Critique of alleged third secret text

EVIDENCE OF FORGERY IN THE TEXT OF THE ALLEGED THIRD SECRET
	Content: Alleged third secret is two pages, double-sided. Genuine Third Secret is written on one sheet of notepaper; Alleged third secret has 62 lines. Genuine Third Secret has approximately 23 lines; Alleged third secret does not include the first line of the genuine Third Secret, "In Portugal, the dogma of the faith will always be preserved...", nor is it a continuation or explanation of this theme; Alleged third secret makes no reference to a specific date. The genuine Third Secret mentions a specific year (1972); Alleged third secret's content fails to explain why its release to the public was suppressed for forty years. The genuine Third Secret is terrible, frightening, and apocalyptic in content; Alleged third secret is a forgery (documentation provided); Sister Lucy has been the victim of forgeries before.
	One sheet of notepaper:
	On January 9, 1944, Sister Lucy wrote to Bishop da Silva: "I have written what you asked me; God willed to try me a little, but finally this was indeed His will: [the text] is sealed in an envelope and it is on a piece of notepaper..." (quoted by Father Alonso, official archivist of Fatima, "Fatima 50," October 13, 1967, p. 11). “There is, in the first place, the marked brevity of the written Secret. Lucia tells us that she wrote it on one sheet of paper. Cardinal Ottaviani, who has read it, tells us the same thing: *'She has written on one sheet of paper (folha* in Portuguese) what Our Lady told her to tell the Holy Father.'"** (The Secret of Fatima: Fact and Legend, Fr. Joaquin Alonso, p. 65).
	Approximately 23 lines:
	After an urgent interrogation of Sister Lucy by Cardinal Ottaviani in May 1955, the Holy Office rescinded its earlier rejection of the text of the Third Secret and requested it be delivered to Rome by the Nuncio in Lisbon. Just before the envelope was brought to the Nuncio, Bishop da Silva's auxiliary, Bishop Venancio, held it up to the light: He could clearly discern the 23 lines in Sister Lucy's handwriting which comprise one of the greatest mysteries in the history of the modern world. Bishop Venancio related that once he was by himself, he took the great envelope of the Secret and tried to look through it and see the contents. In the bishop's large envelope he discerned a smaller envelope, that of Sister Lucy, and inside this envelope an ordinary sheet of paper with margins on each side of three quarters of a centimeter. He took the trouble to note the size of everything. Thus the final Secret of Fatima was written on a small sheet of paper. (The Whole Truth About Fatima, Vol. III, Bro. Michael of the Holy Trinity, p. 481)
	Alleged third secret does not include the first line of the Third Secret as written in Sister Lucy's fourth Memoirs, "In Portugal, the dogma of the faith will always be preserved...", nor is it a continuation or explanation of this theme.
	The great Fr. Joaquin Alonso, the official Fatima archivist, wrote the following concerning the Third Secret:"'In Portugal, the dogma of the faith will always be preserved'. This sentence in all clarity implies the critical state of the faith which will befall other nations. That is to say that there will be a crisis of faith, while Portugal will save its faith. Therefore, in the period which precedes the great Triumph of the Heart of Mary, the terrible things which are the object of the third part of the Secret, will occur. Which ones? If, 'In Portugal, the dogmas of faith will always be preserved,' one can deduce from it with perfect clarity that in other parts of the Church these dogmas either are going to become obscure or else even be lost altogether. Thus it is quite possible that in this intermediate period which is in question (after 1960 and before the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary), the text makes concrete reference to the negligence of the pastors themselves.... One conclusion does indeed seem to be beyond question: the content of the unpublished part of the Secret does not refer to new wars or political upheavals, but to happenings of a religious and intra-Church character, which of their nature are still more grave." (La Verdad sobre el Secreto de Fatima, Fr. Joaquin Alonso, official archivist of Fatima, Spanish Edition, pp. 80-81) The complete absence of any reference to a crisis of the faith in the alleged Third Secret text is another telltale sign that the text cannot be genuine. Pope Paul VI, who read the Third Secret, appears to have been alluding to the content of the genuine Third Secret in his Papal addresses: April 25, 1968: "Because, you know, the Church