This interpretation of the third secret of Fatima is diametrically opposed to that presented by Vatican officials. Sister Maria Lucia dos Santos, the only living visionary of the apparitions of Our Lady at Fatima, suggested that the content of this vision / prophesy be released in 1960 during the pontificate of Pope John XXIII [John XXIII, Oct. 28, Nov. 4, 1958 -- June 3, 1963]. Popes John XXIII, Paul VI, and Pope John Paul I perhaps fearing that it would apply to them if published refused its release. Pope John Paul II waited almost 22 years before releasing it while perhaps waiting for a favorable time or an interpretation of it that would put him in good light.

        Being ambitious to declare as many saints as possible during his pontificate, Karol Wojtyla desired to beatify the two younger visionaries of Fatima, Portugal, Francisco and Jacinta. Along with their beatification it became expedient to publish the third part of the secret of Fatima. This third secret had been put into written form by the oldest of the three visionaries who is now living in the Carmel of Saint Teresa in Coimbra, Portugal.

        With the beginning of the new century Pope John Paul II believes that all of the predicted events have occurred. What was seen as necessary was to find an explanation of the prophesy that would present the third secret in a favorable light regarding himself. This has now been done primarily through the auspices of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

        The conclusion of the secret of Fatima has been revealed forty years late and has been misinterpreted by legal Church officials. It should be noted that Sister Lucia herself stated that even though she received the vision, she had not received its interpretation, therefore, any reference to her acceptance of an interpretation is misleading. (See theological commentary of Cardinal Ratzinger.)

        Following is the official translation of the words written by Sister Maria Lucia dos Santos:

J.M.J.

        The Third Part of the Secret revealed at the Cova da Iria-Fatima, on July 13, 1917.

        I write in obedience to you, my God, who command me to do so through his Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and through your Most Holy Mother and mine.

        After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendor that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: ‘Penance, Penance, Penance!'. And we saw in an immense light that is God: ‘something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it' a Bishop dressed in White ‘we had the impression that it was the Holy Father'. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions. Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God.
                                                                                        Tuy-3-1-1944.

        Both Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI had ample opportunity to publish the third part of the secret of Fatima as instructed by sister Lucia. Had they done so the world would have been properly warned of the still coming events and been able to concentrate on dynamically resolving the problems in the hierarchy of the Church. They preferred instead to hold a full Church council that only served to worsen relationships with God within the Church. Had the secret been published and Vatican II not been held, perhaps the threatened destruction and doom would have been averted. As it is, despite the presentations of Pope John Paul and Cardinal Ratzinger, it is believed that these events have yet to occur.

        Karol Wojtyla, known as Pope John Paul II, also had the opportunity to avert the coming events. However, he delayed the publication of the third secret and caved into humanism. Instead of using his knowledge and talents to correct problems in the hierarchy, he freely chose to be popular with the world rather than with Christ. As a consequence it is probable that the predicted events will soon occur. The prophesy seems to indicate that they will take place during his lifetime.

        The martyrs –truly the victims– referred to are the billions of innocent victims of abortion¹, crime, and injustice. The number of souls lost forever to God's kingdom is largely due to Wojtyla's misapplication of God's Word. The souls lost due to the indifference of a high percentage of bishops, priests, and religious are uncountable. It is for this reason that those who have designated themselves as lovers of Christ will be the first among perhaps hundreds of thousands, even multi-millions, of others who will be put to death². This will occur when the tragedies taking place in the world become so great that people seek out those who are determined as being responsible for the great suffering, destruction, and death that has been foretold.

        Contrary to the stated position of Pope John Paul, his shooting had nothing to do with the third part of the vision. God allowed him to be shot to call his attention to the errors he was trying to present in an encyclical he had considered ready for publication (On Human Work – Laborem Exercens). During his recovery he revised the encyclical and subsequently issued the corrected version. This fact is affirmed, at least indirectly, in the closing paragraph of the encyclical.

        "I prepared this document for publication on last May 15, on the 90th anniversary of the encyclical "Rerum Novarum," but it is only after my stay in the hospital that I've been able to revise it definitively.         Given at Castelgandolfo, on the 14th day of September, the feast of the triumph of the cross, in the year 1981, the third of the pontificate."

