Our Lady of Fatima contradicted by the Council.

     Pope John XXIII, blind to Moscow’s machiavellian games and deaf to the requests of the Virgin of Fatima, cast a fatal chill on the unanimous and enthusiastic expectation of his people. He went out of his way to achieve an entente cordiale with Nikita Khruschev at the very moment when the latter was intensifying his atheist propaganda and stepping up the persecutions in Russia, closing no less than thirteen thousand churches!

     Despite the indignant protests of several members of the Roman Curia, he received Alexi Adjubei, Kruschev’s son-in-law, at the Vatican on 7 March 1963. «It may be, said the Pope, that this is an illusion, but it might also be that it is a mysterious thread which Providence is holding out to me [what folly!]. I will not change the music because of the unseemly din with which some think to impress me. I bless all men and I do not withdraw my confidence from anyone.» Absurd remarks, like so many others, of this strange “saint”...

     In the encyclical Pacem in terris, he advocated the subversive Utopia of a pacifist coexistence, effectively disarming the Church and the West before the world revolution which had no intention itself of disarming.

     To secure the presence of Russian observers at Vatican II, John XXIII agreed to the demands of the Soviets: the agreement was concluded between the young, indeed excessively young, Mgr Nikodim, the foreign affairs delegate of the Patriarchate of Moscow, and Cardinal Tisserant, at Metz on 18 August 1962.

     «The Pope, wrote the Abbé de Nantes, assured Moscow that the Council would not condemn Communism, in exchange for which two Russian Orthodox (and Communist spies) would sit through the whole Council… as “observers” (sic!). The die had been cast, and, it must be said, it involved an unparalleled betrayal: the Church would abandon on a point of capital importance her chief function, her doctrinal magisterium, her rights and her duties, and she would refuse to condemn Communism. In exchange for this silence, she would allow herself to be infiltrated by the agents of the most appalling power of persecution and oppression the modern world has ever seen.

     «The fact is – and it involved a patent fraud that has been denounced a hundred times over, a fraud that was not just sanctioned but covered and assumed by supreme authority – despite the petition of numerous Fathers, there was no condemnation of atheist Communism at the Council, no anathematisation of its Christian accomplices and sidekicks, no denunciation of its enslaving and persecuting imperialism. The greatest Council of all time (as it styled itself) remained deaf and blind to the greatest phenomenon of inhumanity of all time: the world expansion of Bolshevism. In this way it quietly lent it its decisive aid.» (The Church dances to Soviet time, English CRC n^o 111, June 1979, p. 3)

     Ever Father Wenger, the editor of La Croix, was surprised by the direction which the Pope had given the Council. On 10 September 1962, he announced to his readers: «John XXIII will launch a solemn appeal for prayer and penance.» The next day, he was disillusioned: «The papal message of 11 September says nothing at all about any of this.»

     One month later, on 11 October 1962, in his opening speech to the Council, John XXIII took up a position that was diametrically opposed to the prophetic vision of the Third Secret. He defied the authority of the Immaculate Mother of God: «We feel we must state our complete disagreement with those prophets of gloom who are always forecasting disaster, as though the end of the world were at hand.» Could this refer to us? I do not know, but it certainly referred to Her!

     We saw Our Lady of Fatima anathematised by the Vicar of Her Son at the opening of the Council, on the feast of Her Divine Maternity, 11 October 1962!

     From one session to the next, the Council introduced doctrinal novelties in radical opposition, both in the spirit and the letter, to the urgent demands of the Virgin Mary regarding the act of reparation and the consecration of Russia.  It was simply not possible to extol “the spiritual values present in every religion” and at the same time to stage a solemn and public act of reparation for the crimes and acts of impiety committed in Russia by the Bolsheviks.

     Our Lady had asked the Pope to use his sovereign authority to ensure that all the bishops performed this act as well: «Let the Holy Father deign to make and order all the Catholic bishops also to make...» But at the Council the progressivist Fathers violently contested papal authority: against the absolute and personal power of the Pope, the supreme and immediate head of all the bishops, they exalted the power of the episcopal college, «the holder of supreme and plenary power over the whole Church».

     What is more, they were so concerned not to displease the “observers” from the Protestant communities that the Council Fathers gave way on the privileges of the Immaculate. As our Father explained, «They no longer wanted to hear about Her beauty, Her glory, Her grace, but only Her service! And this in the openly declared intention of reintegrating “Mary” within humanity alongside sinners, whereas the tradition and devotion of the centuries had preferred to situate Her as Coredemptrix alongside Christ the Saviour and as Mediatrix alongside God.» (English CRC n^o 32, October 1972, p. 7)

     In application of the Council’s directives, the liturgical reform reduced the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary to a simple optional memoria, fixed for the Saturday following the Second Sunday after Pentecost. This feast, therefore, does not have its own proper office, and it ranks after all the ordinary feasts of the saints and the obligatory memorias. As Father Alonso wrote, «Sister Lucy undoubtedly suffered deeply from the new liturgical reform.»

