The Conspiracy Theories of Fatima

If you search "Fatima" on the Internet, you will get a whole lot of links to websites and blogs with conspiracy theories, chiefly centred on the rumour that Pope John Paul and Pope Benedict have lied to us, that "the true Third Secret has never been revealed", that it had all sorts of lurid prophesies and so on.  Because conspiracy theories and doom-mongers attract followers and funds, they are able to run conferences and newsletters and gain a great deal of attention.  The real message of the apparitions of Our Lady at Fatima, which is of prayer and penance, seems tame by comparison. Why pray and confess sins and live in charity and service, when you could be writing up another lurid speculation or hurrying to a  rally to relish it with others?

Now at last we have a new edition of a  book, carrying a Foreword by Cardinal Raymond Burke of the Apostolic Signatura, which sets out the facts about Fatima, with information on the consecration of the world (including Russia!) to Mary's Immaculate heart by Blessed John Paul and all that has flowed from that.