"Si illuderebbe chi pensasse che la missione profetica di Fatima sia conclusa."


Pope Benedict XVI's sensational remarks last month on Fatima's role today:

"One would be deceived who thinks that the prophetic mission of Fatima is concluded."


As for the novelty that we can discover today in this message ...


Original source for these randomly compressed snippets:

The magazine Inside The Vatican, June - July 2010. The article is by Angela Ambrogetti and is called "That Vision is an Image of the Church."


"During the Pope's flight to Portugal on May 11, papal spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi read His Holiness three questions from the press pool.

"These questions are submitted several days in advance, so it would appear that the Pope had time to consider his remarks, and even to choose the questions he would answer.

"Here's is one of the questions:

"Lombardi: Holiness, what significance do the apparitions of Fatima have for us today? ....Is it possible, according to you, to frame also in that vision the sufferings of the Church of today fr the sins of the sexual abuse of minors?

"Here is Pope Benedict's answer:

"Beyond this great vision of the suffering of the Pope, which we can in substance refer to John Paul II, are indicated future realities of the Church which are little by little developing and revealing themselves. Thus it is true that beyond the moment indicated in the vision, one speaks, one sees, the necessity of a passion of the Church that naturally is reflected in the person of the Pope; but the Pope is in the Church, and therefore the sufferings of the Church are announced...

"As for the novelty that we can discover today in this message, it is that attacks on the Pope and the Church do not come only from outside, but the sufferings of the Church come precisely from within the Church, from sins that exist in the Church.

"This has always been known, but today we see it in a really terrifying way: that the greatest persecution of the Church does not come from enemies outside, but arises from sin in the Church."

Here, it seems Ms. Ambrogetti adds:

"Later, in his homily at the mass to commemorate the anniversary of the first Fatima apparition on May 13, the Pope declared..."

And, now the Pope's declaration:

"One would be deceived who thinks that the prophetic mission of Fatima is concluded -- Si illuderebbe chi pensasse che la missione profetica di Fatima sia conclusa."

At this point it appears that the ITV editor Robert Moynihan takes over from Angela Ambrogetti...