An Ignored Message - Fr. Victor Mroz OFM
"... America's problems are not basically political but moral. The root causes of our misery have not been removed. As a nation, we continue to turn our backs on God and His Commandments. We pay God lip service through pious words, then continue our wicked deeds: such as the continued wholesale slaughter of the innocents through millions of abortion murders of the helpless unborn in their mother's wombs. And all other crimes are growing rapidly, as statistics show. God will 'not be mocked forever.Unless this nation turns to repentance and comes back to God and His laws through prayer, penance and Christian principles of living, we will eventually face a day of frightful reckoning. When I see the people reading the daily papers and magazines I am sorry for them. They seek to understand the present situation through the Marxist, leftist, naturalistic or humanist opinions and propaganda of the secular press. Even if they read so-called Catholic or diocesan papers they still are not told the total truth. In many cases, I think, the editors of the present post-Vatican era in the Conciliar Church are just blind people, trying to lead the blind sheep.
They will never admit it but they are infected with so many diseases such as Modernism, naturalism, false ecumenism and other "isms". One World Government, the Welfare State, even plain Socialism and Communism seem all right to them. How many "Catholic" writers and Popes sing hymns of praise to the United Nations although we know that that international body is but a conspiratorial tool of communism to subject the world to satanic slavery?
Our Blessed Virgin Mary in her message to the three children at Fatima in 1917 said: "If the world does not amend its evil ways, there will be a great chastisement ... "The Blessed Virgin went so far as to name the instrument of God's punishment for mankind: Russia! This she said in 1917, before the Communist revolution in Russia had even surfaced! Who could know that a bunch of Bolsheviks would multiply into a worldwide Beast of the Apocalypse? But she said this: "Its errors will spread throughout the world and nations will be annihilated ... "
Wars are punishments for sins, said the Blessed Virgin, but the Church leaders did not make efforts to spread the Fatima Message. They were not bothered with it .They still appear indifferent now. Although catastrophe is closer every day, the leaders of the Conciliar Church remain silent at best, or actively participate in this evil work. I am quite sure they won't heed these warnings of Our Lady and tell the people the truth...
It was on May 13, 1917 that the Blessed Mother for the first time appeared to three children in a field called Cova da lria near Fatima, north of Lisbon, Portugal. It happened that, during that apparition and the five subsequent ones each month on the same date until October 13, the Blessed Virgin urged frequent recitation of the Rosary, asked for penance and mortification for the conversion of sinners, called for devotion to her Immaculate Heart, asked that Russia be dedicated to her Immaculate Heart by the Pope with the world Bishops, and that the faithful make a Communion of reparation on the first Saturday of five consecutive months. The apparitions of Fatima were declared authentic 13 years later, in 1930, after seven years of canonical investigation by Pope Pius XI, who also authorized the devotion to Our Lady of Fatima under the title of Our Lady of the Rosary.
In October 1942, the middle of World II, Pope Pius XII dedicated the world - and what a world it was already then becoming! - to Immaculate Heart of Mary, but very few Bishops joined him and Russia was not clearly mentioned. Only ten years later, in 1952, in the first apostolic letter ever addressed directly to the peoples of Russia, the same Pope dedicated in a special manner to the Mother God… The first part [of the Fatima message] dealt with a vision of hell, the second promised the conversion of Russia if people would amend their lives; and the third part was the one that is known as “The Secret of Fatima” which the Blessed Virgin ordered not to be opened until 1960. Pope John XXIII, who was the Pope in 1960, read the Message, but decided not to publish it. When I was in Rome, in May 1976, I asked my good friend and classmate Father Flavian Slonimski, who was a Prefect of the Apostolic Penitentiary for many years and still is an apostolic confessor at St. Peter’s Basilica, why the Pope was keeping the Third Secret to himself. He told me bluntly: "Because there are in it too many horrible things"…"
(The Athanasian, July 1980)