article by Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler, “The Hows and Whys of Gold Price Manipulation,” Paul Craig Roberts Institute for Political Economy, January 17, 2014; http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/01/17/howswhys-gold-price-manipulation/ 22. Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, Interview by Greg Hunter of King World News, “Will Russia’s Response to Washington’s Aggression Be to Release Black Swans?” December 20, 2014; http://kingworldnews.com/dr-paul-craig-roberts-12-20-14/ 23. John Pilger, Video Interview by Going Underground, “John Pilger: ‘Real Possibility of Nuclear War’ – Ukraine Crisis Could Start World War 3,” Information Clearing House, December 22, 2014, 15:20-19:45; http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40537.htm 24. Paul Craig Roberts, “On the Brink of War and Economic Collapse,” Paul Craig Roberts Institute for Political Economy, December 12, 2014; http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/12/12/ brink-war-economic-collapse-paul-craig-roberts/?awt_l=xlugd&awt_m=3YrxQQBMejnjM89 The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 59 RUSSIAN SUNRISE Prelude to Promised World Peace The following is a transcript of a speech given by Dr. Bruce Walters at the “FATIMA: The Path to Peace!” Conference held in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada on September 8, 2013. By Bruce W. Walters, M.D. Y our Excellencies, Reverend Fathers and Religious, Honorable Officials, D i st i n g u i s h e d Conference Speakers, and Brothers and Sisters in Christ: We have come to this international conference because we see that the contemporary world is not on a trajectory toward peace. In the course of this week, we will hear various analyses of what is wrong with the world – of what needs to be repaired. The late Catholic scholar and notable writer G.K. Chesterton, when asked by The Times of London to write on the topic “What is wrong with the world?”, submitted a very brief response: “Dear Sirs, I am.” Each and every one of us, because of our tendency to sin, is a contributor to the disorder in the world. No matter how carefully world leaders may plan according to human wisdom, they can never arrive 60 at a workable solution for world peace. The current plan to forge a New World Order, without Christ as King, can only help to prepare the way for the eventual appearance of the ultimate tyrant, the antichrist. Only the Immaculate Heart can offer a true solution to the world’s problems. And that true solution to world peace was made known to mankind by Our Lady of Fatima, beginning in 1917. On July 13, 1917, Our Lady told Sister Lucy that She would come back someday to ask for the consecration of Russia. She promised that when Her request was obeyed, Russia would be converted, and the world would be granted a period of peace. On June 13, 1929, as promised, Our Lady again appeared to Sister Lucy, in Tuy, Spain. She announced that the time had come for the Pope, in union with all the Catholic bishops in the world, on one The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf Jesus, Himself, through His blessed Mother at Fatima, commands the Pope, together with the Catholic bishops of the world to consecrate RUSSIA to the Immaculate Heart of Mary so that devotion to Her Immaculate Heart will be placed beside devotion to His Sacred Heart. It is only “by this means” that we will have true peace worldwide. The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 61 single day at the same time, to formally consecrate Russia to Her Immaculate Heart. But it was not done. In August 1931, at Rianjo, Spain, Our Lord Himself appeared to Sister Lucy and confided: “They did not heed My request! ... Like the King of France, they will repent of it, and they will do it, but it will be late. Russia will already have spread her errors throughout the world ...” What Does Russia’s Conversion Mean? We know from impeccable sources – Our Lady of Fatima, and Our Lord Jesus Christ – that, at some point in the future, Russia will be properly consecrated, and that it will be “converted.” But what, specifically, can this conversion mean? What could we expect to happen in a converted Russia? And, how might Russian society be re-organized after such a true conversion? To explore these questions, several years ago I began drafting a future fiction novel entitled Russian Sunrise, which was published in 2011 by Good Counsel Publications. Drawing on Catholic social teaching, the story is an attempt to imagine how a converted nation, in the contemporary world, would 62 reorganize itself. In the words of Our Lady, “conversion” could only mean turning toward and embracing the Truth – the one religion which is true, the Roman Catholic Faith, as handed down to us from the Blessed Apostles and the Fathers and Doctors of the Church. In our modernist, postrevolutionary world, people have been programmed to assume that religion is a private matter, and that governments cannot undergo religious conversions in the same way that individuals can. But history shows that societies have prospered, both materially and spiritually, precisely when