is now going through a spiritual moment of its history which is not serene, especially in some countries... It is thus, we said, not only by reason of the practical apostasy which is so widespread, but also and especially by reason of the uneasiness which troubles certain sectors of the Catholic world and affects the sensibility of those who have responsibilities in the Church. Each one knows it. After the Council, the Church has known and still knows, a grand and magnificent awakening, which we are the first to recognize and favor. But the Church has suffered and suffers still from a whirlwind of ideas and of facts which are certainly not inspired by the good spirit, and do not announce this renewal of life which the Council promised and promoted." (Pope Paul VI, Discourse of April 25, 1968, Documentation catholique, 1968, col. 875-877) December 7, 1968: "The Church finds itself in a period of uneasiness, autocriticism, we would say even autodestruction. It is like an interior confusion, sharp and complex, which no one would have expected after the Council... We thought of a flowering, of a sane expansion of the ripened conceptions of the great assizes of the Council. That aspect exists likewise. But... we come to notice above all its dolorous aspect. As if the Church were striking itself." (Pope Paul VI, Discourse of December 7, 1968, Documentation catholique, 1969, col. 12); September 17, 1969: "Numerous symptoms seem to announce grave uneasiness in the Church." (Pope Paul VI, Discourse of September 17, 1969, Documentation catholique, 1969, col. 853); December 3, 1969: "A sentiment of confusion seems to be spreading among the children of the Church, even among the best ones, and sometimes also the most qualified, those who exercise the greatest authority." (Pope Paul VI, Discourse of December 3, 1969, Documentation catholique, 1969, col. 1104); June 29, 1971: "We are at a moment of a crisis of the faith, a crisis which has repercussions indeed on other domains, on our whole religious, moral and social life." (Pope Paul VI, Discourse of June 29, 1971, Documentation catholique, 1971, col. 706); June 29, 1972: "From some fissure the smoke of satan entered into the temple of God." (Pope Paul VI, Discourse of June 29, 1972, Documentation catholique, 1972, col. 658).
	*Alleged third secret makes no reference to a specific date. The genuine Third Secret mentions a specific year (1972);*
	We know that the genuine Third Secret makes reference to a specific date, as we can discern by the statement of Pope John XXIII upon reading the Third Secret in August 1959 declared, "that does not concern my pontificate." (Fr. Joaquin Alonso, official archivist of Fatima, "La Verite sur le Secret de Fatima", French edition, page 106). Obviously, whatever date was mentioned, Pope John XXIII did not believe he would live to see it. Our Lady of the Roses message at Bayside, New York verifies that a specific date was mentioned in the Third Secret, "I say this evening, as your God, that on that date, as promised at Fatima, satan entered My Church upon earth." (June 18, 1986) Veronica Lueken, the seer of Bayside, confirmed that the "date" was 1972. This date was also confirmed by a message in 1978: "Satan, Lucifer in human form, entered into Rome in the year 1972." (Our Lady, September 7, 1978) Furthermore, the recently beatified Jacinta of Fatima worked a miracle on the apparition grounds in Bayside, New York in the form of the now famous "Jacinta 1972" photograph. As little Jacinta said at Bayside, "I wrote your picture. I wrote your picture." Veronica - And she is saying: Jacinta - "It is true; it will happen. It is true." (June 8, 1972) And also, "Jacinta warned you of the affairs of Rome. Now one remains to be fulfilled, the secret of Heaven and earth. I have entrusted you with this already, and I have asked you to prepare yourself and those you love for this eventuality." (Our Lady, December 30, 1972) Read more... We also know, from the message of October 3, 1991, that Jacinta of Fatima passed on to Mother Godinho the Third Secret. Mother Godinho in her letter to Pope Pius XII (read letter), however, altered the content of the Third Secret, included topics extraneous to it, and left out the essence of the Third Secret (that satan would enter the Church). Nonetheless, she preserved the real date that was in the Third Secret, 1972: "... to prepare for the year 1972, because the sins of impurity, vanity, and excessive luxury would bring great chastisements to the world, which would cause great suffering to the Holy Father. 'Poor Holy Father!' she would say." (Mother Godinho's letter to Pope Pius XII, April 25, 1954) Read more...
