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ARE THE LAST FOUR POPES A BUNCH OF LIARS ?
On Fatima & the Private Interpretation of Private Revelations
November 2011By Howard P. Kainz
Howard P. Kainz is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Marquette University and a former executive council-member of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. A widely published author, his most recent book is The Existence of God and the Faith-Instinct (Susquehanna University Press, 2010).
Catholics often criticize Protestants for their subjective “private interpretations” of the Scriptures that give short shrift to tradition. Some Catholics, however, are guilty of the very same thing when it comes to private revelations — messages reportedly given by Jesus or Mary to some individual or group of individuals. The 1917 revelations given by the Blessed Virgin Mary to three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal, during World War I, at the outset of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, constituted possibly the most portentous wake-up call the Church has ever received. But the interpretation of the three “secrets” our Lady entrusted to the children have been subjected to the vagaries of private interpretation by Catholics who give short shrift to the Magisterium of the Church.
The most egregious example of this phenomenon § Weiterlesen…
The author of an exhaustive study on the Virgin Mary’s 1917 appearances in Portugal says her words are being fulfilled by the rise of aggressive secularism and loss of religious freedom in the West.
On the occasion of the worldwide campaign of Adoration to the Eucharistic Jesus for the children and the youth, organized by our World Apostolate of Fatima, on October 7, Feast of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary and anniversary date of the erection of our Apostolate as a international public association of the faithful of Pontifical Right, I am sending you the text for the Children’s Holy hour, written for our Apostolate. Please try to gather children and youth for this practice, starting on the date mentioned before and continuing this devotion as many times as possible. Please, have a look at the contents of this document and use it wherever possible: in parishes, schools, universities, chapels, hospitals, communities, etc. Thank you very much and may Our Lady in Heaven get abundant fruits for Her beloved Son Jesus Christ.
In Christ and Mary Queen,
Prof. Américo Pablo López Ortiz
International President of the World Apostolate of Fatima