     Mgr Venancio, the then Bishop of Fatima, was no less afflicted. He had hoped that the Council would take account of the revelations and requests of Our Lady. In his letter of 30 December 1959, addressed to the Secretary of the Preparatory Commission of Vatican II, he observed: «Generally speaking, it seems that our experts, and even a fair number of the bishops, have a profound contempt for private revelations. Does not this show a fundamental contempt for God who has supreme freedom to dispense His gifts and communicate Himself to souls as He sees fit?» An admirable protest, which was to remain without answer.

Paul VI despises both the message and the messenger.

     Alas, the Pope himself was going to scorn the Queen of Heaven even while he was proclaiming at Fatima, for the fiftieth anniversary of the Apparitions, what the Abbé de Nantes called a «counter-message»! To grasp the enormity of the scandal, it is necessary to read the Letter to my friends of 13 May 1967, where the theologian of the Catholic Counter-Reformation reports on the journey of Paul VI to Fatima and analyses his staggering speeches.

     At Fatima the Sovereign Pontiff received lengthy applause from the prayerful and penitent Portuguese crowds, it is true. But when he mounted the podium, «he passed rapidly by the statue of Our Lady without greeting it, without praying before it, without even looking at it». Similarly, he had Sister Lucy leave her Carmel to take part in the pilgrimage ceremonies. But when the people saw her by the side of the Pope, she was weeping. Paul VI had had her led away, refusing her request for a private interview with him.

     Several days later the Pope would tell his friend Jean Guitton the impression that the humble messenger of the Immaculate had made on him: «Oh! she is a young girl (sic!), very simple, an uncomplicated peasant woman. The people wanted to see her, so I showed her to them.» Odious words which will never be erased from our memories!

     As for Our Lady’s revelations, Paul VI ignored them. Commenting on his speeches, the Abbé de Nantes remarked: «There is nothing here to remind us of Fatima, its miracles, its message! No allusion at all, unless it was so veiled as to appear indecisive! No affirmation of the reality of the deeply moving interventions of the Virgin Mary in the affairs of our world! Not a single quotation of the words heard, nor of the secrets subsequently revealed, nor of the prayers taught the three children! Moreover, Paul VI had no wish to visit any of the locations honoured by the apparitions. He received great praise for the discretion he displayed regarding revelations “which cannot be a matter of divine faith”. But by refusing to accredit them, be it by a gesture of personal devotion or by a cry of heartfelt conviction, Paul VI, whether consciously or not, succeeded in discrediting them. Indifference in such matters plays into the hands of irreligion. And to talk of the Virgin Mary’s heavenly intercession and ideal value in terms of “spiritual aesthetics”, amounts to a stubborn rejection of Her very precise intervention – all too precise! – in contemporary history, an area where many would have preferred Her not to have given the lie to pretensions, ideas and hopes that are entirely human […].

     «In the Virgin Mary’s message, peace continues to be a gift from God granted as a response to the prayers and penance of His Catholic Church. In Paul VI’s message peace is the work of men towards whom the Church’s love, her worship and now even her very prayers are addressed! Here the invocation to God becomes little more than a stylistic device, an act of clerical prudence, paving the way for the invocation to men... “Men, make yourselves worthy of the divine gift of peace. Men, be men. Men, be good, be wise, be open to the interests of the general well-being of the world. Men, be generous”», etc. (Lettre à mes amis n^o 246, 13 May 1967, p. 6-8)

     The answer of “Men” to these incantatory litanies was not long in coming. On 5 June 1967, only three weeks after Paul VI’s visit to Fatima, the Six Day War threatened to set the world on fire. The Israelis seized Jerusalem and planted their flag on Mount Sinai, whence it would not be taken down until 1979.

     At this time, Father Dhanis, the indomitable enemy of Fatima, received a string of promotions at Rome, because «Paul VI had great confidence in him». However, Father Joaquin Alonso, a Spanish Claretian, charged by Mgr Venancio with establishing a complete critical history of the apparitions and message of Fatima, continued the work of his valiant predecessor, the Rev Fr Fuentes, and in 1975 completed a monumental work contradicting the odious lampoons of Dhanis. Its publication, in twenty-four volumes, was no sooner announced than, by a blow of the devil, it was deferred sine die by the new bishop of Fatima, Mgr do Amaral. The fact is that the official expert had established with absolute certainty the complete truth about the overall message of Fatima.

Sixtieth anniversary:
the meeting of two saints (11 July 1977).

     Mgr Luciani, whom we encountered earlier, was appointed Patriarch of Venice on 15 December 1969, at a time when the second period of Paul VI’s papacy was dragging on, the period which our Father will call «the time of anxiety». After a period of rosy dreams and easy popularity (1963-1967) would come this other side of the coin (1968-1975), eventually leading to «contestation and decline» (1976-1978). However, our Father concluded his analysis with a prognostic full of supernatural hope:

     «Expiation will come, whether in this world or the next, only God knows. But when that hour sounds, Pope Saint Pius X will return; through his intercession, his example and his doctrine, the Church will once again flourish.» (The great apostasy: Paul VI and his Masdu, French CRC n^o 97, October 1975, p. 14).