governments have officially confessed the one religion which is true, the Roman Catholic Faith. James Bemis, a columnist in Latin Mass Magazine, has written a series of delightful historical articles entitled “Best When Catholic.” Each article explores a specific nation, detailing what life was like when that nation was a Catholic Confessional State. If you doubt that nations have converted in the past, read those articles. Also, review what happened after Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas, appeared to Juan Diego in Mexico. Nine million conversions took place within the short span of ten years. The people rejected their demonic The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf AFP Our Lady at the EU Parliament – Strasbourg Ora et labora, “Pray and work.” In this Associated Press photo (which appeared in major print and online news sources on the morning of the Pope’s and Father Gruner’s visit to the European Union Parliament headquarters in Strasbourg), we see an example of St. Benedict’s admonition in action. Our Lady worked wonders through this apostolate’s Pilgrim Virgin statue in response to the prayers of our crew members (including our volunteer, Brother Bernard, pictured here). It was during the long, cold wait outside of the Parliament building after Monday’s Rosary procession that Our Lady answered our prayers that She open the doors of Parliament to Her statue on the following morning. pagan religion that utilized human sacrifice on a massive scale. Instead, they embraced the one true Religion – in which men are commanded to love God with all their hearts, and to love their neighbors as themselves. Catholic Confessional States eventually arose throughout Latin America, building a civilization of faith and dignity that helped to change the world. The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 63 Can a Modern Nation Convert? Certainly individuals can convert. But can a modern nation convert? We know it can, because Our Lady has told us it will happen – to Russia. Father Joaquin Alonso, who had many interviews with Sister Lucy, wrote in 1976 as follows: “ ... we should affirm that Lucia always thought that the ‘conversion’ of Russia is not to be limited to the return of the Russian people to the Orthodox Christian religion, rejecting the Marxist atheism of the Soviets, but rather, it refers purely, plainly and simply to the total, integral conversion of Russia to the one true Church of Christ, the Roman Catholic Church.”1 In the novel Russian Sunrise, the vast majority of individual souls in Russia undergo a miraculous conversion of heart shortly after their nation is properly consecrated to the Immaculate Heart. Countless converted individuals first become focused on how to reorder their own lives to bring them into conformity with the teachings of Christ the lawgiver – as taught by the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church which He founded upon the rock of Peter. But soon, such converted individuals realize 64 that the collective organizations they form – such as local, state, and national governments – also need to be bound and guided by the same law of Christ. A Catholic Confessional State A Ministry of Catholic Social Reorganization is established, utilizing the collective wisdom of bishops, political leaders, and academic experts. The Ministry sets forth a series of policy recommendations, making a first attempt at establishing a contemporary Catholic Confessional State. As noted in the bulletin announcing this conference: “The aim of government is the good of the governed. And what higher good is there than the salvation of souls? ‘But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.’ [Luke 12:31.]” What is the proper relationship of the state to the Church? We can find the answer in Immortale Dei, the 1885 encyclical of Pope Leo XIII, On the Christian Constitution of States.2 In that encyclical we are instructed as follows: “The Catholic Church ... has for her immediate ... purpose the saving of souls and securing our happiness in Heaven. Yet, The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf in regards to things temporal, she is the source of benefits as manifold and great as if the chief end of her existence were to ensure the prospering of our earthly life ... All nations which have yielded to her sway have become eminent by their gentleness, their sense of justice, and the glory of their high deeds. “It is not difficult to determine ... the form and character of the State ... God alone is the true and supreme Lord of the world. Everything, without exception, must be subject to Him, and must serve Him, so that whoever holds the right to govern holds it from ... God, the sovereign Ruler of all. “The ... mode of government ... may take this or that form, provided only that it be of a nature to insure the general welfare. But ... rulers must bear in mind that God is the paramount Ruler of the world, and must set Him before themselves as their exemplar and law in the administration of the State. “They, therefore, who rule should rule with even-handed justice, not as masters, but rather as fathers, for the rule of God over