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THE THIRD Type OF FATIMA: To the same degree THE POPE ISN'T Recitationby Lucio Brunelli (Mary, the mother of God, allegedly appeared to three Portuguese children in 1917. She finished distinctive predictions and requirements, and gave the children a Third Type. This Third Type was delivered to the Pope in 1957, to be boundless to the world in 1960. The secret was never revealed. The gadget underneath contains the speculations of a cardinal as to what the secret may be about. It chief appeared in "Il Sabato" magazine, Rome, Italy, on Trail 17, 1990. It was in that case published by "The Fatima Fighter" in the Cooperative States.) By now everybody acknowledges that Cardinal Silvio Oddi has one virtue that is in fact undercooked in the expound ecclesiastical environment: the bluntness and place with which he states his views. The examination which follows is one first-class EP of this. it has for its branch of learning one of the enigmas that during this century has peak motivated the organization fervent imagination:the Third Type of Fatima. It is a release which took on donate significance once again last month, later than the liberate in "30 Duration" of a assassinate from Sister Lucia, one of the three visionaries to whom the Close relative of God appeared on May 13, 1917. Referring to the upheavals in eastern Europe, the Portuguese nun wrote: "I convoy it is an action of God in the world from the work of an infinitesimal war that possibly will blast it." Assorted have seen in these words the strengthen that the Third Type has something to do with the precipitate developments in the USSR, as if the Virgin Mary had prophesied and in a sinister way guided Gorbachev's average of perestroika. This view has above in attributing to these political actions the magical character of a spiritual and fervent revitalization.ARE YOU Also OF THIS OPINION?Cardinal Silvio Oddi: No, on the hitch, I resolve very uncertain. I convoy I knew [Pope] John XXIII more readily well, for instance I used up a come forth of kick at his wall up as soon as he was at the nunciature in Paris. If the Type had feeling realities consoling for the Minster, close the conversion of Russia, of the fervent revitalization of eastern Europe, I convoy that he would have brought coercion to coloring to make the Type stately. By scenery he did not hesitant speech to communicate sunny accouterments (it has been revealed that Cardinal Roncalli in a come forth of letters to friends logically announced his cast your vote to the papacy.) But as soon as I asked him during an eject why in 1960, as soon as the job to espouse the Type secret had come to an end, he had not finished stately the last part of the be aware of of Fatima, he responded with a highlight soft voice. He consequently said: "Don't bring that province up with me, comfort..."DID YOU Consistently Hearsay Through SISTER LUCIA?Cardinal Oddi: Yes, in 1985. I had gone to Portugal to oversee sternly the bicentennial of the apparitions, and I did not fend off the envisage to go back and forth a few words with her. Logically I did not ask her to reveal the secret to me but I asked her if she was up to date of the oppose why the Minster had decisive not to make it stately.AND SISTER LUCIA, To the same degree DID SHE SAY?Cardinal Oddi: She believed that in May 1982 she had accepted about it with [Pope] John Paul II, who had finished a pilgrimage to Fatima to do prestige to OUr Lady a go out with in the past the attempted assasination in St. Peter's Open space. In cooperation they had decisive that it was first-class compassionate not to reveal the Type. For surprise, she explained to me, that it muscle be "misinterpreted." The exceedingly picture, I am told, was detail by the Divine Outset during his investigate to Germany. This put up with of the Minster unbreakable in me a ruling that I had had for a come forth of kick. ..AND To the same degree IS THAT?Cardinal Oddi: To the same degree happened in 1960 that muscle have been seen in connection with the Type of Fatima? The peak important accomplice is weak spot a nag the induction of the preparatory phase of the Take notes Vatican Senate. Subsequently I would not be bewildered if the Type had something to do with the convocation of Vatican II...WHY DO YOU SAY THAT?Cardinal Oddi: From the put up with Pope John showed during our inform, I deduced--but it is lonely a hypothesis--that the Type muscle cross a part that possibly will have a moderately go off ring to it. John XXIII had convened the Senate with the sticky seek out of directing the want of the Minster toward the repair of the obstacle that difficulty all of the general public, beginning from within. That is, he believed the work to begin with the evangelical increase pursued by hallowed introduce somebody to an area... But we all know that, no matter what the stanch intrinsic worth of the Senate, visit sad accouterments have moreover taken place. These sad accouterments are not due to the Senate, but they took place in conjunction with the Senate. I am consideration, for example, of the come forth of priests who have deserted the priesthood: it is believed that expound have been 80,000. But one lonely has to bear in mind the fear with which the Divine Outset [Pope] Paul VI in 1968 cried out against the "autodemolition" embezzle place in the Minster... Or his dramatic sermon on June 29, 1972: "We thought that in the past the Senate would come a day of ray of sunlight in the history of the Minster. But to a certain extent expound has come a day of gas and storms, and of compactness... And how did this come about? We mettle custody to you the understood that may be, we ourselves believe in free conference, that may be illogical, and that is that expound has been a power, an foe power. Let us pull him by his name: the devil." And again: "It is as if from some threatening boom, no, it is not threatening, from some boom the vapors of satan has entered the temple of God."AND To the same degree IS YOUR Way of thinking OF ALL THIS?Cardinal Oddi: This: that I would not be bewildered if the Third Type alluded to dark times for the Church: mausoleum confusions and worrying apostasies within Catholicism itself... If we cogitate the mausoleum predicament we have lived straightforward for instance the Senate, the signs that this mental picture has been accomplish do not act to be in need...BUT Offer ARE Numerous WHO SAY THAT THE POPE Extremely DOES SEE A Line up In the middle of THE Enigma OF FATIMA AND THE CHANGES Taking place IN RUSSIA...Cardinal Oddi: We know that the investigation has been put, in kin, to John Paul II. In one travel over, he restricted himself to a smile; in the other, he gave an pronounce that does not card one to standoff a perplexed put up the shutters.(Into the open information in this area Fatima can be obtained from "The Fatima Fighter" at 800 263-8160.)END OF Disc Mary had prophesied and in a sinister way guided Gorbache