     Now the fact is that it was at Venice itself, in 1969, that Saint Pius X returned... We refer to Don Luciani, inhabited by the same Spirit as his predecessor Don Sarto. Ignored by all, he decided to change nothing in his traditional doctrine, his well-tempered reformism, his poor and modest way of life, and his predilection for the little and the unfortunate of this world; he would astonish and scandalize this aristocratic city by his incomparable gentleness and simplicity, his large mountain shoes, his bicycle, his comings and goings by vaporetto...

     But he would alienate the progressivist priests of the industrial suburbs far more seriously by his popular apostolate which ran completely counter to their views on class struggle and social materialism... and which was so much more successful than theirs.

     He would quietly go his honest way, concealing, under a smile that every day became more heroic, the sadness and suffering occasioned by the insults of his priests, of those whom he wished to love and serve as brothers and friends. Created cardinal in 1973, our young and dynamic patriarch reacted vigorously against the scandalous campaigns of his clergy attacking the recitation of the Rosary. In this we see the first signs of the convergence between the humble cardinal, still unknown to the world, and the Carmelite nun of Coimbra, Sister Mary-Lucy of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart who, at the same time, was denouncing in her correspondence the campaigns of denigration waged by the progressivists against the Rosary.

     And now we come to the great marvel... the meeting of these two saints in 1977, one year before the election of the patriarch to the sovereign pontificate. It was rather like the meeting between Saint Francis de Sales and Saint Jane de Chantal. It took place without any preliminaries, intrigues or clever admission stratagems. It was so simple. Cardinal Luciani’s confessor, Fr Leandro Tiveron, suggested he accompany the Venice diocese’s pilgrimage to Fatima, arranged in honour of the sixtieth anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady: «Yes, I will gladly go, he answered enthusiastically. It is a desire I have long had in my heart. It is a promise I have made the Madonna.»

     For the organisation of this pilgrimage, Madam Olga, Marquesa de Cadaval, one of his old friends of the Portuguese high aristocracy, advised him to write to the Patriarch of Lisbon or to the Vatican. She herself told our Brother Francis of Mary of the Angels how the cardinal reacted to her suggestion:

     «I WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH THE VATICAN! THE DEVIL IS IN THE VATICAN!»

     In France the Abbé de Nantes had been saying the same thing for years to anyone who wished to listen to him or read him: «SATAN STROLLS AROUND THE CHURCH AT HIS LIBERTY.» (Lettre à mes amis n^o 250,  25 August 1967).

     It is worth pointing out that in Italy, Vatican money is called lo sterco del diavolo: «the devil’s sh..»! More seriously, it should be mentioned here that the Patriarch had already run up against the Milanese and Vatican mafia, at whose hands the Banca Cattolica del Veneto had fallen foul in 1971!

     Thus, on 10 July 1977, he was in Fatima, taking part in the solemn concelebration, before more than twenty thousand pilgrims. It was he who gave the sermon. A chaplain from the Sanctuary of Fatima told Brother Francis of the charming parable which provided its theme, so in keeping with Cardinal Luciani’s usual style:

     «Souls, after their particular judgement, arrive at the door of Heaven and wish to enter. From behind the door Saint Peter asks them to wait. He can no longer find the key. He searches for it in vain, when the soul of a devout woman who understands how things work exclaims: “I’ve got the key to open it!” She pulls out her rosary and slides the small cross of the rosary into the lock. The door opens.» And the Cardinal concluded: «It is your rosary which will open the door of Heaven to you.»

     Having said this with an ineffable smile, he quoted the prayers of the Angel and the words of the Blessed Virgin:

     «The words and requests of the Blessed Virgin to the little shepherds are like a cry repeated at every apparition, in that year so heavy with misfortunes for mankind. Our Lady asks us to pray, to do penance, to make sacrifices in reparation for the offences committed against Her Son Jesus and against Her Immaculate Heart.

     «Let us say the Rosary ourselves, either alone or with our families.

     «My brothers and sisters, dark storm clouds are passing over mankind. Our heart is troubled. Yet, the Blessed Virgin told the children of Fatima at the apparition of 13 July: “In the end My Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to Me and she will be converted, and the world will be given a period of peace.”»

     He could not have put it better, given that he was himself to become “the Holy Father”! Sister Lucy was going to tell him this, in the course of a moving tête-à-tête, on the following day at Coimbra!

     For on the morning of that 11 July, just after he had finished concelebrating Mass in the chapel of the Carmelites, the Sister told him, through her Mother Prioress, that she ardently desired to speak to him. Surprised and suddenly intimidated, as though at an Annunciation, the Cardinal answered that he would be very pleased to pay his respects to Sister Lucy.

     The moment was a solemn one, my very dear brothers! Let us admire the profound humility of this prince of the Church, who makes himself the docile instrument of the Blessed Virgin. Our Lady wanted to bring about this interview between Her servant and Her messenger, for he himself, in his extreme humility, would never have dreamed of asking for this private meeting. In his Easter 1978 sermon he would give his diocesan faithful a very frank account of it:

     «It never occurred to me to think that Sister Lucy was lower in status than myself, a bishop and cardinal. On the contrary, I thought: “What good luck for me to be able to speak with this little sister who saw the Madonna!” The only real greatness in the Church is not to hold such or such an office, but to be saints.