        The reason priests are called father (their obligations relate to those of fatherhood – instruction, leadership, discipline, and provisioning for the present and future) is that they are to be focused on fatherly spiritual leadership. They are to teach and set good examples. They are to spiritually discipline those in their jurisdiction. They are to provision their congregants for activities in this life and for eternal life through the graces available in the seven sacraments.

        Pope John Paul is the current high father of the Church specially dedicated, as was Saint Peter himself, to be responsible for the availability of the sound spiritual values of fatherhood. When a pope uses his authority according to the will of God and disciplines as a true father should, the intervention by God –that has occurred by various methods at the hand of God, as presented in Old Testament Biblical history– could be, and, in the future, should be averted.

        It seems highly improbable at this late date that the tragedies scheduled to take place can any longer be averted. The main hope at this point is that before the doom and destruction is too far progressed, corrective action will be taken. Such action seems to mean that perhaps high numbers of religious of all ranks and levels will be put to death followed perhaps by great multitudes of public officials and others –false religious leaders, professionals in finance, law, media, medicine and research, and participants in promoting godlessness and injustice– responsible for the many tragic events that have been and are currently continuing to take place.

        The greatest consequence of humanism is in relationship to spiritual values which have been lost through rejection of the full word of the one universal God whose values are engraved in the sacred writings. Human nature has not varied since the time of Adam and Eve. It will be the same until the end of time. No amount of education, of social or scientific advancement will ever change basic human nature. God understands this perfectly and instructed humanity for all generations. For those who accept the wisdom, power, omnipresence, omniscience, and the unlimited authority of God, with love, the acceptance of the total value of all of Scripture –including all admonitions, instructions and penalties, from beginning to end, and not specifically changed by the coming of Jesus and the teachings of the New Testament– is not questioned.

        It is by reason of the known rejection of the Word of God that it can be stated that much of the hierarchy of the Church, all the way down through priests and religious, are effectively in heresy and therefore under ban, that is, under sentence of automatic excommunication. While this does not immediately affect the legal authority of bishops and priests, it does mean that a high percentage of them are rejected as valid moral leaders.

        Many in religious life are not setting the positive examples of trust, faith, and love of God that they should be by virtue of their vocations. National and local leaders, whether in government, professional positions, or in the media, are responsible for their actions under the prohibitions of natural law.³ No one is excused from their offenses by virtue or reason of bad witness given by religious persons.

        Apart from direct actions against love of God and of moral law –as found in the commandments, throughout Sacred Scripture, and in the teachings of the one true Church– the great sins of mankind stems from and have been promoted through humanism that has led to socialism and feminism. These positions are directly responsible for the high degree of evil that has become publicly acceptable throughout society. It should be understood that faith in and love of God is always necessary to be able to understand and accept the Word of God.

¹   One who denies the full and direct defense of the unborn denies the fullness of life of the unborn and their value to God. A permanent eternal spirit exists from the instant of their conception.

²   Should or when the threatened destruction and doom takes place, just executions must begin, then continue until God is satisfied. The human race must learn to accept responsibility for both religious and civil leaders in the future. The executions are to continue at the hands of local people until justice has authentically returned to the world. If the people of a local area do not adhere to this admonition, then people from surrounding localities are to step in, takeover, and additionally execute significant numbers of the local indifferent people until the remainder, if any, take the initiative and act righteously.

³   Natural law – the natural sense of right and wrong determinable through acceptance of the Golden Rule, "do unto others as you would have them do unto you."  –  Principles held to be derived from nature and binding upon human society.

Father David C. Trosch
July 6, 2000
Feast of Saint Maria Goretti, Virgin and Martyr
She was attacked at age 12 and preferred to die
in God's love rather than to be raped alive.