	Alleged third secret's content fails to explain why its release to the public was suppressed for forty years. The genuine Third Secret is terrible, frightening, and apocalyptic in content;
	Third Secret, terrible to read: On July 11, 1977, Cardinal Albino Luciani, the future Pope John Paul I, celebrated Mass at Sister Lucy’s convent chapel in Portugal. Then, upon Sister Lucy’s request, he conversed with her for almost two hours. He appeared visibly shaken from the conversation. He was later heard to say, “The Secret, it’s terrible.” Also, The late Fr. Malachi Martin, who had read the Third Secret, said that the Third Secret is your worst nightmare, multiplied exponentially. Cardinal Ratzinger apparently said too much about the Third Secret in the 1984 edition of The Ratzinger Report by Vittorio Messori (Messori also interviewed the Holy Father for the book, Crossing the Threshold of Hope). The 1985 edition of The Ratzinger Report was "dumbed down", striking out this insightful answer to Messori's question, "Why hasn't it [the Third Secret] been revealed?": 1984 EDITION—“Because, according to the judgment of the Popes, it would add nothing to what a Christian must know from Revelation; a radical call to conversion, the absolute seriousness of history, THE DANGERS THREATENING THE FAITH AND LIFE OF THE CHRISTIAN, AND THEREFORE THE WORLD. AND ALSO THE IMPORTANCE OF THE LAST TIMES. If it is not published—at least for the moment—it is to avoid confusing RELIGIOUS PROPHECY with sensationalism. BUT THE THINGS CONTAINED IN THIS THIRD SECRET CORRESPOND TO WHAT IS ANNOUNCED IN SCRIPTURE and are confirmed by many other Marian apparitions, beginning with the Fatima apparitions themselves in their known contents. Conversion, penance are essential conditions of salvation.” (Cardinal Ratzinger) Once asked about the Third Secret, Sister Lucy responded, “It’s [Third secret] in the Gospel and in the Apocalypse, read them!” It is also interesting to note the text of the Holy Father's May 13, 2000 homily at Fatima: “The message of Fatima is a call to conversion, alerting humanity to have nothing to do with the ‘dragon’ whose ‘tail swept a third of the stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth.’ (Rev. 12:4)” Furthermore, Pope John Paul II years ago warned at Fatima: "The successor of Peter presents himself here also as a witness to the immensity of human suffering, a witness to the almost apocalyptic menaces looming over the nations and mankind as a whole." Read more...
	*Alleged third secret is a forgery (documentation provided):*
	An official confirmation of the writing-style discrepancies between the alleged Third Secret text and Sister Lucy's genuine handwritten letters (1927, 1930, 1935, 1980, 1989) has been determined by Speckin Forensic Laboratories, an international forensic firm specializing in forgeries and handwriting, which has worked on many high profile cases, including the JonBenet Ramsey case. Speckin Forensic Laboratories has also been interviewed by the TV show, "Dateline." Because of the length of the reports involved, we now refer you to our links that present copies of the forensic report, and sample handwriting in question: Speckin Forensic Labs report, page 1 page 1 (click here for lower resolution) Speckin Forensic Labs report, page 2 page 2 (click here for lower resolution) Speckin Forensic Labs report, page 3 page 3 (click here for lower resolution) Lucy's handwriting compared to the Alleged 3rd Secret
	*Sister Lucy has been the victim of forgeries before:*
	The story goes like this: a burning question remained unanswered, whether or not the March 25, 1984 consecration by Pope John Paul II fulfilled the requirements of Our Lady of Fatima. Sister Lucy is silent for almost five years. On August 29, 1989 she apparently breaks the silence… on a word processor. Quite dramatically, Sister Lucy appears to be making up for lost time… on a word processor. In one of five letters she makes reference to a consecration made by Pope Paul VI… which never occurred. In August 1990 David Boyce from Surrey, England made a personal inquiry into many of the allegations concerning these alleged writings of Sister Lucy and her statements. Asking Fr. Kondor, the Vice-Postulator for the beatification cause of Jacinta and Francisco, “To whom must one ask permission to speak to Sister Lucy?” Fr. Kondor replied, “One must ask only Cardinal Ratzinger, for neither the Bishop of Fatima nor the Bishop of Coimbra can grant it.” “But Sister Lucy is free to write. You can write her.” As David Boyce observes, it seems odd that such great precautions are taken to prevent appointments with her, and yet correspondence is unrestricted. But this statement by Fr. Kondor contradicts a letter from Sister Lucy that appears in her Fifth Memoirs, edited in February 1989, where Sister Lucy writes to Msgr. Luciano Guerra, Rector of the Fatima Sanctuary, in these words: “The answer to your questionnaire will have to wait until later. But even now, I should warn you that there are certain questions I cannot answer for they refer to the apparitions which I am not allowed to speak of without the Holy See’s authorization. Unless you request and obtain a dispensation from the restriction, I shall have to leave these questions blank.” (Memorias da Irma Lucia, March 1990, p. 192.) So here we have a curious situation: Sister Lucy tells the Rector Msgr. Guerra that she cannot write on the apparitions