You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace. The war is going to end: but if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the Pontificate of Pope Pius XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign given you by God that he is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father. To prevent this, 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 heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated. In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she shall be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world.
Second Secret of Fatima (emphasis added)
Dave Griffey at Daffey Thoughts brings us the mind droppings of a former Steubenville professor:
From former Steubenville professor Rebecca Weiss:
There is nothing I can add to make it worse than it is. Except perhaps:
So there you go. Fatima could just be a big hoax; a giant, great big Nazi inspired fascist hoax. And those who believe in it might just be fascists. This could be arrived at by pondering the possibilities and then declaring anyone who challenges the possibilities to be fascists. An air tight argument.
My two cents? Notice how one of the tweets retweeted suggests “Mary” (note the scare quotes), being Jewish, should have put a special focus on the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust over and beyond the tens of millions of others not Jewish killed in the other horrors of the last century.
Perhaps it’s me, but I find comfort in God and those immediately acquainted with the Almighty not being obsessed with our obsession with post-human worthiness based on demographic labels. Unlike Fr. James Martin, I can see Jesus not really caring about the skin color of those in churches. And apparently it’s odd t hat I can see the Blessed Mother equally concerned about all of those who would suffer and die in our last century’s nod to the latest ideologies and agendas, rather than being most concerned about those closest in demographic identity to her.
Go here to comment. Always recall that Leftist Catholics are Leftists first and, at best, Catholics fifth. In 1917 the Bolsheviks came to power and Our Lady revealed herself at Fatima. You cannot follow both paths, and Catholics who attempt to do so end in very dark places indeed.
Leftist Catholics are not real Catholics. They are Democrats. They are Tower of Babel people. They believe Man is God. They serve the devil. It is difficult to be friends with them—even when they are your own kids, sad to say. Let us always pray for them.
Leftists always place more faith in some massive government working to suppress people’s freedom than God’s inner workings in persons minds and hearts.
At some point their is no”fifth” and you’re just not Catholic at all. I think that was Mary’s point. Or, do they think actual “Catholics” go to Hell?
The Russia Collusion Hoax
The Charlottesville Hoax – Biden’s lyin’
The Climate Hoax
The Gun Violence Hoax
The George Floyd, Jacob Blake, BLM Hoaxes,
The DACA Hoax
ETC. Ad Infinitum
Quite appropriately, Instapundit posted the following.
Glenn Reynolds, “Quoth Solzhenitsyn: ‘“There are no loopholes for anybody who wants to be honest.’ As he knew, the left hates honesty because it lives by lies, and has to.”
You can take that to the bank.
She’s a tragedy, in the classical sense.
She’s intelligent, but she’s allowed it to make her proud. And that, alloyed to her politics, has made her someone who derps out things like this.
The result is that while smart, she’s not as intelligent as she thinks she is: Portugal was run by left-wing parties during the time of the apparitions. And the first fascist parties would not exist until after the war, with Dr. Salazar not achieving power in Portugal until 1932.
After hubris comes nemesis. If her writings are any indication, her spiritual trajectory is leading her outside of the faith.
Here are highly appropriate Orwell quotes.
From Orwell, “Reflections on Gandhi”
“Gandhi himself says, ‘in the end deceivers deceive only themselves.'”
[…]
“. . .Gandhi’s teachings cannot be squared with the belief that Man is the measure of all things and that our job is to make life worth living on this earth, which is the only earth we have.”
[…]
“But it is not necessary here to argue whether the other-worldly or the humanistic ideal is ‘higher.’ The point is that they are incompatible. One must choose between God and Man, and all ‘radicals’ and ‘progressives,’ from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.”
For years, I’ve been saying (and at times criticize for saying), “You won’t get into Heaven if you vote Democrat.”
This AM Newsmax TV had a video of a priest at length agreeing with me.
Anecdotal. A Sunday around the Feast of the Holy Family, our wonderful young priests said in his homily, “Marriage is between one man and one woman.” At which clear statement of Church Teaching one each outraged elder woman got up and walked out. Father didn’t skip a beat. I would have said, “Psst! Don’t come back until you see me in the Confessional.”
Brilliant insight by Dave Griffey.
God our Father is little concerned about our petty sectarian or demographic origins.