The Third Secret of Fatima is Really Very Simple...

...It is all there in the Fine Print.

When Our Lady of Fatima appeared to the Three Shepherd Children on Sunday, May 13th, 1917, only three people were there- Lucy De Santes and Jacinta and Francesco Marto.  This was not the first time Heaven had appeared to them.  Twice before, in 1916, they had received apparitions from the Angel of Portugal who had taught them two short prayers.  But these had been kept a secret from the people of that rural region of Portugal.  Likewise, the elder Lucy expressly swore little Jacinta to silence.  But the Holy Ghost had other plans.  Jacinta excitedly told her mother about the apparition.  Ma told pa, who interrogated Francesco concerning the veracity of his sister's tale.  A thoughtful Ti Marto became the first man alive to believe that in truth Our Lady was appearing to the children, while meanwhile, "doubting Thomases" abounded, including Olympia Marto and Maria Santos, Lucy's mother.  The children became the butt of ridicule throughout the area.  But meanwhile word spread that "the Lady" was going to make another appearance on June 13th.

About fifty people, the curious and the incredulous, were on hand for the June apparition.  Many of them saw the sun dim somewhat.  Some of them heard what they described as the buzzing of bees.  Most noticed that the branches of the little holm oak bush sagged somewhat, as if supporting a weight, and then all suddenly leaned in the same direction, as though a blanket had been dragged over them.  These witnesses were gauged as being more reliable.  And so, even as the heckling of the hapless children continued, and their pastor and parents thought them perhaps the victims of diabolical suggestion, word continued to spread.  The newspapers in the capital city of Lisbon caught wind of events, and reported on a conspiracy by Jesuits.  Oh, there was indeed a Jesuit conspiracy- more on that momentarily.  

For the July apparition, somewhere between five and ten thousand people were gathered on a hot dusty day on a forsaken field in the middle of nowhere.  In terms of information, this July apparition is by far the most significant.  At this time, the Three Children saw the famous vision of Hell, and Lucy was given the famous "secret" in three parts, the third of which has yet to be revealed in its entirety, more than a century later.  Meanwhile, the onlookers noticed several things- not all of them, but many of them.  First, the sun dimmed, to such an extent that the stars could be seen in the firmament above.  Next, the atmosphere noticeably cooled.  The scorching air turned rather pleasant, and a refreshing breeze blew.  As they left the precincts, stories abounded.

So much so that the Forces of the Enlightenment felt they had to act quickly and decisively.  The administrator of the local dictat, Professed Freemason Artur de Oliveira Santos, was directed to attempt to run interference for the scheduled August 13th Apparition.  On August tenth the fathers and their children were ordered to appear in court nine miles away in Ourem.  Ti Martoprudently scoffed at the order and decided to appear alone.  Antonio Santos, however, probably out of hostility towards the apparitions, compelled his daughter to comply.  According to St Sr Lucia: "The Administrator was determined to force me to reveal the Secret and to promise him never again to return to the Cova da Iria...  Seeing that he was getting nowhere, he dismissed me, protesting however that he would achieve his end, even if this meant that he had to take my life."  Now, one would think that threatening somebody with physical harm might be frowned upon in polite society.

And kidnapping even more so.  For that is precisely what happened on the morning of August 13th, when "The Tinsmith", under pretext of wanting to see the apparition himself, offered the children a ride to the site in his carriage.  But then a sudden turn was made, and the horses galloped to Ourem, where the children were imprisoned, and then traumatized by a conspiracy of Artur Santos and some of his subordinates to convince them they were being successively boiled in a cauldron of hot oil.  Failing in this, he delivered the children to the pastor of St Anthony's Church in Fatima.

Imagine that, a Catholic Priest and a Freemasonic Deputy enjoying tea and crumpets-( some said it was wine and dainties)- while waiting for the parents to show up and retrieve their kidnapped children.  Even in the United States in 1932, the alleged kidnapping of the Lindberg baby made ongoing national headlines, but, apparently, in 1917 Portugal kidnappings must have been everyday events, and the perpetrators had no compunction appearing in public.  A crowd wanted to lynch the Tinsmith on the spot, and this Wolf would have happily joined them.  Meanwhile, we have our first clue to a much deeper puzzle- the collaboration between church and state.

