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THE THIRD SECRET OF FATIMA REVEALED
August 28, 2000
Don Hawley
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On June 26, 2000, the Vatican revealed what they claim to be the facts about the famous Third Secret of Fatima. This disclosure stirred the religious world only briefly, but I believe the matter is more momentous than most realize. The truth concerning this prophecy will affect every Christian to one degree or another.
On the above-mentioned date Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the pope’s secretary of state, announced that the Third Secret of Fatima prophesied the attempted assassination of John Paul II, which occurred on May 13, 1981. Leading religion scholars, both Catholic and Protestant, are openly questioning the official Catholic interpretation of this controversial declaration.
In reporting the dialog in its September 4 issue, Christianity Today pointed out:
“Richard McBrien, professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame and general editor of The Harper-Collins Encyclopedia of Catholicism, told CT he believes in neither Marian apparitions nor the pope’s recent interpretation.
“‘The Third Secret speaks of a bishop in white dying. The pope was only wounded. None of the other details of the secret correspond with the shooting incident in Saint Peter’s Square.’
“Even some Marian organizations oppose the pope’s exegesis. Paul Kramer of the Fatima Center in Fort Erie, Ontario, one of the largest Marian organizations, called the Vatican interpretation a ‘whitewash,’ adding that it has been sullied by church politics.”
I agree with the “whitewash” assessment, and would like to reveal what I consider to be the actual truth about the Third Secret. Over the past few years I believe God placed in my hands—sequentially—four books that shed a great deal of light on closing events in earth’s history. Only the religiously naïve would think that the mighty Roman Catholic Church will not play a significant role in final events.
I would urge those inclined to dig for vital truth to read these four volumes. However, I know that most will not find the time to do so. In this report I’ll try to bring from each book a few important details pointing to the truth about the Third Secret.
1. IN GOD’S NAME
The first volume is In God’s Name by David A. Yallop. Subtitled “An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I,” it was produced by Bantam Books in 1984.
Recently the Catholic Church issued material to convince the world that John Paul I died a natural death, but the matter won’t go away. After reading this well-researched book, I personally am convinced that the pope met a most unnatural death—only 33 days into his new reign.
A few decades ago the Protestant world could find little good to say about the Roman Catholic Church or its adherents. Now just the opposite is true. Billy Graham, considered by many to be a reliable voice for Protestantism, was quoted in the December 26—January 1, 2000, issue of the National Catholic Register.
“Billy Graham’s pick for Man of the Century? Pope John Paul II. The Pope ‘has brought the greatest impact of any pope in the last 200 years,’ Graham told the Associated Press. ‘I admire his courage, determination, intellectual abilities, and his understanding of Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox difference, and the attempt at some form of reconciliation.’”
Most of my life was spent in a denomination that made a specialty of attacking Roman Catholicism, and as a result of that viewpoint I developed an unfortunate attitude toward Catholic people, especially in regards to those involved in the clergy and religious orders. The book In God’s Name helped me develop a more balanced outlook. I came away with the following perspectives:
1. I need to be forgiven for my critical attitude toward my fellow Christians in the Catholic Church. Of course my most poisonous venom was reserved for the popes. Now I believe that Pope John Paul I was murdered for the very reason that he was a genuine Christian gentleman, truly interested in initiating reform. That very desire sealed his doom.
2. The Roman Catholic organization, on the other hand, is more insidious and dangerous than I had ever believed, even in my worst bashing days. In God’s Name reveals the depth of the financial corruption inside the Vatican Bank, and the church’s close ties to the Mafia underworld. For the full picture of murder and intrigue, read the book.
In the Preface the author makes the following pertinent comment. I have supplied the underlining.
“Among those I cannot thank publicly are the people resident within Vatican City who contacted me and initiated my investigation of the events surrounding the death of Pope John Paul I, Albino Luciani. The fact that men and women living within the heart of the Roman Catholic Church cannot speak openly and be identified is an eloquent comment on the state of affairs within the Vatican.”
RELIGIOUS WARFARE IN HIGH PLACES
In virtually all man-made religious organizations, there is continuous struggle between the liberal and conservative forces of leadership. To understand what is now transpiring inside the Vatican, it’s necessary to keep this ongoing conflict in the forefront of our thinking.