man is most just, and is tempered always with a father’s kindness. ... the civil power must not be subservient to the advantage of any one individual or of some few persons, inasmuch as it was established for the common good of all. “ ... the State ... is clearly bound to ... the public profession of religion. ... For men living together in society are under the power of God no less than individuals are ... it is a sin for the State not to have care for religion, as a something beyond its scope, or as of no practical benefit; or out of many forms of religion to adopt that one which chimes with the fancy; for we are bound absolutely to worship God in that way which He has shown to be His will. “All who rule, therefore, should hold in honor the holy name of God, and one of their chief duties must be to favor religion, to protect it, to shield it under the credit and sanction of the laws, and neither to organize nor enact any measure that may compromise its safety. “This is the bounden duty of rulers to the people over whom they rule. For one and all are we destined by our birth and adoption to enjoy, when this frail and fleeting life is ended, a supreme and final good in Heaven, and to the attainment of this every endeavor should be directed. ... Hence civil society ... should ... in every The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 65 manner ... render as easy as may be, the possession of that highest and unchangeable good for which all should seek. Wherefore ... care must especially be taken to preserve unharmed and unimpeded the religion whereof the practice is the link connecting man with God.” In Russian Sunrise, the newly-converted Russian State reorganizes itself according to the foregoing principles from Immortale Dei. Let us now review how the future structure of Russia as a Catholic Confessional State is envisioned: 1. The Conversion of the Russian Orthodox Church After the conversion of Russia, what becomes of the Russian Orthodox Church, which comprises ninety-five percent of the world’s Orthodox Christians? The story notes that, theologically, the Orthodox are very close to the Catholic Church, and that they could easily return to the Catholic fold much like the Anglican Use Catholics, while retaining their ancient liturgy. At one time, Pope St. Pius X had approved the use of the Russian Orthodox liturgy by Catholic priests in Russia. The Russian Orthodox Church simply becomes an Orthodox 66 Rite within the Roman Catholic Church, with its bishops subject to the Roman Pontiff, and with a few theological errors, such as the omission of the filioque clause in the Creed, corrected. 2. Form of Government The newly-Catholic Russians note that Heaven itself is a monarchy, and that in the Church the Pope is a monarch, with Cardinals as princes overseeing a hierarchy of subordinate officials. Russia, a modern republic for the past century, has a prior history of Christian monarchy dating back a millennium. So, after Russia’s conversion, a public referendum is held to determine whether the majority of the Russian people desire to re-establish their Christian monarchy. The voters are given three choices: (1) a Catholic autocrat bound only by the law of Christ and His Church; (2) a monarch bound by an imperfect Constitution crafted by the minds of men; or (3) an elected legislature that makes the laws, with a ceremonial monarch having no real power. Now, being miraculously conver ted, a major ity of the voters choose the The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf Catholic autocrat. Furthermore, the Russians opt for a restoration of the Romanov Orthodox Christian dynasty, which ruled Russia for 350 years prior to the 1917 anti-Christian revolution. Successive kings, called Tsars, are to be chosen by God through male primogeniture, thus placing them above politics and the influence of big money. The new Tsar restores St. Petersburg as the future capital, and governs from the Alexander Palace where the last Tsar resided until 1917. The nation’s 83 principalities – comparable to states or provinces – are to be ruled by princes called Dukes, appointed by the Tsar. Local areas called “counties” are ruled by local princes called “Counts”, appointed by the Dukes. Cities, towns, and villages – the most local governments – operate under a democratic system of elected officials. True Democracy Can Only Function at the Local Level This reflects the obvious reality that true democracy can only function at the local level. A national parliament is established to provide advice to the Tsar that is truly representative of local small business and local cultural concerns. The parliament will meet twice a year in the capital for a maximum of one month per session. Its members must spend the other ten months each year earning a living back home. Qualifications for Members of Parliament include being certified by one’s local bishop as a Roman Rite or Orthodox Rite Catholic in good standing; and being the owner-operator of a local business in the home district that employs between 20 and 100 people. In this way, the Tsar will receive advice not from giant corporations or paid lobbyists, but from