TABLE OF CONTENTS

VOLUME IV

JOHN PAUL I, THE POPE OF THE SECRET

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION
• The Secret of Fatima of July 13, 1917.  • The authenticity of the manuscript published on June 26, 2000 by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Ch. 1.  THE IMMACULATE VERSUS THE ANGEL
• Msgr. Venancio’s appeal, on May 17, 1960, to the Catholic bishops of the whole world.  • The days of prayer of October 12 and 13, 1960.  • Nikita Khrushchev disarmed?  • The first scene of the Third Secret.  • Exegetical and historical commentaries.  • The Angel’s threefold call to penance.  • Sister Lucy’s pressing recommendations to her correspondents.  • The seer’s conversations with William Thomas Walsh, John Haffert, Msgr. da Louis Palha, and Father Fuentes.  • Shut off in the Coimbra Carmel.

Ch. 2.  1960: THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
• The bloody persecutions in East Europe, Asia and Africa.  • The realization of the scenes in the Secret.  • Cardinal Roncalli in Fatima.  • John XXIII, his true character.  • The Pope buries the Secret.  • Cardinal Ottaviani understands its contemporary relevance: his speech on January 7, 1960.  • The Abbé de Nantes’ report, in his Letter of January 1, 1960: the mental perversion of progressivism.  • John XXIII commits the Church to Ostpolitik.  • His pacifist and internationalist utopia.  • The chastisement of the pastors.

Ch. 3.  VATICAN COUNCIL II AND THE FATIMA REVELATIONS
• The petitions of the Council Fathers for a consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.  • Paul VI’s speech of November 21, 1964.  • From the opening of Vatican II, two contradictory spirits.  • The Council’s silence on communism.  • John XXIII’s secret commitments.  • The petitions for the condemnation of communism.  • John XXIII and Paul VI against Mary Mediatrix.  • The amalgamation of the schemas on the Church and on the Virgin Mary.  • Chapter VIII of Lumen Gentium.  • The cultus of the Virgin Mary devalued.  • The «large city half in ruins», strewn with «corpses».

Ch. 4.  THE DOGMA OF THE FAITH IS PRESERVED IN PORTUGAL
• The «steep mountain».  • The catechism of Fatima.  • The fruits of the pilgrimage.  • The renewed belief of the Portuguese in the Immaculate Conception.  • The devotion of the Rosary propagated thanks to Fatima.  • A recognised liturgical prayer?  • The perseverance of the Portuguese.  • Sister Lucy’s statement.  • Appendix 1: Sister Lucy’s short treatise on the Rosary.  • Appendix 2: Lucy’s letter to Father Pasquale on the Rosary.

Ch. 5.  DIVINE POLITICS IN THE LAND OF HOLY MARY
• The victory of the democracies and the plot against Salazar.  • Sister Lucy and the elections of November 18, 1945: divine illumination given to Salazar.  • The President’s combat against Christian Democracy.  • The inauguration of the monument to Christ the King.  • The Bishop of Porto sanctioned.  • Cardinal Cerejeira and the Letter on the Sillon.  • The defence of the overseas provinces.  • Sister Lucy’s advice.  • The pastoral letter of the Portuguese bishops, April 1961.  • December 1961: the invasion of Goa.  • The warnings of Sister Lucy, Salazar and the Abbé de Nantes.  • Salazar in conflict with Paul VI.  • The unhappy slide of the Portuguese elites.  • April 25, 1974: the Carnations Revolution.  • Saved from the direst peril by the consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.  • Appendix: President Salazar’s devotion for Our Lady.

Ch. 6.  SISTER LUCY’S PATIENCE
• Jubilee of May 13, 1967: Paul VI’s visit to Fatima.  • The meeting of Paul VI and Sister Lucy.  • The Pope’s homily and attitude.  • The seer’s devotion for the Holy Father.  • Her letter to Pope Paul VI.  • Heaven’s messenger reduced to silence.  • Her patience.  • Her correspondence with Mother Martins, and Fathers Pasquale, Gonçalves and Valinho.  • Lucy and the dogma of the faith.  • Father Dhanis’ promotions.  • Our Lady’s messenger rehabilitated by Father Alonso.  • The official expert’s works and conclusions.  • Msgr. do Amaral’s disastrous decision.  • Paul VI faces the Blue Army.  • The Ostpolitik of Msgr. Casaroli.  • Cardinal Mindszenty’s protest.  • The Third Secret responds to the appeals of the confessors of the faith.

Ch. 7.  ALBINO LUCIANI, THE ELECT OF MARY’S HEART
• The «Bishop dressed in White»: exegetical commentaries by the Abbé Georges de Nantes and Brother Bruno.  • Albino Luciani, the image of the Good Shepherd.  • Humilitas, the motto of the young bishop of Vittorio Veneto.  • His devotion for Saint Pius X, for Our Lady of Fatima.  • 1962: confronted with financial scandals.  • The takeover of the Banca cattolica del Veneto.  • Patriarch of Venice: his defence of dogma.  • Recourse to the Immaculate Mediatrix.  • Appendix: Cardinal Luciani’s homily on the Rosary.