     «During the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus, women played a more edifying role than did the men. Jesus did not call women to preach, as He did the seventy-two disciples or the twelve Apostles. On the other hand, he wanted them to be a source of help and encouragement to the Apostles. He would follow the same method down through the centuries: He would send a Catherine of Siena, a Teresa of Avila, a Bernadette, a Lucy dos Santos, an Armida Barelli, to encourage bishops and Popes.» What tranquil, Salesian boldness is shown by this chosen one of the Immaculate!

     Lucy dos Santos was sent to this great and modest Prince of the Church, at the time a cardinal and Patriarch of Venice, but soon to be clothed in the white immaculate soutane. Their conversation was prolonged for almost two hours. When he left, his face was pallid, gripped by intense emotion. Eluding all indiscreet questions, it would not be long before he told his close associates:

     «I must return to Fatima; I wish to speak to the Madonna. Sister Lucy has left a great unease in my heart. I will never be able to forget Fatima.»

     A few days later, under the title “At Fatima...  with Sister Lucy”, the patriarch published a report of his interview in the Venice weekly, Gente Veneta, expressing a veneration for Our Lady’s messenger, in eloquent contrast with Paul VI’s judgement quoted earlier:

     «Sister Lucy is seventy years old, but she carries her years valiantly, as she herself assured me smiling. She did not add, like Pius IX, “I carry my years so well that I have not dropped one of them.” Her jovial character, her easy conversation, and the passionate interest that Sister Lucy displays towards everything that involves the Church of today with all its grave problems, are a testament to her youthfulness of mind.»

     But now we come to the important part: «Sister Lucy did not speak to me about the apparitions.» So what were they so intimately discussing during the whole of these two hours? they who did not know each other, and had never communicated their secrets to each other in this way!

     He would eventually open his heart to his nearest and dearest. At the beginning of the year 1978, he preached the Lent sermon in his home town, Canale d’Agordo. His brother Edoardo and his sister-in-law, with whom he was staying, noticed how absorbed he seemed, quite lost in thought and impenetrable. On 27 February, at dinner, his sister-in-law noticed that he was very pale and appeared to be distressed.

     He excused himself, took his breviary and, without further explanation, retired to his room. The following evening he showed the same indisposition. Signora Luciani asked him if the food she was serving him was the cause.” The Cardinal answered: «I was thinking about what Sister Lucy told me at Coimbra.»

     Twice he repeated: «Sister told me…» without completing his sentence.

     «Later, Edoardo Luciani would explain, when we had gathered up all the allusions made by my brother, everything became clear. The seer had told him something that concerned not only the Church, but his own life as well, the destiny that God was preparing for him.»

     In reality, the «destiny» of Cardinal Luciani was one and the same with that of the Church. But it was only later that the Third Secret would reveal this to us.

     Sister Lucy did not reveal the Secret to Cardinal Luciani any more than she had to Father Fuentes to whom she had said: «I cannot give you further details because it is a Secret.» But one apparently innocuous expression, mentioned in passing in the account published in the Venice weekly Gente Veneta, leads us to believe that she made the same confidences to the cardinal as she had to Father Fuentes twenty years earlier: «She is radical like all the saints, writes Cardinal Luciani: it is either todo or nada, either “all” or “nothing”, if one seriously wants to belong to God.» This is exactly what the seer said to Father Fuentes: «Hence, from now on, either we are for God or we are for the devil; there is no middle way.»

The smiling Pope.

     Pope Paul VI died on 6 August 1978. On the day before his departure for Rome, where he was to take part in the Conclave, Cardinal Luciani was walking through some lanes in one of Venice’s poor districts. Some children shouted out joyfully: «Look, look! There’s the next Pope!»

     The cardinal answered smiling: «Oh! no, it will not be me, but someone else and, whoever he is, let’s say a Hail Mary together for him.»

     The episode is worthy of the fioretti of Saint Pius X. Despite his denials, Cardinal Luciani was forced to recognise, in such circumstances, that truth comes from the mouth of children. For he knew after his conversation with Sister Lucy in the parlour at Coimbra the previous year that he would be Pope.

     «At the Conclave, Cardinal Malula will recount, I met Cardinal Luciani. I embraced him because the voting had already indicated that something was afoot. The Patriarch said to me: “Tempestas magna est super me. A great storm is above my head.”»

     When the first scrutiny was beginning on the afternoon of 26 August, Cardinal Sin, his neighbour at the Conclave, told him: «I am sure it is you who will be the new Pope.» Once his election had been secured, Cardinal Luciani said to him: «You were a prophet, but my pontificate will be short.»

     On 3 September, the feast of Saint Pius X, the day of his enthronement, before the ceremonies began, John Paul I spent a long time in prayer in the crypt of the Vatican Basilica, before Saint Peter’s tomb, under the altar of the Confession, as Saint Pius X had done at that same moment of his election in order to calm the terrible tumult of his soul. Everyone was waiting.  Cardinal Felici approached him and whispered in his ear the liturgical greeting: «May the Lord grant you happiness on this earth!» To which this holy Pope, having regained his calm and spirit of adoration, answered him smiling: «Yes, happy on the outside, but if only you knew, Eminence, what I feel inside!»