In Catholicism this struggle reaches a crescendo when it comes time to elect a new pope. Once locked into the Sistine Chapel, the electors can’t emerge until they have decided on a new head for the church. The battles between left and right rage through vote after vote. Sometimes neither side is able to dominate, and then it’s necessary to elect a compromise pope. Ideally such an individual will be quite elderly, one who can be depended on to die before long. Of necessity he will be someone with few strong enemies, and relatively benign in nature. That is, he won't “rock the boat” until they can go at it again in a future election.
Twice, at least, this compromise solution has backfired. The first time was with the election of much-beloved Pope John the 23rd. Instead of quietly biding his time in the papal apartment, John convened the Second Vatican Council with the purpose of reforming Catholicism. He shook the church as it hadn’t been shaken for ages.
The second occasion was the election of the “smiling pope,” John Paul I. The day after taking office, this supposedly innocuous prelate announced his intentions of initiating a thorough investigation into Vatican finance, and selling off some of the Vatican treasures to help feed the poor. The hierarchy (either right or left) deemed neither of those plans acceptable, and he had to be eliminated.
Once again, to comprehend what is going on inside the Vatican at any given moment, one must keep in mind this endless battle between the liberal and the conservative wings.
One other vital point should be mentioned. The Pope is not, in the real sense, an absolute ruler. Even a strong pope rules only with the consent of the Cardinals and other powerful church leaders.
LICIO GELLI AND P2
I must not leave this volume without mentioning the author’s uncovering of a sinister secret society. I grew up knowing that one of the greatest enemies of the Roman Catholic Church was Freemasonry. At least six papal bulls were specifically directed against it, but truth is still stranger than fiction.
After WWII Licio Gelli, an Italian who had worked for the Nazis as an Oberleutnant in the SS, decided to move on to bigger and better things. In November 1963 he joined a Masonic Lodge. Rising rapidly in the ranks he was invited by the grand master to conceive an illegal secret organization to be known as “P2.”
Eventually P2 became a world force with nearly three hundred of the world’s most powerful men gracing its membership. Included were armed force commanders, Secret Service chiefs, generals, admirals, newspaper editors, television executives, top businessmen, bankers, along with cabinet ministers and politicians of every political shade. The list of members of P2 was secret; only Gelli knew all the names. The organization was closely interlocked with the CIA.
No one knows for sure how extensive P2 became, or is today. In Italy alone it is believed that more than 2,000 belonged to the organization. The overwhelming majority of its members was, and is, made up of practicing Roman Catholics, and P2 maintained a close relationship with the Vatican. The author says, “The most bizarre factor in the close and continuous contacts that existed between P2 and the Vatican is that various cardinals, bishops, and priests could smile so benevolently on this bastard child of orthodox Masonry.” More about this relationship later.
In 1976 the Italian government was involved in an investigation that included P2. However, magistrate Vittorio Occorsio was murdered by a burst of machine-gun fire, effectively halting the investigation into P2.
A SUSPICIOUS DEATH IN LONDON
It would be wrong to close this section without honoring the courage of David Yallop in writing the book In God’s Name. It’s one thing to do months of laborious research, but it is something else to put one’s life on the line for the sake of exposing corruption.
Had Pope John Paul I lived a little longer, one of the financial criminals he would have bared to public scrutiny was Roberto Calvi. The latter’s whole sordid career is outlined in the book, but in brief he was chairman of the Banco Ambrosiano in Milan, Italy. As such he was one of the group involved in illegal Vatican finance. He was in the process of stealing over $1 billion, and The Bank of Italy was secretly investigating his felonious dealings.
While writing his book, Yallop was able to set up a phone interview with Calvi. Here is his account of part of that conversation.
“Through my interpreter, I began to question Calvi closely about the Banca Cattolica del Vento transaction. He had been told that I was writing a book about the Vatican, and when I mentioned the bank in Venice he asked what the central subject of the book was. I told him, ‘It’s a book on the life of Pope John Paul I, Papa Luciani.’