Table of Contents                                                   Page

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Third part of Secret of Fatima . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Photo copies of original documents of secret in Portuguese . . . 2
Unveiling of Third Secret – Events of the Future . . . . . . . . 2
Segmental Breakdown and Analysis of third part of secret . . . . 5
First and Second parts of the Secret of Fatima . . . . . . . . . 7
Excerpts from Theological Commentary of Cardinal Ratzinger . . . 8
Informational Biblical References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3rd Secret paralleled in Bible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

1. at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand;
   • left - positioned for doom (Mt. 25:33, 41)
2. [Angel with sword] flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire;
   • for the grave sins of sodomy (Jude 1:6f), murder (Gn. 9:6), heresy, apostasy and schism (Can. 1364), and other grave unpunished crimes an angel of God is prepared to bring destruction and doom upon the world.
3. but they died out in contact with the splendour that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: ‘Penance, Penance, Penance!'.
   • A time of grace (a temporary opportunity for change to do what is right and just symbolized by the right hands) is given by the mother of Jesus and passed on by the angel with the command to implement the three elements of Penance
     1. accept personal responsibility for one's own sins - end denial
     2. with contrition (sorrow for breaking faith with the Lord) confess sins to an ordained priest (Jn. 20:23 – Sacred Scripture must always be interpreted giving precedence to the most authoritatively clear passage.)
     3. restitution (promote good to substitute for evils committed and allowed to be committed) - all sins are offenses against God's love (failure to love God with one's whole heart, mind, body, and soul – one who loves God will properly love oneself and their neighbor). Accordingly, primary restitution must be made to God. This means that we must be active in the service of God for the good of the Kingdom. Anyone not in the service of God does not have full or proper love of God. Love of God must always take precedence/priority over love of man.  Note: Temporal restitution must also be made where feasible.
4. And we saw in an immense light that is God: ‘something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it'
   • a vision from the glory of God of events scheduled to take place –if necessary change of direction does not take place– due to societies overwhelming participation in evil.
5. a Bishop dressed in White... Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain,
   • men and women dedicated to God's service climbing/working for humanistic goals.
6. at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark;
   • at the summit is seen the improperly understood quest – a cross of cork that visibility bobs and floats according to the whims of humanity in the sea of life.
7. before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins
   • during the journey of life momentary human problems and atrocities become the focus of attention.
8. and half trembling with halting step,
   • this may well describe the current medical condition of Karol Wojtyla.
9. afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way;
   • emotions from experiences in life take hold and entanglement with humanistic problems focuses prayers and efforts on matters of this world.
10. having reached the top of the mountain,
    • many in the world obtain their desired lofty positions.
11. on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed
    • he was brought to his knees and terminated for bending and floating the Word of God for his own goals.
12. by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him,
    • a diverse army of people afflicted by his indifference to his responsibilities as disciplinary leader (father) brings about his doom.
13. and in the same way there died [not martyred] one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions.
    • false witnesses to spiritual values were the first to be destroyed by diverse common people in anguish and fear. These were followed by unjust heads of governments, legislators, judges, doctors, lawyers, financiers, media, and unrepentant accomplices.
14. Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand,
    • effects of crimes of the guilty were being made clearly visible by God's messengers.
15. in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs
    • evidence and consequences of humanism is recorded for this and future generations.
16. and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God.
    • knowledge of false goals is given to help the living and their descendants during their journey of life.

Father David C. Trosch
July 3, 2000
Feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle

for all doubting Thomas's

        This will entail my speaking about the secret, and thus answering the first question.

        What is the secret?

        It seems to me that I can reveal it, since I already have permission from Heaven to do so. God's representatives on earth have authorized me to do this several times and in various letters, one of which, I believe, is in your keeping. This letter is from Father José Bernardo Gonçalves, and in it he advises me to write to the Holy Father, suggesting, among other things, that I should reveal the secret. I did say something about it. But in order not to make my letter too long, since I was told to keep it short, I confined myself to the essentials, leaving it to God to provide another more favourable opportunity.

        In my second account I have already described in detail the doubt which tormented me from 13 June until 13 July, and how it disappeared completely during the Apparition on that day.

        Well, the secret is made up of three distinct parts, two of which I am now going to reveal.

(first part)

        The first part is the vision of hell.

