What exactly did Our Lady of Fatima tell the Church through her seers at Fatima, Portugal in 1917, when WWI was raging?

What exactly did Our Lady of Fatima tell the Church through her seers at Fatima, Portugal in 1917, when WWI was raging?

by Larry Welch, M.Div., R.T.(R) (ARRT), retired healthcare professional and a former seminarian with the SMA Fathers (Society of African Missions) from 1968-1975.

Our Lady of Fatima told the Church through her seers at Fatima in 1917, while WWI was raging that:

"a worse one will break out during the reign of Pius XI, the Church will suffer persecutions, and various nations will be annihilated!" 

And as our Heavenly Mother, she obviously did not want that to happen, because she knew millions of her children would "suffer & die" just as they were then in WWI when she was appearing in Fatima.  

So, in the apparition of July 13, 1917, Our Lady told her chosen seers, Lucia dos Santos, who later in life became a sister, and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto  that “to prevent this (WWII), I shall come to ask for the Consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart” and promised that, by this single public act, Russia would be converted and peace would be given to the world. 

The Mother of God also cautioned that if Her request was not fulfilled, “Russia will spread its errors throughout the world, raising up wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, and various nations will be annihilated.”

True to Her word, Our Lady "reappeared" to Sister Lucy on June 13, 1929 at Tuy, Spain, during the reign of Pope Pius XI, when in a great and sublime vision representing the Blessed Trinity, She announced that “the moment has come for God to ask the Holy Father to make, in union with all the bishops of the world, the Consecration of Russia (specifically Russia and Russia alone said Our Lady) to My Immaculate Heart. By this means, He promises to save Russia.”

Needless to say, Pope Pius XI, who was the Pope from 1922 to 1939, like Pope Benedict XV, the Pope from 1914 to 1922, both "disobeyed" the "urgent request" of Our Lady of Fatima for the Consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart, in union with all the bishops of the world, "in order to prevent WWII and other wars" Our Lady said would follow WWII, if Her "request" made in 1917 was not fulfilled!

Indubitably, every pope since Benedict XV has "blood on their hands" God rest their souls!

Perhaps one day the Vatican will give a "formal apology" for the "needless loss" of "countless lives" since 1917, when all the carnage from that time until now - "could easily have been avoided" as Our Lady "never reneges" on Her "promises!"  Trust me, you can always "take Our Lady's promises to the bank" as they say.

If only "one pope" would have "honored" Our Lady of Fatima's "urgent request" the world, together with the Church, would be enjoying Our Lady's foretold Era of Peace!  Instead, what do we have?  Nothing but what Our Lady "WARNED" us about, if the Church was "disobedient" to Her "request" - "wars, loss of souls, chaos in the world & a great 'CRISIS' in the Church," which is precisely what we have!

In Christo Rege et Maria Regina!  Larry Welch
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Nota bene: Regrettably, due to a litany of popes, who "failed" to "honor" Our Lady of Fatima's "urgent request" the world is now on the "cusp" of WWIII, and the Church is not only in an "unparalleled CRISIS" in its 2,000-year history, the degree of Apostasy within the Church & the world is also "unprecedented!" 

It should also be noted that Our Lady of Good Success foretold the grave degree of "moral relativism" and "CRISIS" the world and the Church would enter into towards the end of the 19th century and following, with those maladies significantly worsening in the mid 20th century, the time of Vatican II of course.  Yes, sadly, Vatican II categorically "broke with Church Tradition" and "changed" key Doctrines, in name of "aggiornamento" and "dialogue" with the world and its religions, which included Pagan religions as a "possible" means of knowing God, the "TRUE" God of the Catholic Church that is!  Are you kidding me!   That "warped" interpretation of Ecumenism as defined by Vatican II led to the profession of "False ecumenism" worldwide following Vatican II, which sad to say Pope John Paul II was "notorious" for!  God rest his soul.  John Paul was a kind and saintly man for sure, but unfortunately, he was "intoxicated" with the "man-centered" theology of Vatican II in regard to Ecumenism.  Ergo, throughout his papacy he "practiced & promoted" the "False ecumenism" of Vatican II.  For example, in his 1979 speech
at the UN John Paul II "praised" the UN's objective: "to promote respect for human rights ... without distinction of race, sex, language or religion."  Most definitely an "inter-confessional approach," that was condemned by the previous Magisterium.