“Calvi’s manner suddenly underwent a complete change. The calmness and control gave way to a torrent of loud remarks. His voice became excited and very emotional. My interpreter began to translate the stream of words for me.
“‘Who has sent you against me? Who has told you to do this thing? Always I pay. Always I pay. How do you know Gelli? What do you want? How much do you want.’
“I protested that I had never met Licio Gelli. Calvi had barely stopped to listen to me before he began again.
“‘Whoever you are, you will not write this book. I can tell you nothing. Do not call me again. Ever.’
“Eight days later, the body of Roberto Calvi was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge in the City of London.”
2. THE KEYS OF THIS BLOOD
The second volume of four is The Keys of This Blood by Malachi Martin, published by Simon and Schuster in 1990. A former Jesuit priest and professor at the Vatican’s Pontifical Biblical Institute, Martin might be considered a consummate insider. He died only recently.
Martin pledged total loyalty to the pope and the Virgin Mary. In fact, he took the significant step of leaving the Jesuits because he felt his order had joined with liberal forces against the conservative reign of John Paul II. As we proceed, keep this struggle in mind, for it is a major key to understanding present Vatican intrigue.
This volume deals mostly with the Roman Catholic organization’s struggle in the arena of world politics, but we are more interested in the secrets of Fatima.
THE VISION OF FATIMA
On May 13, 1981, contract killer Mehmet Ali Agca pumped bullets into John Paul II in St. Peters Square, in full view of 75,000 people and a television audience of some three and half million. Although bullets entered the pope’s torso, the two aimed at his head failed to hit their mark. At the critical moment the Pontiff bent down to greet a little girl who had a picture of Mary pinned to her blouse.
As a survivor, John Paul was sure that Mary had saved him from intended death on May 13—the official feast day of Mary as Our Lady of Fatima. While convalescing in the hospital John had, as far as is publicly known, his only supernatural vision of things to come. The vision was an exact repetition of a strange happening recorded sixty-four years before at the little village of Fatima in Portugal. It was just as if he had been present at Fatima around midday, October 13, 1917.
What happened visibly that day is not in question. All was seen and recorded by photographers and reporters, along with a crowd estimated at 75, 000. Supposedly the event had been predicted the previous July, when three peasant children claimed to have seen a vision of the Virgin Mary. Appearing monthly thereafter, Mary said she had an important message for all nations and all peoples. On October 13 she would perform a miracle to substantiate the authenticity and importance of her message.
All the night of October 12 it rained torrentially; everything was wet and sodden. Then at midday Lucia, the eldest child, exclaimed: “Look up at the sun!” This was not the ordinary sun. Instead it was described as “a fast-spinning plate of brightly shining silver, a giant pinwheel turning on its own axis, casting off beams of colored lights . . . All were able to stare fixedly at this brilliant disk, but yet without pain and without being blinded.” This “dance of the sun” lasted about two or three minutes.
Next the sun roamed back and forth among the clouds throwing off brilliant shafts of multicolored light. Then, without warning, the sun plunged in zigzag fashion toward the upturned faces of the crowd. Frightened voices called out “It’s the end of the world! We will all die!”
At last the sun returned to its normal behavior. Although not a leaf stirred, a strong wind swept through the area. When it had passed the formerly sodden crowd realized they were all dry, as was the ground beneath their feet.
THE THREE MESSAGES
Two of the three children died early in life. The other, Lucia dos Santos, is now in her nineties and lives as a Carmelite nun in Portugal. Mary had given the children three messages for mankind, and the first two became well known in the years since 1917. I won’t take time to detail them here.
In 1944, under orders from her Bishop, Lucia wrote down on one sheet of paper the bare details of the secret third message. She sealed it in an envelope, and said it was to be opened and read in 1960 as “things would be clearer then.” Under Vatican order, the envelope was brought to the papal apartment in Rome.
In 1960 it was Pope John XXIII who opened and read the Third Secret. Deciding it had nothing to do with his pontificate, he returned it to its box. His successor, Paul VI, also read it and decided to do nothing. John Paul I read the content of the document, but didn’t live long enough to act. One of the first things John Paul II did on becoming Pope was to look at the Third Secret. He decided that for certain reasons he should not act immediately.