     The truth is that the thought of Fatima and SisterLucy never left him. He spoke about this to Don Germano Pattaro, his theologian friend from Venice, who was moreover very involved in the postconciliar ecumenical movement: «It is something that has been troubling me this whole year. I have lost my spiritual peace and tranquillity as a result. What she told me has become a weight on my heart. I would have liked to confide all this to someone dear to me, to my brother Edoardo, but I did not manage to do so. This thought was too uncomfortable, too contrary to my whole being. It was not credible, and yet Sister Lucy’s prediction has proved to be true. Here I am. I am Pope.

     «If I live, I shall return to Fatima to consecrate the world and the peoples of Russia in particular to the Blessed Virgin, in accordance with the indications she gave to Sister Lucy.»

The Pope of the holocaust.

     «If I live»… He appears to have been forewarned – by what premonition? – that he would not live long. As though it was written. But so it was! in the Third Secret…

     In the same way Jesus had informed His Apostles that it was necessary for Him to suffer and to die.

     The same premonition appears in the analyses of the Abbé de Nantes, in his editorials for September and October 1978: «On the evidence of his past, I immediately announced that John Paul I was “another Saint Pius X without knowing it” (English CRC n^o 102, September 1978), and I was preparing to write the chronicle of the first astonishing month of his reign under the premonitory title of “The Pope of the holocaust” to indicate what was already brewing. The holocaust came rather sooner and in a rather different way from what I was about to relate, but the truth of the sacrifice and the holiness of the victim are no less apparent and the effects no less decisive.» (The saint that God gave us, English CRC n^o 103, October 1978)

     From the very first days, the malevolent remarks of false brethren pierced the new Pope with their “murderous shafts” and their coarse contempt, like so many brutal blows. It was reminiscent of Jesus in His Passion. This is what International Catholic Information wrote:

     «Seen from closer up, the perpetual smile lacks that nuance of candour found in the photographs and expresses something bordering on cunning. An Italian friend pointed this out to me on the telephone – and he intended it as a compliment: he is furbo, which is not to be understood in the unpleasant sense of our French “fourbe” (treacherous), but which does nevertheless indicate craftiness.» (15 October 1978)

     The Times even goes so far as to tell us that he walks like a «plumber entering an apartment». Le Monde maliciously insinuates that the popular character of his catechesis and his aversion for the contortions of theology «comes from the fact that he has not done a lot of study». And Minute pokes fun at him: he is «the Don Camillo of the Vatican». Spittle in the face like this tends to stick.

     Just as Saint John accompanied Jesus to Jerusalem and witnessed His terrible altercations with the high priests and the Pharisees, so our Father understood that confrontation was inevitable, and that it would be merciless and deadly. Having drawn attention to the doctrinal treasure hidden beneath the benign form of the “parables” with which John Paul I spiced his preaching, the theologian of the Catholic Counter-Reformation drew attention to something that no one had noticed:

     «Sometimes parables herald the coming controversy, like Christ’s terrifyingly direct allegories in Jerusalem, which made the scribes and the Pharisees grind their teeth, for they saw themselves exposed therein, and they were possessed by a desire to kill Him.»

     But what finally brought to a head the plots of his adversaries was money. «John Paul I, if he had lived one month longer, would have begun to clean out the Augean stables, starting with the Vatican, wrote our Father. And it is for this very reason that he did not live. Already he knew, and yet he continued on his path, with a smile in his eyes and the firmest resolve in his heart.»

     On 28 September John Paul I started to act. And on the 29^th he was dead... In Rome the cry was unanimous on that morning of 29 September: «Hanno mazzato il Papa!» They have killed the Pope! The rumour became so widespread that La Croix found itself obliged to tell its readers about it: «They have killed him, say the people of Rome.» Rather awkwardly, Jean Potin added: «“They” doubtless (doubtless!) designating the cares of the universal Church, but even more so the Vatican administration with all its complex machinery... For it seems that John Paul I collapsed under the weight of his papal responsibilities, every day forcing him to confront new files each with its own difficult problems to be resolved.» (La Croix, 1-2 October)

     The Abbé de Nantes commented: «If we are to believe Jean Potin, it was undoubtedly the machinery, the files, the problems which killed the Pope and not those who stand accused by the people of Rome. Will we ever know for sure?»

     Yes, eventually we would know:

     Five years later, there was published a book written by David Yallop, an English Roman Catholic by birth, under the title IN THE NAME OF GOD, 434 pages of rigorous and meticulous investigation, confirming all our suspicions: Pope John Paul I was well and truly murdered.

     Twenty-two years later, the publication of the Third Secret of Fatima not only confirms Yallop’s statements, but even presents Heaven’s response to the act of faith expressed by our Father in his editorial for October 1978: «What is certain is that God permitted the death of His servant, and the Church will continue along the same path despite her enemies.»

     This is exactly what was announced by the vision contemplated in advance on 13 July 1917 by the seers, in an immense light which is God, enigmatically, as in a mirror. The death of the bishop dressed in White in the Third Secret of Fatima is a redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of the Good Shepherd giving his life for his sheep.

The devil’s revenge.