local businessmen who must live and work under the laws they have recommended. But note well: the parliament is an advisory body, not a legislature. The autocrat alone makes and changes the laws, so that politics do not compromise his wisdom, or his mandate to answer first to Christ and His Church. Political “deals,” or votebuying through compromises, have no place in such a Catholic system of government. A religious test for public office is both appropriate and necessary in a Catholic State. It does not constitute unjust discrimination, since all persons are equally free and eligible to embrace the one The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 67 true Faith, which is everyone’s duty before God. 3. Restoration of the Nobility 4. Honest Money A Catholic State is subject to the biblical command to have honest weights and measures. Money properly serves both as a standard of value, and as a convenient medium of exchange. Honest money facilitates the fair and transparent exchange of goods. Sacred Scripture takes for granted that gold and silver are the usual forms of money; and several millennia of recorded history provide evidence that this was true from the dawn of history right up until 1971, when U.S. President Nixon finally severed any connection between modern “fiat” currencies and precious metals. In Russian Sunrise, the Catholic government immediately reinstates precious metal coins as the circulating currency. Paper notes, representing gold on deposit in the federal treasury, serve as a convenient alternative for handling larger sums. There would be no need for a central bank in such a system, only a treasury for the deposit of precious metals reserves, which would be publicly audited on an annual basis. In a Catholic Confessional State, the nobility comprises a class of men and women, mainly selected by conception and birth, who carry the mandate to serve the people as leaders. They are expected to publicly model Catholic virtues in both their personal lives and their public endeavors. Outstanding common citizens deemed worthy of noble status can be elevated to the nobility by the Tsar, and those nobles whose behavior renders them unworthy can be demoted by the Tsar to the status of commoners. In a Catholic State, nobility is not a vehicle for dissipated living funded by inherited wealth. It is rather a public acknowledgement that various hierarchies are part of the beauty of creation – and that the enforced radical “equality” typical of modern socalled democracies is an aspect of the modernist revolution against God. The traditional system of selecting monarchs and the ruling nobility by conception and birth constitutes a public confession that both contraception and 5. Subsidiarity abortion supplant God’s A Catholic State will be prerogative to select the leaders structured according to the for the next generation. principle of subsidiarity, which 68 The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf teaches us that centralization and bureaucratization tend toward evil, and that all decisionmaking should be done at the most local level possible. Villages, towns, and cities can operate on a democratic basis, and the majority of rules should be implemented at that level so that they can be easily amended according to local needs and circumstances. Only a limited amount of regulation is necessary at the state or national level, so that the Duke ruling states and the Tsar ruling the nation would normally intervene in local matters only in rare cases. Such subsidiarity was typical of the Catholic monarchies that built Western civilization, and it was even typical of the secular U.S. government as originally conceived. 6. Brotherhood Supersedes Tribalism The concept of the brotherhood of man is uniquely Christian. Prior to the coming of Christ into this world, men believed in the virtue of defending and favoring one’s own clan or nation (if need be) at the expense and peril of other men and nations. It was Our Lord Jesus Christ Who changed this. “He came unto His own, and His own received Him not,” St. John tells us. First, He sent disciples twoby-two throughout the nation of Israel, to announce the arrival of their Messiah-King. But only a few accepted His message. Ultimately, their leaders induced the Romans to crucify their King, thus demonstrating their unworthiness as a nation to any longer be considered special. St. Peter, the first Pope, was granted a vision showing him that the Gospel was to be shared also with the Gentiles – that is, with all nations, Jew and Gentile alike. The Church founded by Christ was thus the means of overcoming tribalism, and establishing the true universal brotherhood of man. Everyone was to be his “brother’s keeper” – and all nations were called to help raise their neighbors up into the blessings of Christian civilization. But the practice of such brotherhood begins at home. In the Russian Kingdom, the Church hierarchy reverts to the model of monarchy and brotherhood that characterized the Church until after 1960. The bishops must be as fathers to their beloved priests, and must relate to them as family rather than as corporate employees. No lay boards or diocesan human resources departments The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 69 should intervene between a bishop and his brother priests. Priests must once again expect, in most cases, to become the father of a single parish for their entire career, so that true fatherhood and brotherhood can once again flourish in the Church.3 Similarly, the Tsar must behave as a loving father toward his nation. He must find ways to regularly meet with and listen to the common people. Like a good parent, he must be a model of righteous behavior and orthodox belief, which all his family – the nation – can safely emulate. 