It was after John Paul’s near brush with death on May 13, 1981, the feast day of Our Lady of Fatima, that he decided the time of the “Third Secret” had arrived in fullness. I have of necessity been very brief, but a reading of The Keys of This Blood will fill in the details.
3. THE THUNDER OF JUSTICE
The third of four volumes is The Thunder of Justice by Ted and Maureen Flynn, published in 1993 by Maxkol Communications. A Catholic couple completely dedicated to the papacy and the Virgin Mary wrote this book. Malachi Martin, who says the volume emphasizes “the special role of the Blessed Virgin Mary”, penned the Foreword.
What the Flynns have done is to recount most of the significant manifestations of the Virgin Mary, beginning in the 1500s and continuing down to our own day. The idea is that by carefully noting what Mary has proclaimed, we can both understand the past and accurately predict the future.
In order to share the content of this particular volume, I have to be totally honest about my own convictions. I do not believe that the “Virgin Mary” is the mother of our Lord, nor do I count these apparitions as telling on the side of truth. While the Virgin is said to be the ultimate prophet, I consider her a false prophet designed to deceive mankind. Who actually is she? I would suggest that the leader of the forces of darkness would not leave this key role to be played by one of his underlings.
The material in this book is of a most startling nature, and I believe that by studying it we can ascertain with a high degree of accuracy what Satan has planned for his end time strategy. It’s as though we have been allowed to peer right into the devil’s war room! This is an unusual opportunity, and I can assure you that much of what is outlined in this book will come to pass exactly as proclaimed.
Remember that one of Satan’s most effective means of deceiving is to counterfeit what God is doing, and he is a master at that trade. So don’t be surprised if much of what “Mary” says closely parallels Scripture, and goes along with what you’ve already anticipated will come to pass. In fact, I believe that what is soon coming upon the earth can safely be deciphered only through the ministry of the Holy Spirit. With his guidance you have nothing to fear, without his guidance you have everything to fear.
Again, what few nuggets should one share out of an entire volume? I’ve selected the following:
“Mary declares there will be a warning and a great miracle. The warning will be a mysterious world-wide event, in which each individual will perceive the state of his or her own soul as God sees it. The warning is a call to change our ways. Within a year of the warning, a miracle—a great supernatural sign—will follow, which will, be permanent, visible, and totally inexplicable by science. A short time after the miracle, terrible chastisement will follow, and only after a thorough ‘purification’ will come an ‘Era of Peace.’ This will not be the end of the world as many may think, but the dawn of a new epoch, a new age in which God is adored.” PP. 5,6.
(I was much interested in the reference to a “new age.”)
Much of what “Mary” revealed to the church has come through a Father Gobbi. The following was given on May 13, 1991.
“My Pope, John Paul II…I confirm for you is the Pope of my secret; the Pope about whom I spoke to the children during the apparitions; the Pope of my love and sorrow… When this Pope will have completed the task which Jesus has entrusted to him and I will come down from Heaven and receive his sacrifice, all of you will be cloaked in dense darkness of apostasy, which will then become general.” P. 236.
The Marian apparitions are not merely historical but current.
“In Medjuggorje, in former Yugoslavia, six children (now young adults) in a rural village have been seeing Mary daily and receiving messages from the Blessed Mother since 1981. That remote village has been visited by an estimated 15 million pilgrims and 15,000 clergy. It has been the hub of Marian devotion in these times.” P. 8.
The Marian vision at Garabandal, Spain, is a continuing one.
“The permanent sign that the Blessed Virgin promised will remain at Garabandal after the miracle at ‘the pines’ (a grove of nine pines outside the village at the top of a rocky lane leading up the hill). Little has been revealed about the nature of this sign. We know the following details: it will remain at the pines until the end of the world; we will be able to see, photograph, and televise it, but not touch it; no one will be able to explain it by scientific analysis.” P. 327.
Can you imagine the impact on the world if this event comes to pass exactly as described above? How many will be able to reject the message of their own senses?
“Mary” announced the last dogma on November 15, 1951.