in certain contexts, yet Fr. Kondor says that Sister Lucy is “free to write.” These five computer-generated letters allegedly attributed to Sister Lucy, from 1989 to 1990, contradict what she has consistently said and written in her own handwriting for 60 years on the subject of the consecration of Russia. The great Fatima expert and author Bro. Michael of the Holy Trinity was asked to comment on one of the computer-generated letters allegedly attributed to Sister Lucy of August 29, 1989 to Maria Betlem. Bro. Michael stated: “In this letter, it is uniquely a question of consecrating the world and never Russia. But at Fatima and then at Tuy, Our Lady never asked for the consecration of the world but for that of Russia alone. Mention is made of a non-existent consecration allegedly made by Paul VI on May 13, 1967. There is no mention of the only consecration of Russia ever to have been made, namely that made by Pius XII (the only one, alas) in his Apostolic Letter ‘Sacro Vergente Anno’ of July 7, 1952. The author therefore proves his ignorance of the Fatima question, and so the letter cannot be by Sister Lucia.” On October 11, 1990, Sister Lucy’s own blood sister Caroline told Fr. Nicholas Gruner in Fatima that little or no trust can be put in any typewritten letter from Sister Lucy as she does not even know how to type. We also know that Cardinal Law of Boston visited Sister Lucy in May of 1989. Sister Lucy told Cardinal Law that the consecration of Russia, per Our Lady of Fatima's requests, still has not been made. Sister Lucy told the Cardinal: “The Holy Father speculates that it has been done, done in the best possible way under the circumstances. Done on the narrow road of the collegial consecration that She [Our Lady of Fatima] has demanded and has been wanting? No, that has not been done.” (Read Our Lady of the Roses messages concerning the consecration of Russia). This hoax has been recognized in Coimbra, Portugal, where Sister Lucy resides at her Carmelite convent. In the "Diario de Coimbra", the regional daily, a letter was published from Mr. Joao Alvares on September 14, 1991. He wrote: "If Russia was really on the point of converting and if the consecration demanded by Our Lady was really accomplished, the ecumenical authorities would not need to have circulated apocryphal letters allegedly signed by Sister Lucy. The fact that those letters have been unmasked by the foreign press has hindered their spreading throughout Portugal, where they would have done a great deal of harm." Another letter was published the following month in the "Diario de Coimbra," again, from Mr. Alvares. He asked if the Church in Portugal would "recognize at least that these letters are forgeries? Will it succeed in denouncing those responsible for those letters?" (October 11, 1991, p. 2) In a written report on October 22, 1990, a highly regarded forensic expert from Canada indicated that Sister Lucy’s signature was forged on the November 8, 1989 computer-generated letter. Interestingly, it is this very letter that is quoted in the Vatican’s June 26, 2000 commentary on the alleged Third Secret. Many, many priests, bishops and lay-people have naively accepted these letters because (1) they lack judgment and discernment, (2) it is politically convenient, or (3) it is easier to follow the crowd that to think critically on one’s own. Our Lady of Fatima said, "If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace." Given the consequences of not fulfilling Our Lady of Fatima’s requests, that of the loss of souls for all eternity, and the material chastisements of enslavement and the “annihilation of nations”, discovering the truth in this matter is urgent. The need to fight valiantly for the truth and the Church is expressed beautifully by Fr. Paul Crane, S.J.: “The present is no time for manipulation, for the kind of compromise that skips the truth in the hope of ultimate advantage. This is the road that leads not to Heaven, but to hell. It can never be our road. Indeed, it is true that the one way we choose—that of faithfulness to Christ our Lord and His truth, may prove a veritable way of the cross. So be it: the servant is not above his Master. The way trod by Christ brought redemption to mankind. As Catholics, we can want no less than His way at no matter what cost to ourselves.” (Christian Order magazine, June/July 1993, London, England) "I wish at this time, My children, to repeat again the need to write, to speak, to meet with the Holy Father in Rome, and plead with him to have Lucy come forward and tell the Third Secret word for word, as I give to you each evening on My appearances upon the grounds of Bayside, and Flushing Meadows..." (Our Lady, June 18, 1986) The Third Secret "How I warned and warned that Satan would enter into the highest realms of the hierarchy in Rome. The Third Secret, My child, is that Satan would enter into My Son's Church." - Our Lady, May 13, 1978 Please offer your Masses, daily Rosaries, holy hours, St. Michael exorcism prayer, and sacrifices for the protection of our Holy Father! Remember also your local bishop and parish priests. World-renowned forensic handwriting experts, of JonBenet Ramsey case, say alleged Third Secret is not Sister Lucy's writing. *Read more . . .* WorldNetDaily, world's #1 Internet newsite states, "the newly released [Third] secret could be false..." *Read more...*

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