By the end of August 1917, might not the Vatican, and Benedict 15th, have gotten wind of the marvelous happenings at Fatima?  Already, in July, the children had been queried by several priests.  More to the point, on May 5th, 1917, just days before the first apparition of Fatima, the pope had, in a letter to the Chilean Cardinal, stated: "We therefore give you, Mr Cardinal, the task of making known to all the Bishops of the world Our ardent desire that we have recourse to the Heart of Jesus, throne of graces, and that we have recourse to this throne through Mary [to end the miseries of the Great War (WW1)]. To this end We order that, starting from the first day of next June, the invocation 'Regina pacis, ora pro nobis' remains fixed in the Litany of Loreto, which We allowed the Ordinaries to temporarily add with the Decree of the Sacred Congregation for Ecclesiastical Affairs Extraordinary on 16 November 1915."

Was Our Lady telling the Roman Pontiff that, indeed, she was not a pretty face on a holy card, or a dusty statue in the sanctuary, but that she "cometh forth as the Morning Rising... Terrible as an Army in Battle Array"?  This Wolf does suspect that if Benedict XV was half as sincere concerning the peace and welfare of Christian Civilization as he pretended to be, by September he would have had a delegation of Fatima, paving the way for a personal appearance at Fatima for that great day in October, which had already been foretold by Our Lady in response to Little Lucia's request that she work a miracle so "that all may believe" and her family might stop pestering her.

But Benedict XV, this Wolf suspects, was just pretending to oppose the war.  He knew as surely as Albert Pike, Giuseppe Garibaldi,
Cecil Rhodes,  Alfred Beit, and various Rothschilds that "World War I" was already scheduled to end on November 11th, 1918.  Meanwhile, if Fatima was real, it was definitely a threat to the Great Plan to destroy the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the Apostolic Succession.  And so the most appropriate response from the Vatican must be a "prudent silence" in the face of this obvious and ominous activity from Heaven, and a most careful opposition to the Queen of Peace.

This Wolf does believe that by the end of August the Vatican was fully aware of the events in Fatima, Portugal.  They would certainly have been made aware after the stupendous miracle of October 13th, 1917.  That event made all the papers.  Even the New York Times had an article.  But the Vatican feigned ignorance.  Instead, they and their handlers decided on a new strategy.  This manifested itself when, under pretext of opposing Portugal's involvement in World War One, Sidónio Pais "overthrew" the Masonic Republic and suddenly became chummy with the Catholic Church, abrogating anticlerical statutes and allowing the Jesuits to return.  Leaving aside the question as to how authentic he truly was- he would be assassinated by anti-clerical reactionaries on May 9th, 1918- what really matters is the permanent mitigation of anti-Catholicism in Portugal.  The Vatican, apparently, wasted no time exploiting this opportunity.  By the Bull "Commissum humilitati nostrae”, of May 15, 1920, Fr José Alves Correia da Silva was appointed bishop of the hastily re-established diocese of Leiria, before even being consecrated a bishop.  Hardly had the dust settled from his consecration on July 25th of that year, then he turned his attention to St Sr Lucia.  By 1921, at his advice, St Sr Lucia was in the school of the Sisters of St. Dorothy in Vilar, under an assumed name, and forbidden to talk about the apparitions.

At first, Bishop de Silva apparently did everything he could to discourage devotion to Our Lady of Fatima.  Seeing that the crowds would not be diminished, he finally relented, finally declaring the apparitions "worthy of veneration" in 1930.  You mean, Holy Mother Church must "discern" for some years after the greatest public miracle had been wrought since Moses parted the waters of the Red Sea some two millennia before the coming of the Redeemer?  This Wolf would have thought that the time for "discernment" had ended ten minutes after the sun had returned to its normal place in the sky on October 13th, and 70,000 people had discovered, to their amazement, that their footsteps raised clouds of dust from a landscape that had just been pelted for two days by torrents of rains "unlike anything we had ever witnessed", to quote Ti Marto.

Forgive this Wolf for suspecting that Bishop de Silva was merely the Vatican's front man for actual opposition to the message of Fatima.  At any rate, Pope Benedict XV would keep a stony, deafening silence concerning the apparitions for the last seven years of his pontificate.

And so, what of that pesky Third Secret of Fatima?  One prelate who claimed to have read the letter said the third secret has two parts, one which concerned the pope.  Could Our Lady have simply said of the Pope: "He must do penance, and then, as My Son said to Peter, Confirm the Brethren..."

You mean, THAT IS IT?  No fire from heaven.  No apocalyptical chastisement.  No wars or rumors of wars.    No revelations concerning the conspirators in the inner chambers?  Just that the pope has sinned, and needs to do penance? 

Think about all the attacks against the Faith and the Mass that have occurred since 1960.  Just think about it.

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.  You are our only hope!