“The Lady of All Nations is here, standing before the cross of her Son; her feet are placed in the very midst of the world, and the flock of Jesus Christ surrounds her. It is as Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix that I come at these times. I was Co-Redemtrix from the moment of the Annunciation. This is the meaning; the mother has been constituted Co-Redemtrix by the will of the Father. Tell this to your theologians. Tell them likewise that this dogma will be the last in Marian history.” P. 53.
The authors claim a high calling for “Mary.”
“Mary has a unique relationship to the Holy Trinity: she is the daughter of the Father, Mother of the Son, and spouse of the Holy Spirit.” P. 74.
Even the very elect will be deceived by what is coming on the earth unless indwelt by the Holy Spirit.
“The biggest temptation we will have is the devil who is going to imitate the voices of our loved ones. She (Mary) told me, ‘Please do not pay attention because those are not your loved ones; those are demons trying to lure you out of the house.’” P. 347.
Remember the secret Freemason society P2 in the last volume we dealt with? In a message of June 13, 1989, to Father Gobbi, the Blessed Mother warned of the danger of “Ecclesiastical Masonry” as it “seeks to destroy the foundation of unity of the Church, through a subtle and insidious attack on the Pope.” The authors of The Thunder of Justice describe the threat this way:
“Nowhere is an enemy more destructive than when he is in your own camp. Satan’s primary ploys were to divide Church from state and the Church from within itself. To date, Satan’s plan has been successful. This leads us to the topic of Freemasonry. It is a complex subject with its leaders having access and control in most economic, political, judicial, and social spheres. It is a huge world-wide network that the Blessed Mother calls the ‘secret sect,’ which has common goals and an agenda all its own. Briefly, there is a vast network in place, which is more for earthly goals of wealth and creature comforts than heavenly ones. Sadly, this network extends into the very Church itself. What could be worse than people in high places within your camp working against you? This strategy of deceit in the Church is called Ecclesiastical Masonry.” P. 228
I’ll close the discussion of this volume with a statement that will lead us into the fourth and final book.
“After the Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI remarked that the smoke of Satan was seeping into the Church of God through cracks in the wall. On October 13, 1977, Pope Paul VI told the world: ‘The tail of the devil is functioning in the disintegration of the Catholic world. The darkness of Satan has entered and spread throughout the Catholic Church even to its summit. Apostasy, the loss of the faith, is spreading through the world and into the highest levels within the Church.’” P. 213.
4. WINDSWEPT HOUSE
The last of our quartet of books is Windswept House by Malachi Martin, published in 1996 by Doubleday. It is subtitled “A Vatican Novel.”
I nearly skipped this most revealing of the four because I almost never read a novel. However, I felt impressed to buy the book and peruse it. I hadn’t gone far before I realized why Martin had chosen to put this account in the form of a novel. Actually it basically isn’t fiction, but truth so bizarre and insidious that it had to be framed in that manner or not be written at all!
Let me begin by stating a premise. Suppose that tomorrow an enemy phones and tells you that within a week he intends to kill you. Knowing his background and intense hatred, you’re sure this is no idle threat. Your days are numbered. What course can you take?
One sensible strategy would be to report the threat to all the agencies and media sources possible. If they chose to publicize the matter, it would make it much more difficult and dangerous for the killer to follow through. And if he did, at least he would be the first suspect the authorities would take in to custody.
I’ve already pointed out there is a never-ending battle within the hierarchy of Roman Catholicism between its liberal and the conservative forces. The liberal wing of the church has become openly defiant of many of the basic and historic tenets of Catholicism. That’s why Malachi Martin left the Jesuit order, as he details in his book The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Martin believed that internal warfare had reached a crescendo amounting to a life and death crisis. The liberal wing wants to take over control of the church and make drastic changes. The main object standing in their way is ultra-conservative Pope John Paul II. Many see John Paul as a loving and malleable bridge between Protestantism and Catholicism, but the truth is that this tough-as-steel pope hasn’t given an inch in anything of consequence. Protestants haven’t noticed that they are the ones doing all the compromising. They no longer “protest” much of anything.
