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Fátima, one of Catholicism’s most sacred sites, is set to reverberate with protests from traditional Catholics who are up in arms against what they claim is the desecration of the shrine by the authorities. Writing in the September newsletter of the Society of St. Pius X, Bishop Bernard Fellay, head of the organisation, invites traditional Catholics to join in a solemn act of protest in 2005 against the shrine’s custodians, who they accuse of turning Fátima into a “multifaith paganistic tower of Babel”. The Society of St. Pius X, which is based in Econe, Switzerland, was founded by the late...

Listen HereI thought the interview was pretty interesting. Take it for what it's worth. "Father Andrew Wingate returned to the show to share his latest messages of prophecy and to review some of his past predictions. His visions, he explained, often come to him during Mass. He sees an angelic face that moves closer and then views images of a "hypothetical situation" which "Heaven" confirms to him whether they are actual or not. He foresees four major upcoming acts of terrorism, with two events to occur in the U.S. before the elections. One will take place in the southern U.S....

The Triumph of FatimaForeseen Nearly Five Centuries Before the Apparitions of 1917By Luis DufaurHeaven revealed the splendid victory of Our Lady of Fatima in the 15th century, and just as the Islamic onslaught was crushed in Portuguese lands during the foundation of the village of Fatima, so too will the “errors of Russia” be overcome in our times.On October 16, 1454, in the Monastery of Saint Mary Magdalene of the Dominican nuns of Alba, south of Turin, Italy, Sister Filipina was dying.The whole religious community had gathered around the bed of that holy Dominican and accompanied her with the prayers...

On August 9, 2004 CAN news service reported that "the Jesuit magazine, America, will publish an article in its Aug. 16-23 issue, in which a pro-abortion politician says he will not let Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. Louis ‘coerce’ him into imposing the Church’s teachings on U.S. society." In the article, entitled "My Conscience, My Vote", U.S. Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.) whines that Archbishop Burke "attempted to use his interpretations of theology to coerce me into taking specific positions on matters that I believe are matters of constitutional law." Interpretations of theology? Obey means, obviously, the teaching of the Catholic...

Lourdes (France), August 20: In an unexpected twist of globalisation, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims and other pilgrims regularly worship at famous Roman Catholic shrines to the Virgin Mary such as Lourdes in France and Fatima in Portugal. They drink the holy water, light votive candles and pray fervently to the Madonna for help with life's hardships. Many venerate her like one of their own goddesses, a view that would be a heresy if a Catholic theologian tried to defend it. Rather than turned away, the newcomers are free to join the crowds from Ireland, Italy, Spain, and other traditionally Catholic countries...

*The Indian Express* reports an upsurge in Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists visiting Catholic shrines dedicated to the Blessed Mother. As it says in its report, [which we could not directly link due to technical problems]: "In an unexpected twist of globalization, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims and other pilgrims regularly worship at famous Roman Catholic shrines to the Virgin Mary such as Lourdes in France and Fatima in Portugal. They drink the holy water, light votive candles and pray fervently to the Madonna for help with life's hardships. Many venerate her like one of their own goddesses, a view that would be...

CLARIFICATION FROM THE RECTOR OF THE SHRINE OF FATIMA THE CHURCH OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY WILL NOT BE AN "ECUMENICAL TEMPLE" 1) The readers of "Voz da Fátima" may remember a communiqué from the Rector of the Shrine, published in January of 2004, under the headline "FATIMA SHRINE OF ALL RELIGIONS ?". 2) The movements which came out in opposition to our October Congress, as mentioned in that communiqué, then took advantage of the arrival of a group of Hindus, as reported in "Voz da Fátima" of May 2004, in order to launch a massive new campaign which is...

Clarification from the Rectory of the Fatima SanctuaryReaders of the Voz de Fatima will remember an article by the Rector of the Sanctuary published in January 2004 entitle “Fatima Sanctuary for all religions?” The movements which have sprung up which had sprung up in opposition to our October conference were recorded there are now taking advantage of having seen a group of Hindus at the Sanctuary at the sanctuary, as recorded in the “Voz de Fatima” of May 2004, to launch their massive anti-ecumenical campaign which is coupled with their opposition to inter-religious dialogue.  We have been sent many requests...

How happy we are to tell you from time to time about the joys of our apostolate! Each day that passes we are privileged to witness miracles of grace. Let us remember to thank Almighty God, and let us be full of gratitude for the graces afforded us by the intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. We dare say that the life of the SSPX is indeed a permanent miracle. It expresses the intervention of God in our small history, the intervention of Our Lady, of the holy angels, of this whole world that surrounds us, that wishes us...

What is new in Fatima? Combat, and still more combat. The two forces facing each other at present are, on the one hand, the modernist clergy and on the other, Fatima and its message, with the recent publication of the French translation of “Calls from the Message of Fatima”, written by Sister Lucy. The message that the modernist clergy are trying to get across is that Fatima belongs to the past, that its specific vocation is outdated since Vatican II, and since the assassination attempt when the pope was injured. The rector of the Shrine redoubles his imaginative efforts in...