     In answer to Jean Potin’s claim that it was the weight of the files that had crushed the Pope, our Father replied: «For myself, in this murder I make no distinction between the files and the bearers of the files.» (English CRC n^o 103, October 1978)

     This is exactly what Yallop established: the files are inseparable from those who signed them.

     Ever since the Lateran Treaty signed by Pius XI and Mussolini in 1929, the Church has been established, founded, not on the Rock, on Peter, but on Mammon: on a pile of gold, the price of the Papal States which the Church surrendered in return for this nest egg.

     In his review of Yallop’s book, our Father explains the consequences of this treaty, which could easily be foreseen, the very same which had led Saint Pius X to refuse the mountain of money that Aristide Briand had offered the Church of France in 1906:

     «The Vatican thus became in 1929, fifty-five years ago, a financial consortium, an element of that “anonymous and vagabond fortune” so vigorously denounced by the Duke of Orleans in 1900. The only lucrative activity known to such a fortune is speculation on the money market, the seesaw of international markets, the laundering of dirty money, the evasion of capital taxes, etc., all of which activities are simply illegal or absolutely criminal.»

     «The German ecclesiastical tax, the kirchensteuer, instituted by the Hitler-Pacelli concordat of 1933 added a regular and powerful increase to the already large stream of capitalist profit coming in from the Italian treasury. A quick speculation on gold, at the approach of the war which Pius XI knew to be unavoidable, allowed Nogara to increase Vatican Incorporated’s financial power in a fabulous manner.» (English CRC n^o 172, October 1984)

     It can hardly be said that all this was perfectly Catholic, especially when we know from the Second Secret of Fatima that the war had been rendered unavoidable THROUGH THE FAULT OF PIUS XI!

     In 1942, Mussolini exempted the Holy See from the payment of tax on dividends. But in 1967-68, the Italian State wished to abolish this tax exemption.

     It was then that Paul VI organised the flight of capital, in such enormous proportions that the whole of Italy was plunged into a serious economic crisis, hitting the poorest hardest. All of which intrigues are condemned in his encyclical Populorum Progressio (1967)! As our Father wrote, «it is the living parable of the mote and the beam».

     It was above all the starting point of the criminal practices which would lead to the murder of Pope John Paul I. One crime leads to another. «Systematic blackmail and corruption ensued, evenutally followed by the Italian Solution, which consists in creating a climate of intimidation by killing a magistrate who wants to know too much, a troublesome police officer or an imprudent mafioso» or a Pope who is too economical?

     Good God, is that possible?

     David Yallop recreates this infernal web of intrigue so rigorously that no one has been able to disprove him on the least detail. Read Yallop! It is implacable, all the more so in that, well before him, someone «had seen the whole thing clearly», as the Abbé de Nantes points out. «Since 1972 in fact. It was our dear and untainted Albino Luciani. After the takeover of the very clerical Banco Ambrosiano of Milan and its transformation into a clearing house and a laundry for cleaning dirty money made from the sale of drugs and other such filth, our mafiosi moved in with the same perverse and criminal intentions to seize hold of the honest and very clerical Banca Cattolica del Veneto.

     «Of all the bishops of Venetia, Luciani was the only one who dared to protest. He made enquiries and discovered that, with the agreement of Paul VI who was the chairman and managing director of his dear bank, nicknamed the “Priests’ Bank”, Marcinkus had sold it to Calvi without the knowledge of the bishops of the province, who were the bank’s true guardians and guarantors. Profoundly indignant, our saint went to voice his indignation in Rome where he found only Benelli to share his grievance and assuage his anger, and Marcinkus, who showed the door to this wretched man dressed in a soutane with his poor worn out shoes, as it is said…»

     And now Albino Luciani was returning… this time as the master, as the Pope! «When the Cardinals elected Albino Luciani to the Papacy on that hot August day in 1978, writes Yallop, they set an honest, holy, totally incorruptible Pope on a collision course with Vatican Incorporated.» He had to be prevented from «digging into the bank». At all costs.

     «A collision was inevitable. The immovable integrity of Albino Luciani was about to confront the irresistible market forces of the Vatican Bank», which was controlled by Cardinal Villot and Bishop Marcinkus, their accomplices Michele Sindona and Roberto Calvi, all members or associates of the P2 Lodge, and their protector Licio Gelli its Grand Master.

     «There was to be no brutal collision. That had to be avoided at all costs. It would have to be a gentle impact, so insignificant that confidence would reign without so much as a ripple to disturb the surface and that business could continue without the least interruption. It would all be very simple, perfectly discreet and silent. It would be the perfect crime.»

The regal blow.

     Yallop relates: «On Sunday, August 27^th, Luciani asked Villot to continue as Secretary of State “for a little while, until I have found my way”.»

     This provisional measure alone represented a silent threat, observed our Father. In this way he kept his enemies under his control and within his sight while he contemplated the regal blow that would bring them down for certain. There would be no early retirement for Villot until everything had been brought to light!

     «He instructed his newly confirmed Secretary of State to initiate an immediate investigation. There was to be a review of the entire financial operation of the Vatican, a detailed analysis of every aspect, carried out discreetly, quickly and completely. No department, no congregation, no section was to be excluded.»