Although Pope John Paul has admitted publicly that there is little he can do in bringing about real reform, he still blocks the liberals from taking complete control. They’ve anxiously been waiting for him to die, but somehow he just keeps shuffling on. They have tried to convince him that age has undermined his abilities and he ought to resign. Not a chance. That leaves murder, but after doing away with the previous pope, another suspicious papal death would immediately be suspect. Stalemate.
I’ve already mentioned that Malichi Martin was intensely loyal to the pope and to the Virgin Mary. He wrote “Windswept House” to bring the plot before as much of the world as possible in order to tie the liberal’s hands. It makes their plotting much more difficult. He named as many names as he dared, and it’s easy to fill in the gaps.
Before proceeding to the next section, I want to mention a brief quote that ties into what we’ve already studied. In the narrative one of the characters asks, “Are you aware, Chris, that many high-ranking prelates in the Vatican are [Masonic] Lodge members?”
THE THIRD SECRET OF FATIMA
But back to the Third Secret of Fatima. The well informed know it has to do with something much more “horrible” than a mere failed assassination attempt. It is something so sinister that few could even imagine what is taking place, and those who do comprehend are fearful of speaking up. Even Malachi Martin felt the need to hide it in the form of a novel.
The protagonists, of course, avoid the limelight; instead the plot develops in darkness. Still, there have been clues all along for those searching. The Virgin Mary is quoted as having warned:
“Even now, that which I predicted at Fatima and that which I have revealed here in the third message confided to a little daughter of mine is in the process of being accomplished. And so, even for the Church the moment of its great trial has come, because the man of iniquity will establish himself within it and the abomination of desolation will enter into the holy temple of God.” P. 3, The Thunder of Justice.
Even in his earlier book, Malachi Martin wrote briefly but candidly:
“Most frighteningly for John Paul, he had come up against the irremovable presence of a malign strength in his own Vatican and in certain bishops’ chanceries. It was what knowledgeable Churchmen called the ‘superforce.’ Rumors, always difficult to verify, tied its installation to the beginning of Pope Paul VI’s reign in 1963. Indeed, Paul had alluded somberly to ‘the smoke of Satan which has entered the Sanctuary’—an oblique reference to an enthronement ceremony by Satanists in the Vatican. Besides, the incidence of Satanic pedophilia—rites and practices—was already documented among certain bishops and priests as widely dispersed as Turin, in Italy, and South Carolina, in the United States. The cultic acts of Satanic pedophilia are considered by professionals to be the culmination of the Fallen Archangel’s rites.” P.632, The Keys of This Blood.
Eventually Martin felt a strong need to present details concerning the “smoke of Satan” inside the Vatican, and the novel Windswept House filled that need. To put the matter bluntly, the Third Secret of Fatima is the prediction that Satan boldly would set up his earthly throne right inside the sanctuary of the Roman Church, inside the Vatican itself!
Windswept House speaks of a “double ceremony—a ‘Parallel Enthronement.” The ideal place for the demonic rite would have been the Chapel of St. Paul right in the heart of the Vatican, but Vatican security is so tight in that area that such an event could not escape detection. Thus the “Parallel Enthronement.” While an innocuous ceremony was being carried out in the Vatican, another sinister rite was simultaneously taking place in a carefully chosen site in the United States. A telephone link kept the two events perfectly synchronized.
All the proper satanic paraphernalia for the desecration ritual had been carefully assembled. There were the upside down crucifix alongside the demonic Pentagram, the black candles, the charcoal and incense, the Crescent Moon, and the Bowl of Bones. A seven-week-old puppy served as the victim for the painful animal sacrifice. The highlight of the ceremony was the repeated sexual violation of a small female child. The rite ended with each participant consenting by an oath that he or she was transferring lordship and possession of the soul from the “Ancient Enemy, the Supreme Weakling, to the All-Powerful Hands of our Lord Lucifer.”
I know from experience that some have already written off this account as pure fiction, something so repulsive as to be in the realm of the impossible. Others are not so sure, aware that there is no depth to which Satan will not drag those who willingly place themselves in his control.
Malachi Martin considered our time not merely another age in the long history of earth, but rather the final age before the establishment of the Kingdom of God. To that extent I agree with his presentation. We need to prepare for the unrolling of the scroll by making sure our walk with the Lord is one of steadfast intimacy.
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