7. Education “Education in a Catholic State is the primary responsibility of parents, who will answer to God for the formation of their offspring. The Church is responsible to guide and instruct parents, and to assist them in every way possible.” While parents have an absolute right to home school, locally-funded cooperative schools, limited to a neighborhood or village, and controlled by local parents, can be superior. Curriculum recommendations could be promulgated by the Church, but not by the government, which has no competence to regulate education. In a Catholic State, religious minorities would be 70 tolerated but not encouraged, and would have to form and fund their own local schools if they did not wish their children to receive the usual Catholic education. 8. Universities “A university is a collection of colleges which bring together groups of scholars specialized in each major branch of study, for the purpose of promoting the advancement of human knowledge and achievement in the various arts and sciences.” In a Catholic State, Catholic universities receive funding through the tax system. But in return, universities must work to improve the happiness and prosperity of Christian society in the practical, moral, and artistic spheres.” The king and local princes, “under the guidance of the Church, oversee the quality of those holding positions in universities. An annual public Oath of Fidelity to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church is required of all faculty . . . By definition, those who refuse to take such an oath are opposed to Truth (and are in league with error) and therefore cannot be trusted to help form the minds and hearts of [Christian] youth . . .” “Since ultimate Truth has been revealed to man by God, The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf © Frantisek Zvardon, Ville et CUS Strasbourg Cathedral and has been entrusted to His Church as the Deposit of Faith, Catholic theology is the Queen of Arts and Sciences, and Thomistic philosophy is the most highly developed method of analyzing the Truth with precision of thought. Therefore, the natural arts and sciences must build upon the sure foundation of Catholic Truth in order to truly advance and not make shipwreck.” A case in point would be the Pope Francis at Strasbourg – On Tuesday, November 25, 2014, Pope Francis addressed the plenar y session of the European Union Parliament in Strasbourg, France, about a variety of subjects — ecology, unemployment, immigration…. Father Gruner also addressed the European Union Parliament on the same day, but with a different and far more important message. If the Pope is not moved very soon to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the manner specified by Our Lady of Fatima, the world (including all of the European Union nations) will suffer terrible consequences foretold by Our Lady. Father Gruner noted that if enough Members of the European Union Parliament will sign the formal petition initiated by The Fatima Center in 2012 and already formally accepted by the Parliamentary Petitions Committee, such a public gesture might finally move Pope Francis to obey Our Lady of Fatima’s request for the Consecration of Russia and save Europe from annihilation! Galileo matter. Catholic apologist and science scholar Dr. Robert Sungenis has shown definitively in his 2013 book, Galileo Was Wrong: The Church was Right, that modern science has in fact made shipwreck by promoting the erroneous heliocentric theory for the past 500 years. I would refer you to the forthcoming documentary film The Principle for introductory details about http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf this fascinating subject. A more widely understood example of secular science making shipwreck is the theory of the evolution of species, which remains completely unproven to this day, since not even one credible transitional species has been found, even after one hundred and fifty years of searching. 