Ch. 8.  PATRIARCH LUCIANI’S MEETING WITH LUCY
• Homily at Saint Mark’s Basilica, for the sixtieth anniversary of the apparitions.  • July 10, 1977: pilgrim to Fatima.  • July 11, 1977: his providential conversation with Sister Lucy.  • His opinion of the seer.  • The mysterious prophecy: the evidence of his entourage and close relations.  • Appendix: Cardinal Luciani’s article: In Fatima... with Sister Lucy.

Ch. 9.  JOHN PAUL I, VICTIM POPE
• The presentiment of his election.  • His agony at the conclave of August 1978.  • The iucunditas.  • A spontaneous Catholic renaissance.  • Catechist Pope.  • The Council’s legacy.  • The Immaculate, the star of his pontificate.  • His confidential remarks to Don Pattaro.  • His determination to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.  • Scathing criticisms.  • His conflicts with prelates in the Curia.  • The Abbé de Nantes’ intuitions on the causes of his sudden death.  • The Vatican’s financial embezzlements.  • John Paul I’s good health.  • His royal coup.  • His day on September 28, 1978.  • Assassinated?  • Cardinal Villot’s intrigues.  • An autopsy refused.  • Priest and victim like Jesus Christ.  • Appendix 1: Critical examination of the Vatican note concerning David Yallop’s revelations.  • Appendix 2: The conversion of Metropolitan Nikodim.

Ch. 10.  «THEY ARE DELAYING THE EXECUTION OF MY REQUEST.»
• Msgr. Wojtyla, disciple of Cardinal Wyszinski?  • The request for the consecration of Russia and the orientations of John Paul I’s pontificate.  • The assassination attempt of May 13, 1981.  • The reading of the Third Secret by John Paul I.  • Theological objections against the consecration of Russia?  • The nuncio’s parlour meeting with Sister Lucy on March 21, 1982.  • The Pope in Fatima on May 12-13, 1982: his conversation with the seer;  • his preaching and his act of offering of the world.  • Lucy’s parlour meetings with Msgr. Hnilica;  • with the Nuncio;  • with Mrs. Pestana.  • The act of offering of the world on March 25, 1984 did not respond to Our Lady’s request.  • The Abbé de Nantes’ intuitions concerning the Third Secret.  • The encyclical Redemptoris Mater.  • The interfaith meeting in Assisi.  • The Revolutions in the East.  • The travesty of Our Lady’s promises.  • The Pope in Fatima, May 13, 1991.  • Appendix 1: The act of offering of March 25, 1984.  • Appendix 2: Unjustified cautions against private revelations.

Ch. 11.  THE FALSIFICATION OF LUCY’S TESTIMONY
• Sister Lucy’s replies to Fathers Jongen and Pasquale, to Sister Marie-Abigail, and to D. Teresa da Cunha.  • Her view of the act of March 25, 1984: indubitable testimonies.  • Sister Lucy sequestered?  • Her “new” declarations from 1989.  • «Pope John Paul II is forcing Lucy...»  • Apocryphal or authentic letters?  • The specific mission of Our Lady’s messenger.  • Her obedience.  • “Messenger of her superiors”?  • The fabrications of Father Fox and Carlos Evaristo.  • The seer’s excellent health.  • Her fifth and sixth Memoirs.  • Appendix: Sister Lucy’s apocryphal letters.

Ch. 12.  SISTER LUCY’S TESTAMENT?
• Calls from the Message of Fatima.  • Stirring calls to conversion.  • Sister Lucy’s zeal and rich mystical life.  • Grave omissions.  • The principles laid down by John Paul II in his homily of May 13, 1982.  • The specific message of Fatima passed over in silence.  • The patience of an authentic emissary of God.

Ch. 13.  FALSE AND TRUE SECRET
• The processes of beatification of Francisco and Jacinta.  • John Paul II’s homily in Fatima on May 13, 2000.  • The bogus Secret: Cardinal Sodano’s communication.  • June 26, 2000: the disclosure of the Third Secret.  • The Roman dossier entitled The Message of Fatima.
• Msgr. Bertone’s omissions.  • Cardinal Ratzinger, disciple of Dhanis.  • The Cardinal’s apriorisms against the Fatima public revelation.  • Sensible or imaginative visions?  • Recapitulation of the scenes in the Secret: the parable of the events we are living through. • Sister Lucy and the Bishop dressed in White.  • The Church of martyrs.  • The wasting away of the hierarchical Church.  • The promise of the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.  • Jacinta’s visions.  • Aiding the dénouement of the Fatima drama.
 

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