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By Father Paul Leonard
In Issue No. 20 Father Paul Leonard wrote "The Plot to Silence Our Lady". We
are indebted to him for uncovering this Plot. In the following article, Father Paul
has chosen to name names because after the public admonition he gave to
those responsible for misleading the public, those concerned have chosen to not
publicly correct their very serious published errors regarding Our Lady of
Fatima's Message. Most of our readers who wrote in expressed their
appreciation for Father Paul's article. Some, however, may have been mystified
as to what motivated those who, while claiming to be promoting Our Lady of
Fatima's Message were actually endeavoring to obstruct Our Lady's full Message
from being known and obeyed.
The full message of Our Lady of Fatima is even now still being suppressed by
left-leaning philo-communist churchmen and organizations who remain
unabashedly committed to the politics of the Vatican-Moscow Agreement.(1)
Our Lady's message is unmistakably clear and unequivocal.
"I shall come to ask for the Consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart and
the Communion of reparation on the first Saturdays. If My requests are granted
Russia will be converted and there will be peace. If not, she shall spread her
errors throughout the world, promoting wars and persecution of the Church, the
good will be martyred, the Holy Father will suffer much, various nations will be
annihilated''. Our Lady specified several things when She spoke these words on
July 13, 1917.
1) That She would come again to make the requests;
2) If Her requests are obeyed, Russia will be converted and there will be peace;
3) If Her requests are not fulfilled, then:
a) Russia will spread its errors throughout the world.
b) Russia will cause wars and persecution of the Church, martyrdom of the good
and even suffering for the Pope.
c) Various nations will be annihilated.
In fulfillment of Her promise of July 13, 1917, Our Lady came to Sister Lucia in
the apparition of June 13, 1929 at Tuy and declared "The moment has come in
which God asks the Holy Father in union with all the bishops of the world, to
consecrate Russia to My Immaculate Heart, promising to save it by this means."
Our Lady demanded the consecration of Russia. The thing that was done was
the consecration of the world. Therefore, the consecration that the Blessed
Virgin requested simply was not done. To say it was done, but only in an
incomplete or partial way is not only false, but a deceptive means to make black
appear as white. Thus, Soul magazine and the Blue Army leadership's absurd
claim that the collegial consecration of Russia has been incompletely made is a
deceptive stratagem, cunningly conceived to achieve a hidden but nevertheless
very definite purpose: to put an end to the public campaign for the Collegial
Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
It would be simply too much to expect even the most obtuse mind to simply
swallow a stark absurdity. Therefore, enough confusion has been injected into
the affair in order to deflect the mind's attention from dwelling upon the fact
that an act which does not validly fulfill the stipulated requirements is null and
void, and therefore cannot even be considered a partial or incomplete act of
fulfilling Our Lady of Fatima's command.
There still remains one more stumbling block to be smoothed over and rendered
palatable: the fact that Russia has quite obviously not been converted away
from its militant atheism and Church persecuting Communism in spite of the
fact that the Consecration has supposedly been made. Again, just enough
ambiguity and confusion has been injected into the matter in order to induce
the public to unwittingly swallow an outright falsehood.
Our Lady stated quite unequivocally that the Collegial Consecration would be
the means by which the conversion of Russia would be brought about. In order
to deflect the public's mind away from this, the editors for Soul magazine have
propagated the brazen falsehood that the Consecration of Russia was not "an
actual condition for the conversion of Russia," but that it was only "a sign that
the requests of Our Lady of Fatima have been fulfilled."
gesture of insult and betrayal to all the victims of the atrocities and persecution
who presently suffer at the hands of Russian Communism and its agents. Sister
Lucia writes that "our good Lord promises that the persecution in Russia will
end if the Holy Father will himself make a solemn public act of reparation and
consecration of Russia ... and order all the Catholic bishops of the world to do
the same ..." (Letter of June 12, 1930) The conversion of a few thousand
individuals in Russia is an encouraging development, but we must not allow that
fact to mislead us about the conversion of Russia. That Conversion will only take
place when the Collegial Consecration of Russia that Our Lady requested will
have been performed by the Pope and the bishops.
The Fatima Crusader has again and again pointed out the glaring
inconsistencies, contradictions and absurdities that Soul Magazine has published
with an astounding regularity. The Blue Army leadership seems to be
demonstrating an adamant and remorseless resolve to continue unabated in
this most reprehensible practice. In view of this, a rational being endowed with
the use of common sense cannot but conclude that Soul Magazine and the Blue
Army Leadership's penchant for falsehood and distortion is the direct result of a
deliberately formulated policy.
of its positions deviated from the orthodox." Father Sheedy makes absolutely no
attempt to substantiate such a serious charge (nor has anyone else) but he
merely reproduces the notorious letter of Bishop Stanislaus Brzana of
Ogdensburg which does not anywhere state that The Fatima Crusader deviates
from orthodoxy.
The first thing to be said about this Brzana letter is that it is a masterpiece of
innuendo which appears to deliberately create a false impression in the minds of
the faithful. It says: "Some of the positions accepted in this publication (The
Fatima Crusader) do not represent the teachings of the Catholic Church"and
therefore, he advises "caution" in reading it.
Now what exactly does it mean to state that some of one's positions "do not
represent the teaching of the Catholic Church"? First of all it does not mean that
his positions are false, unorthodox or in any way at variance with the official
Magisterium of the Church. This statement can be applied to all Catholic
newspapers and magazines and even to some of the writings and declarations
of the Popes. When Pope Pius XII announced the dogma of the Assumption, he
mentioned in his speech that people had come to Rome "from every part of the
Catholic world." Now while the dogma of the Assumption represents the official
teaching of the Catholic Church, the Pope's remark about the people coming to
Rome "from every part of the Catholic world" does not represent the teaching of
the Catholic Church. Likewise, when a Bishop or even a Pope issues a statement
as a private doctor, he thereby states his own personal position, and in so
doing, his statements do not represent the teaching of the Catholic Church.