9. Healthcare “The treatment and prevention of disease is a Corporal Work of Mercy and is therefore inseparable from the Catholic religion ... [Almost] all healthcare is made necessary by falling into the misfortune of illness or disease. To be paid fair compensation for the products one supplies, or just wages for the work one performs, in caring for others, is just and proper; but to make a profit on others’ misfortune is immoral.” In a Catholic State, healthcare would be operated as a private, local business, with large establishments such as hospitals or nursing homes being non-profit, and owned and operated by the Church or by municipalities. Regulation of healthcare entities would be done at the county level, and multi-county healthcare chains would not be permitted because 72 their management becomes too far removed from the local people. Firms which develop medical products, including phar maceuticals, would pursue safety certifications not through government, but rather through private independent testing laboratories, or through private contracts with research universities. Each local healthcare facility would determine what safety standards it would require, weighing costs versus risks versus benefits in light of the local situation. It would not be the prerogative of government to intervene in the learned profession of medicine. The licensing of healthcare professionals could be handled by boards of experienced professionals at the state level. All healthcare practices would be regulated by the moral law, as made clear by the Church. 10. Banking In a Catholic State, with gold and silver as money, fractional reserve banking would not be allowed, and usury would be illegal. Even though the entire modern world’s economy operates on usury, it remains condemned by the Church. Atrisk investment, in which the lender prospers or fails along The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf with the borrower, is allowed by the Church. But usury is the charging of interest on loans, requiring the repayment of the principle plus an additional amount, regardless of whether the borrower prospers or fails. Usury requires an endless expansion of the money supply, since more money must always be paid back than was originally borrowed. This endless inflation of the money supply in turn causes a continual increase in prices – so that the prudence of living within one’s means and saving is punished; instead, due to the perverse incentive of inflation, living beyond one’s means and incurring debt is rewarded. In a Catholic State, banks would be limited to the local level, serving no greater a market area than the county in which they are founded. Such limited banks would prosper only as the local economy prospered. They could earn profits only by investing in and promoting the success of local businesses. Their profits would be honestly earned through helping to increase the general local prosperity – never extracted as interest from helpless borrowers, or by the rigging of gambling bets in vast rigged markets based on futures contracts or so-called derivatives. The anti- Catholic practice of usury is the fundamental cause of the debt crisis now spiraling out of control throughout Western nations. Usury remains condemned by the Catholic Church, and cannot be permitted in a Catholic State. 11. Commerce In a Catholic State, workers who are productive and reliable would be paid a living wage, so that a married man employed full-time could adequately (not luxuriously) support a wife and as many children as God may see fit to send them. This would necessarily entail some limits on business profits, as wealth would need to be widely distributed and not excessively concentrated in the hands of a few. Corporations would either be forbidden, or be strictly limited in size. The large corporation, a colossal fictional “person” that never dies, and that lacks an immortal soul answerable to God, is a moral abomination. Business enterprises should be owned and operated personally at the local level, and in most cases should not be allowed to expand beyond the boundaries of the county in which they are founded. Most people ought to invest only at the local level where management people and their personal reputation and The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 73 business practices can be known and observed. 12. Agriculture Catholic social policy should encourage a return to the land, where both manufacturing and agriculture should be pursued on the scale of local businesses. Corporatized “agribusiness” deprives a large percentage of the population from the opportunity to live in close proximity to the land in closely-knit human-sized communities. 13. Risk Management For-profit insurance is unethical and would not be permitted in a Catholic State. Rather, locallyoperated cooperatives could pool risks, and determine on an annual basis the actual just cost of covering approved damages. In general, risk pools would not operate over a wider region than a county, so that leadership and participants could have personal familiarity with local customs, risks, and claims. Governments at the state and national level could set aside pools of revenue to offset disaster losses. Workers who administer risk pools would be paid fair wages, but the risk pools would be not-for-profit and would have completely transparent books supporting the annual adjustment in rates. 74 14. Consumer Financing In a Catholic State with honest money, no usury, and a distributist economy in which living wages are the norm, citizens would be encouraged to avoid debt and to practice frugality and saving. The modernist alchemy of consumer debt as a vehicle to expanding economic wealth is contrary to Truth. Deferring gratification until one has worked and saved, to afford desired goods, tends toward true wealth and prosperity over time. Without the modernist scourges of usury and resultant inflation, the virtue of frugality is easily able to produce its inevitable rewards. 