Then he "affirmed" that "Popes John XXIII and Paul VI had confidence in this important institution as an eloquent and promising sign of our times.  And the one who speaks to you now, since the first months of his pontificate, has often expressed the same confidence and conviction nurtured by my predecessors."

In 1995 John Paul returned to the UN headquarters in New York to lend it his prestige. Indeed, he stated: "My words, which I desire to be a sign of the esteem and regard of the Apostolic See for this institution, join willingly with the voices of all who see in the UN the hope for a better future for the society of men."

I can assure you that neither Saint Peter or Saint Paul would not have even "thought"
about "saying" what Pope John Paul II "passionately said" at the UN.  What John Paul II "said" at the UN on more than one occasion was clearly a reflection of Vatican II's radical "Doctrinal Shift" in regard to Ecumenism.

Vatican II's jettisoning of "theological orthodoxy," in preference of Teilhard de Chardin's man-centered "anthropomorphic/horizontal theology" as I call it, whose beliefs were in vogue in the 60's and 70's, "triggered" a precipitous decline in long practiced "customs & morals" that were God-centered, which then resulted in the adaptation of "moral relativism" within the Church - that was even practiced by priests hearing Confessions. That "diabolically disorientated" scenario of Vatican II virtually "metastasized" in the Church in the wake of Vatican II, which needless to say is the "chief explanation" for the "CRISIS" we currently face in the Church.  A Church that has been "languishing in the cesspool" of Vatican II's grave "Doctrinal Errors" for 61 years since the close of that Council.  "YIKES" to say the least!

No wonder Padre Pio "denounced," Vatican II as did his dear friend Fr. Gabriele Amorth - along with "denouncing" the Novus Ordo (New Order) Missae (Mass) that he knew was "offensive" to Our Lord & Our Lady, for obvious reasons!

Padre Pio was so "disturbed" about the New Order Mass & Vatican II that he informed Pope Paul VI that he should: "For pity sake, end the Council quickly!"
Those were Padre Pio's exact words for Pope Paul.  They were communicated to the pope by the messenger he sent to San Giovanni Rotondo to meet with Padre Pio, Cardinal Antonio Bacci, in order to obtain his view of Vatican II and especially the Novus Ordo Mass.  That Mass by the way was essentially designed by an "active" Freemason, Archbishop Annibale Bugnini, who was discovered to be a high-ranking member of the French and Italian Masonic lodges by 3 prelates at Vatican II.  They were Cardinal Dino Staffa, Cardinal Silvio Oddi and then Archbishop Edouard Gagnon, who served as a Canon Lawyer at Vatican II.  Pope Paul VI knew these highly respected prelates very well and personally had great respect for them, so much so that he commissioned Archbishop Gagnon to conduct an investigation into Vatican Freemasonry, which he did over a three-year period in which he acquired tomes of documents showing Bugnini's membership papers in the French and Italian Masonic lodges.  Archbishop Gagnon also discovered that Bugnini's close friend Cardinal Sebastiano Baggio was a member of the French and Italian Masonic lodges.  Bugnini and Baggio often attended Masonic meetings together.  Enough "Truth Telling" for now.  The bottom line is - the Novus Ordo Mass was patently "not inspired" by the Holy Spirit!  Guess who?

I can provide you with more details about Padre Pio's utter "rejection" of Vatican II and the Novus Ordo Mass as I had the privilege of meeting with a priest who knew Padre Pio very well in 1973.  That was about 5 years after Padre Pio went to his Eternal Reward!  I was also privileged to be able to kiss bloodstained bandages that once covered the feet, hands and side of Padre Pio. 

Have a blessed & holy day!  Oremus et pro invicem!