     The Pope would decide on an appropriate course of action once he had considered the report.

     Our Father writes: «One thinks of that verse from Saint Mark’s Gospel: “And the Pharisees went out and at once began to plot with the Herodians against Him, discussing how to destroy Him.” (Mk 3.6). Him, Jesus. And this was right at the beginning of His ministry...»

     Roberto Calvi felt distinctly unwell at this news. Already pursued, he would be dragged down by the fall of his only moral guarantor, Marcinkus. «If by some miracle Albino Luciani were to drop dead before Marcinkus was removed, then Calvi would have a breathing space.» He turned to Gelli, who reassured him: «The problem [of the miracle!] could and would be resolved.»

     Sindona was also at bay: close to being extradited from the United States and handed over to Italian justice, his extradition would be a foregone conclusion if he lost his international guarantor, Bishop Marcinkus.

     As for Cody, the scandalous archbishop of Chicago, the fact that he had passed hundreds of thousands of dollars through the Vatican Bank to Paul VI and the Polish bishops [fancy that!] would not count as a mitigating circumstance before John Paul I’s moral tribunal. He was to be dismissed without further ado.

     This fine set of men were all extremely keen that somebody should perform the “miracle”. As they knew, when a Pope dies, all decisions yet to be publicly announced, die with him, unless his successor decides to carry them through. If only the requested miracle would come about, then they would have a respite to ensure their survival, and this time, as at the election of Paul VI, they would arrange for a good Pope to be appointed!

     On 28 September 1978, after a stormy audience with Cardinal Baggio who refused to leave Rome to succeed him at Venice, the Pope telephoned Cardinal Felici, who was at Padua, to tell him of the difficult confrontation he had had with Baggio whose refusal to accept Venice had nevertheless surprised him! Then he called Benelli to tell him of his imminent appointment as Secretary of State, a decision he would make known to Cardinal Villot that same evening,

     Then he received this man.

     The Pope had studied his report on the Vatican Bank. First decision: Marcinkus was to be replaced by Mgr Abbo, an honest man. Not in a month, not in a week. Tomorrow. It was necessary to dismiss not only Marcinkus, but his whole mafia, and to cut all links, in the shortest possible period, with the Banco Ambrosiano group of Sindona and Calvi.

     The Pope passed on to the problem of Chicago and the ultimatum to be given to Cardinal John Cody. Villot voiced approval. For him it was a case of good riddance. Finally the Pope informed Villot of his determination to see Baggio go where he was told to go... But the Sovereign Judge had not yet finished, and what was to follow disturbed the Cardinal Secretary of State:

     «Benelli was to become Secretary of State. He would take over Villot’s job.» As our Father wrote, «such an act of authority had not been seen since the time of Saint Pius X. Seventy-five years earlier, Pius X had broken the power of his predecessor Leo XIII’s formidable Secretary of State, the freemason Cardinal Rampolla!»

     Villot pretended to reflect deeply at this regal blow, this quiet thrust which had completely unseated him and at the same time stripped him of all his powers. Including that of performing “miracles” with the aid of the devil. Never again.

     «I thought, he articulated, that you were considering Casaroli as my replacement?»

     With Casaroli there would be no getting away from the mafia.

     Villot then objected that these appointments were contrary to the late Holy Father’s wishes and would be regarded as a kind of repudiation of his papacy: «It will be said that you betrayed Paul.» Indeed!

     Before he went to bed, the Pope received a phone call from his doctor, Antonio da Ros. After fifteen years, in order to put an end to all the lies, this doctor has testified that the Pope was in good health (inset, p. 20).

He died without a sound…

     On Friday 29 September, Sister Vincenza entered the Pope’s bedroom at 4.45 am and found him dead, in his bathroom, according to her breathless words to a group of pilgrims from whom our Father obtained this information the following 6 November. Immediately afterwards, Cardinal Villot forced Sister Vincenza to take a vow that she would remain silent! and she would subsequently tell Yallop that she had found the Pope in his bed, in accordance with the official version.

     At 5 am, Cardinal Villot confirmed the death and began to take full control of matters in a way that was illegal, exclusive and methodical. Illegal, because all his powers had expired on the Pope’s death. He was therefore acting as a usurper, setting about things, as our Father observed, with a cool head, a premeditated plan and a firm determination to do whatever was necessary despite the thousand and one difficulties.

     He pocketed the bottle of Effortil on the bedside table, he took the notes of the transfers and appointments decided on the previous day from the Pope’s clenched hands, and he also removed the Pope’s glasses and slippers, probably because there were traces of vomiting on them. He is also thought to have made the Pope’s Will disappear.

     Quite incredibly, at the same hour, at exactly 5 am, a Vatican car was waiting outside the door of the embalmers. To collect them to do what? We do not know. Perhaps to attempt to remodel the dead man’s face and to apply makeup to it?

     At 6 am, Doctor Buzzonati, who was not the head doctor, confirmed the death, but he failed to draw up a death certificate. He attributed the death to acute myocardial infarction, which he timed as having taken place at around 11 pm the previous evening. Clearly such a declaration, made to order, had no medical value.