Little did Pope Benedict XV know that what occurred during his pontificate would reveal itself to be the most important supernatural event of the 20th century. In truth, the Mother of God deigned to come down from her Heavenly Throne to warn mankind about the impending evils, both natural and supernatural, that would start to take place in the 20th century, and-even more importantly-to tell us what remedies are available to avert or at least shorten the grave catastrophes about to come over the world. I dare say that Fatima is the most important apparition in the history of the...

This column has noted a seemingly endless stream of pronouncements by Vatican bureaucrats who insist that oh no we have no intention of making Catholic converts in Russia. That much is old news. But a new pronouncement along these lines is so striking that it deserves a separate column of its own. On May 6, 2004, Interfax news agency reported that the Executive Secretary of the Russian Conference of Catholic Bishops, Igor Kovalevsky, "has admitted that some of the steps taken by Vatican representatives in Russia could be qualified as proselytism (conversion of the Orthodox population to Catholicism)." Horrors! How...

Portugal: Hindu ceremony at Fatima Summary : In October and November of last year, DICI revealed the threat of an inter-religious center being built at Fatima (see DICI n° 83 and n° 85). On May 5, Portuguese television viewers were able to see on the TV channel SIC, around sixty Hindus from Lisbon, led by a high priest, paying homage to the goddess of nature in the Chapel of the Apparitions at Fatima. The SIC journalist gave a description of the Hindus, gathered in their temple in the Portuguese capital, to pray and worship the different statues of Hindu gods....

“All the invocations of the pagans are hateful to God because all their gods are devils.”1 Saint Francis Xavier wrote these words to Saint Ignatius about the pagan religion of Hinduism. Francis Xavier, writing from India at the time, merely restates the truth from the infallible Sacred Scriptures: “The gods of the gentiles are devils”. (Psalm 95:5) Yet on May 5, 2004 — the Feast of Pope Saint Pius V — the Little Chapel of the Apparitions at Fatima was allowed to be used for a pagan Hindu ceremony. This Little Chapel (also called the Capelinha) is built on the...

May 21, 2004 Indifferentism's Rotten Fruit by Thomas A. DroleskeyWell, the folks who are busily making room for Baal and his friends at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima are certainly not backing away from their efforts to turn that shrine into a center for "inter-religious" worship, all protestations to the contrary by the Vatican notwithstanding. A violation of the First Commandment took place in the Chapel of the Apparitions when visiting Hindu "priests" offered "worship" to their false gods. Consider the report in The Portugal News, the newspaper that first broke the story in  October of 2003...

Last October The Portugal News reported on the Interfaith Congress held at Fátima, one of Catholicism’s most sacred sites, where representatives of the world’s leading religions allegedly explored the possibility of opening the shrine to a whole variety of faiths. While the newspaper received many letters and emails congratulating it for reporting on the congress, it was also criticised by some groups who claimed that Fátima would remain exclusively Catholic. Now, however, we can report that the first steps in developing Fátima as a multi-faith centre could have been taken. On May 5th, SIC and SIC Notícias carried a report...

John Paul II recently gave the religious authorities of Fatima a marble fragment of the tomb of St. Peter in Rome to be used in the new Holy Trinity Basilica that has been under construction since February 1994. The rector of the sanctuary is Msgr. Luciano Guerra. The new basilica will seat 9,000 people, making it the largest covered building in Portugal and one of the biggest Catholic churches in the world. It is scheduled to open in 2007, and is projected to cost close to $50 million, to be paid for by the offerings of pilgrims (The Tablet, March...

ROME, MAY 13, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Today is the anniversary of the first of the Blessed Virgin Mary's apparitions at Fatima, in 1917. In recent months, the sanctuary at Fatima was the focus of controversy because of comments by its rector, Monsignor Luciano Gomes Paulo Guerra, that a new Church being built near the shrine would be used for interreligious purposes (see Rome Notes Jan. 1). I spoke to Bishop Serafim de Sousa Ferreira e Silva, of the Leiria-Fatima Diocese, to find out the latest on the situation. Plans for the new church are going ahead, he said. The church will...

MOSCOW. May 6 (Interfax) - Executive Secretary of the Russian Conference of Catholic Bishops Igor Kovalevsky has admitted that some of the steps taken by Vatican representatives in Russia could be qualified as proselytism (conversion of the Orthodox population to Catholicism). "Certain facts cause surprise and may be interpreted as proselytism. However, this has not been done deliberately," Kovalevsky told a briefing following the first session of a joint working group for relations between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches . "The Catholic Church has no plans of pursuing missionary activities in Russia. Russia is not New Guinea or some African...

A few months ago I was asked by Grizzly Adams Productions/PAX Television Network to appear in a documentary with the tentative title "The Mystery of Fatima." For those not familiar with the subject, it is claimed that in 1917, Mary, the mother of Jesus, appeared to three young shepherd children in the rugged hills a few miles west of Fatima, Portugal, giving them secret messages to be revealed at a later date. Growing up Catholic, I was very aware of the apparitions of Fatima, and like most of my Catholic grade-school friends, I had anxieties about what we perceived to...