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3rd Secret of Fatima and RATZ.
There are opinions that because the secret was not shared in 1960 there have been repercussions. Some feel that by disregarding the prophecies and request of Fatima, it was the Virgin Mary - it was God himself - who had been disregarded, who had been ridiculed in front of the world. Some feel that by disobeying the message of the Virgin, the conditional punishment announced in the message was, in consequence, destined to be accomplished tragically.
Why several Popes did not reveal the secret is a mystery. Scholars disagree on whether or not the 3rd secret was meant only for the eyes of the Popes or if it was to be released to the general public.
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict) is known for the Ratzinger Report. He has read the third secret.
In August 1984, he said that the 3rd secret concerned the "dangers, which threaten the faith and the life of Christians."
In the Ratzinger report, he wrote that the 3rd secret of Fatima has to do with what he called "denivissimis". This Latin expression means "dealing with the end times", pertaining to the latter days, or about the final events.
In a 1985 interview with Vittorio Messori, Cardinal Ratzinger was asked the following questions and his responses follow:
VM: Undenied versions (of the 3rd secret) are circulating in the world, which describe the contents of that secret as disquieting, apocalyptic, as warning of terrible sufferings. John Paul II himself, in his personal visit to Germany, seemed to confirm (privately to a select group) the undeniably disconcerting contents of that text. Before him, Paul VI, during his pilgrimage to Fatima, also seems to have alluded to the "apocalyptic" themes of the secret. Why was it never decided to make it public, if only to counter rash speculations?
CR: If the decision has not yet been made, it is not because the Popes want to hide something terrible.
VM: Then there is "something terrible" in Sister Lucia's manuscript?
CR: If that were so, that after all would only confirm the part of the message of Fatima already known. A stern warning has been launched from that place that is directed against the prevailing frivolity, a summons to the seriousness of life, of history, to the perils that threaten humanity. It is that which Jesus himself recalls very frequently: '..unless you repent you will all perish..' (Lk 13:3). Conversion - and Fatima fully recalls it to mind - is a constant demand of Christian life. We should already know that from the whole of sacred Scripture.
VM: So there will be no publication, at least for now?
CR: The Holy Father deems that it would add nothing to what a Christian must know from Revelation and also from the Marian apparitions approved by the Church in their known contents, which only reconfirmed the urgency of penance, conversion, forgiveness, fasting. To publish the third secret would mean exposing the Church to the danger of sensationalism, exploitation of the content.
VM: Perhaps also political implications, I venture, since it seems that here, also, as in the two other secrets, Russia is mentioned? At this point, the Cardinal declares that he is not in a position to go further, into the matter and firmly refuses to discuss other particulars.
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