     Villot began to inform the cardinals from about 6.30, two hours therefore after the telephone call to the Institute of Medicine ordering them to send the Signoracci brothers, the embalmers! These men therefore took precedence over the sacraments, the cardinals and the head doctor. But this is only a detail. The important thing for the cardinal was to ensure that any medical autopsy would be rendered impracticable, so I pass over the details (cf. Yallop, p. 102).

     The fact is that the embalmers were at the door before the Pope had barely had time to die. «Poor Holy Father!»… as Jacinta said in a true spirit of prophecy.

     However, not everything ran according to Villot's schedule. The Pope’s faithful secretary, Don Lorenzi, telephoned Doctor da Ros, who shared his concern and decided to leave for Rome immediately in order to examine the body. Luciani’s health had been good. He had been well at the time, and a sudden death seemed impossible to Doctor da Ros.

     Furthermore, Sergeant Roggan, who was on duty that night, had suddenly came face to face with Paul Marcinkus on the premises at a quarter to seven in the morning at a time and a place where he had no reason to be.

     The “Gorilla” did not even blink when the Swiss Guard, thinking he was giving him news, told him of the Pope’s death.

     The world was informed at half past seven in a press release so full of lies that it subsequently had to be replaced by another.

And they buried him.

     While the faithful flocked in tears to the chapel of rest in the Clementina Hall where the body had been taken, as was the custom, there was much activity on the third floor of the papal palace: the sisters were busy washing and polishing, on the orders of the self-styled interim head of the Church, in order to remove any evidence, every single trace: footsteps, fingerprints, vomit. The secretaries packed up and carried away the poor Pope’s old clothes, «including his letters, his notes, his books and the small handful of personal mementos.» In order that there should not remain the slightest relic of the first martyr Pope of modern times.

     By 6 pm the entire nineteen rooms of the papal apartments had been totally cleared of any object associated, however remotely, with the papacy of John Paul I. It was then, and then only, that the doors were sealed by the indefatigable and meticulous cardinal usurper. Supreme imposture: sealing the apartments after having removed every compromising object! In just such a manner did the Tucson carbonari act nineteen years later, in 1988, when they re-sealed the tubes after having fraudulently substituted the samples of the Holy Shroud (English CRC n^o 295, April 1997, p. 25-27).

     Villot then went to direct the work of the embalmers, to ensure that they did not remove one drop of blood or the smallest organ that could be used for analysis. 

     Sixteen hours after his strange death, John Paul I was no more than a memory in the very place where, the day before, he was still reigning as the holy and beloved Common Father. It was as if he had never been there, as if he had never existed.

     In this too he resembles Saint Pius X. We have seen how John Paul I was riddled with «darts and arrows» by his entourage, just as Saint Pius X was confronted with the mendacious language, as our Father wrote, «of the pseudo-Catholic liberals, of the so-called Christian democrats and of the ostensibly believing modernists. Pius X, a man alone, even though a group of faithful disciples and holy souls accompanied him to the end, clashed with these three enemy groups, men of ambition, dreamers and apostates.» (French CRC n^o 96, September 1975, p. 14) Let us add, in John Paul I’s case, sharks from the world of finance.

     And our Father concluded: «Having murdered him, his enemies were careful to bury him under two or three heavy Rocks.» An allusion to Pius XI, John XXIII and Paul VI! But for John Paul I only one such Rock was needed: John Paul II, whose twenty-two year reign has obliterated from the memory of men the thirty-three days of John Paul I’s papacy. Note that I say: from the memory of men. Because there is at least one Person who has not forgotten him: the Blessed Virgin!

     For this reason, we can renew the act of hope on which our Father ended his study on Saint Pius X: «But we, who have inherited his teachings, who wish to imitate his virtues and make his wisdom our own, we know that his resurrection is very close.»

     In 1984, our Father reviewed David Yallop’s book in the July and August editions of the French CRC (English edition 172, October 1984). The book was an attempt to awaken public opinion, but above all to awaken the Church and, as the principal party concerned, the conscience of Pope John Paul II, the murdered Pope’s immediate successor. But our Father was under no illusions:

     «There is every reason to fear that nothing will change in this matter of moral corruption at the summit of the Church, any more than in that much more important matter to which we have dedicated ourselves for exactly twenty years [this was written in July 1984], since 6 August 1964, that of the heresy and schism which we have been denouncing, with a complete lack of success as you know, in the head and members of the postconciliar Church… There is every reason to fear that the conspiracy of silence, a murderous silence, the Sicilian omerta, will make everyone – the entire Church, the masters of public opinion and the world conscience – share in the crime of a few, the most enormous crime possible after that of Good Friday: the murder on Friday 29 September 1978 of the smiling Pope, “our sweet Christ on earth”, Albino Luciani, the white light, who was “God’s candidate” on the day of his election and who was martyred by his brethren on the thirty-third day of his pontifical office.» (Murder at the Vatican, English CRC n^o 172, October 1984)

     And in fact nothing did change: Justice did not lift a finger, neither Italian Justice nor Vatican Justice. As for our appeal against the heresy, schism, scandal and injustice which have been ravaging the Church since 1964, it has not yet received the slightest response.

     But the revelation of the Third Secret has awakened the dead. Since 26 June 2000, everything is changed.