15. Taxes Taxes, a necessary evil, must be uniform, transparent, and strictly limited in a Catholic State. Social engineering through complex tax codes is contrary to social justice, except for some exemptions to aid and encourage larger families. Given the excellent ancient custom of donating ten percent of one’s income to the Church or to Christian charities, any government which would dare to ask as much as ten percent in taxes would seek to place itself above the Church. The family is the basic unit of the economy, and should be The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf The Fatima Center never misses an opportunity to remind Our Lord’s ministers of the urgent Message of Fatima — whenever possible, even on the doorstep of the Vatican! Our Pilgrim Virgin statue (photo above) was carried in procession daily through St. Peter’s Square in full view of the Pope and the hundreds of bishops gathered for last October’s Synod on the Family. It was Our Lady of Fatima’s intervention, due in part to our daily Rosary processions, that reversed the disastrous course announced in the Synod’s Interim Report. Our Lady’s image is itself a powerful emblem of Grace and Purity, banishing the shameful influence of demons. left free to retain most of its income, and to make decisions on how to spend that income according to personal and local circumstances. In Russian Sunrise, the Tsar recommended a flat income tax of four percent to one’s county, three percent to one’s state, and two percent to the federal government, for a total of nine percent. But this was to be reduced by a one percent tax credit for every dependent child under age 18, or for dependent adult relatives living in the home. Thus, a family with nine children under age 18 would pay no taxes. of Mercy best supervised by individual families; or, if necessary, with assistance through the Church. The proper role of government is to protect families and to foster a social and economic environment in which families and individuals can flourish through responsible and moral behavior. Those who are rendered destitute through no fault of their own should be able to rely on charity administered through the Church. The Church at the local level can best administer institutions such as orphanages; 16. Social Welfare and Rights shelters for the destitute, abused, and homeless; retirement In a Catholic State, caring communities; and assisted living for the poor, the widow, and and nursing home facilities. the orphan is a Corporal Work http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf Social policies that encourage married couples to be generous in procreation tend to result in larger numbers of young people answering their vocation to the religious life. The missionary spirit of the Church Militant on earth includes a tradition of many religious Brothers and Sisters serving as teachers in schools, and as caregivers in institutions dedicated to caring for those in need. Thus, in a vibrant Catholic State, the costs of operating appropriate social services becomes markedly reduced, even while the quality of service improves. 17. Law In the Russian Catholic Confessional State, the crown officially declares that there is one religion which is true, the Roman Catholic Faith, including among its various rites the Roman Rite and the Orthodox Rite. All other religions therefore contain at least some error, and will be tolerated but not supported by the Russian Kingdom. The Law of Christ, as taught and explained by the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, is the law of the Russian Kingdom ... The Tsar is an autocrat with respect to men, but is an obedient 76 servant with respect to Almighty God. The Tsar’s mandate is to enforce, encourage, and exemplify obedience to the Law of Christ within the borders of the Russian Kingdom; and, insofar as possible, with all men everywhere. The Tsar has no power to make any law contrary to the Law of Christ or the rules of Christ’s Church, nor does the Tsar possess any power to dispense from obedience to the aforesaid Law or rules. The rights of God take precedence over the rights of man. Men have a right to life from conception to natural death, and God has the right to determine when men shall be conceived and when they shall die ... Men have a right to that true liberty which is to do the will of God, but men are not at liberty to break God’s Law with impunity. Therefore, men have a right to freely speak the truth, but they do not have an equal right to proclaim error. Men have a right and a duty to believe and obey the one religion which is true, the Roman Catholic religion, but cannot be forced by the state or the Church to do so. Therefore, the state will promote the true religion but will only tolerate false religions. The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf God calls all men on earth to become one