        Our Lady showed us a great sea of fire which seemed to be under the earth. Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that issued from within themselves together with great clouds of smoke, now falling back on every side like sparks in a huge fire, without weight or equilibrium, and amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fear. The demons could be distinguished by their terrifying and repulsive likeness to frightful and unknown animals, all black and transparent. This vision lasted but an instant. How can we ever be grateful enough to our kind heavenly Mother, who had already prepared us by promising, in the first Apparition, to take us to heaven. Otherwise, I think we would have died of fear and terror.

(second part)

        We then looked up at Our Lady, who said to us so kindly and so sadly:

        “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 Pius XI [Pius XI, Feb. 6, Feb. 12, 1922 -- Feb. 10, 1939]. 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”.

From the Theological Commentary by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger,
           Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

1. "prophecy in the biblical sense does not mean to predict the future but to explain the will of God for the present, and therefore show the right path to take for the future."

2. "In biblical language, the “heart” indicates the centre of human life, the point where reason, will, temperament and sensitivity converge, where the person finds his unity and his interior orientation. According to Matthew 5:8, the “immaculate heart” is a heart which, with God's grace, has come to perfect interior unity and therefore “sees God”. To be “devoted” to the Immaculate Heart of Mary means therefore to embrace this attitude of heart, which makes the fiat—“your will be done”—the defining centre of one's whole life. It might be objected that we should not place a human being between ourselves and Christ. But then we remember that Paul did not hesitate to say to his communities: “imitate me” (1 Cor 4:16; Phil 3:17; 1 Th 1:6; 2 Th 3:7, 9). In the Apostle they could see concretely what it meant to follow Christ. But from whom might we better learn in every age than from the Mother of the Lord?"

3. "Sister Lucia responded by pointing out that she had received the vision but not its interpretation."

Informational Biblical References

1. "But to the wicked God says:
           "Why do you recite my commandments and profess my covenant with your lips?
           You hate discipline; you cast my words behind you!" " [Psalm 50:16-17]
2. "Your prophets had for you
           false and specious visions;
   They did not lay bare your guilt,
           to avert your fate;
   They beheld for you in vision
           false and misleading portents." [Lamentations 2:14]
3. "Jonah began his journey through the city, and had gone but a single day's walk announcing, "Forty days more and Nineveh shall be destroyed," when the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast and all of them, great and small, put on sackcloth." [Jonah 3:4-5]
4. "Every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down
           and thrown into the fire." [Matthew 7:19]
5. "You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky;
           why then do you not know how to interpret the present time?” [Luke 12:56].
   Publication Date:  July 9, 2000
   14th Sunday in Ordinary Time

"Woe to the shepherds who mislead and scatter the flock of my pasture, says the LORD.  Therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, against the shepherds who shepherd my people: You have scattered my sheep and driven them away. You have not cared for them, but I will take care to punish your evil deeds."  [Jeremiah 23:1-2]

Scripture Passage that parallels 3rd Part of Secret:  (August 18, 2000)

        "Then he cried loud for me to hear: Come, you scourges of the city! With that I saw six men coming from the direction of the upper gate which faces the north, each with a destroying weapon in his hand. In their midst was a man dressed in linen, with a writer's case at his waist. They entered and stood beside the bronze altar. Then he called to the man dressed in linen with the writer's case at his waist, saying to him: Pass through the city (through Jerusalem) and mark an X on the foreheads of those who moan and groan over all the abominations that are practiced within it. To the others I heard him say: Pass through the city after him and strike! Do not look on them with pity nor show any mercy! Old men, youths and maidens, women and children--wipe them out! But do not touch any marked with the X; begin at my sanctuary. So they began with the men (the elders) who were in front of the temple. Defile the temple, he said to them, and fill the courts with the slain; then go out and strike in the city.
        As they began to strike, I was left alone. I fell prone, crying out, Alas, Lord GOD! Will you destroy all that is left of Israel when you pour out your fury on Jerusalem?" He answered me: The sins of the house of Israel are great beyond measure; the land is filled with bloodshed, the city with lawlessness. They think that the LORD has forsaken the land, that he does not see them. I, however, will not look upon them with pity, nor show any mercy. I will bring down their conduct upon their heads." [Ezekiel 9:1-10]