family in the Body of Christ, which is the Catholic Church. Therefore, discrimination on the basis of religion is not only legal, but is a requirement of Charity; for it can never be charitable to leave a brother groping in the darkness of error rather than to lovingly invite him to come into the light of Truth. A Catholic State may – and in most cases must – impose a religious test for high office, because those who are unable to publicly acknowledge the Truth cannot reliably be trusted with the stewardship of the public good. A working man must be paid a just wage which enables him to support a wife and large family in an adequate but not luxurious manner. Social justice may therefore require that men with larger families be paid a higher wage for the same work than a single man or a man with a small family ... As a general rule, the highest paid workers in a company or in a society should not be paid more than about ten times the lowest paid workers. This provides adequate incentive to work hard, without unduly enriching the few at the expense of the many. Holy Days of Obligation should be legal holidays. Most businesses, except for those essential to the preservation of life, should be closed on holy days and Sundays. CONCLUSION We have discussed a few salient points about the probable nature of a future Catholic Confessional State, a nation that by its shining example of justice and godliness would be the catalyst for the period of world peace promised by Heaven. The story in Russian Sunrise predicts that after one powerful Catholic Confessional State emerges on the modern world stage, people in many other nations will observe the peace, true liberty, and prosperity characteristic of the Russian Catholic State, and will clamor to emulate Russia’s Catholic virtues within their own borders. It is also expected that a Catholic Confessional State would produce an abundance of religious vocations, which would spread out across the world as a zealous new missionary force to rebuild Catholic Christendom. By this means, world peace will unfold: one by one, nations will turn aside from serving the prince of this world and his kingdom of mammon. Instead, nations will adopt Russia’s example in implementing the The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf 77 Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The solution to world peace is the conversion of most men and nations to the one religion which is true – and the consequent submission of governments to the Law of Christ and to the benevolent guidance of His Church. Our Lady of Fatima has told us that world peace will follow from the Consecration of Russia, by the Pope and all the Catholic bishops in the world, on the same day and at the same time, to Her Immaculate Heart. A simple five-minute prayer will one day bring peace to the world. Jesus told Sister Lucy that the Holy Father will do it, but he will do it late. For Corpus Christi 2013, the Holy Father requested all the world’s cathedrals to synchronize with the Pope in Rome, so that all might adore the Blessed Sacrament during the same hour. Even more recently, Pope Francis announced a plan to bring the statue of Our Lady of Fatima, from the shrine in Portugal, to Rome for October 13, 2013 – when the Pope plans to make yet another consecration of the world to Our Lady of Fatima. Brothers and sisters, let us pray, beginning today, that our dear Holy Father will obtain the 78 grace to understand how very close he is to complete obedience to Our Lady of Fatima: He needs only to order (not request) all the bishops to synchronize with him once again, to consecrate not the world, but Russia by name, to the Immaculate Heart of Mary – and then Heaven will make good on the 96-year-old promise to grant the world a miraculous period of peace. Brothers and sisters, it is now late – very late. It is 96 years since Our Lady first appeared to Sister Lucy at Fatima. May this Conference produce a worldwide groundswell of fervent prayers for the Holy Father, so that he may obtain the grace needed to finally obey Our Lady of Fatima in every detail – and bring our war-torn world the promised period of peace. “Pray! Pray very much” for the Holy Father. Thank you. See page 80 to order your copy of RUSSIAN SUNRISE.| Footnotes 1. Cited in The Devil’s Final Battle, Second Edition, Edited and Compiled by Father Paul Kramer, 2010, page 271. 2. Cited in The Angelus, January-February 2013 issue, pages 41-42. 3. Orsi, Rev. Michael P., Ed.D., “The Real Reason for the Vocations Crisis,” posted on the Opus Bono Sacerdotii website, August 2013 (opusbonosacerdotii.org). The Fatima Crusader | Winter 2015 http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr111/cr111.pdf THE FATIMA as a major Roadblock. CRUSADER IS DEPENDENT ON YOUR TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS We NEED You to Help Us Continue to Spread the ONLY Prophetic Truth That Will Save the World and Many Souls Please Be as Generous as You Can Give alms for printing and circulating this vitally important magazine that promotes the FULL Fatima Message. Our Lady will richly reward you. 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