In the Third Secret:

The Dramatic Predictions About the Pope

by Frre Michel de la Sainte Trinit
Frre Michel was born in 1948 and is considered among the most promising of
the new Fatima experts. He holds a Master's degree in letters from the
Sorbonne and a licentiate in philosophy from the Institut Catholique of Paris. He
entered the community of Little Brothers of the Sacred Heart in 1970.
He is the author of the 4-Volume work The Whole Truth About Fatima which is
indisputably the most thorough and scientific investigation into Fatima ever
published. We have recently published Volume I in English. The following extract
is taken from the soon to be published Volume III of this same work.
Is the Pope mentioned in the unpublished part of the Secret? Once again, the
most enlightening rule is the conformity of the Third Secret to the context of the
message. This rule allows us to conclude, with assurance, in the affirmative:
Yes, the Holy Father is certainly mentioned in the final Secret of Our Lady, and
we can even guess in what sense.

I. The Role of the Pope in the Secret Which Has Been Revealed
The great Secret of Fatima is nothing other than the concise and clear
expression of the great design of divine mercy for our century, given by the
Blessed Virgin Herself. We must reread the text attentively to discover, (perhaps
to our astonishment), to what extent the role of the Sovereign Pontiff is
absolutely decisive for the success of this great providential design.
In the twenty-three lines of Sister Lucia's manuscript, the Holy Father is
mentioned five times. Moreover the very structure of the Secret, where the
promises and announcement of chastisements are repeated twice in a row,
clearly underlines the supreme responsibility of the Holy Father, on whom
everything depends in the final analysis.
Indeed the requests of Our Lady addressed to the Holy Father are at the center
of the text, like a key phrase:

First Announcement of the Promises

"If My requests are heeded, many souls will be saved and there will be peace."
First Announcement of the Chastisements
"The war will end, but if men do not stop offending God, another worse one will
begin in the reign of Pius XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown
light, know that it 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 .the Holy Father"
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The Requests of Our Lady, Conditions for Salvation

"To prevent this (all the chastisements just described, as well as those that
follow), I will come to ask (the Holy Father) for the Consecration of
Russia to My Immaculate Heart, and the communion of reparation on
the first Saturdays of the month."
Second Announcement of the Promises
"If My requests are heeded, Russia will be converted and there will be peace."
Second Announcement of the Chastisements
"If not, it will spread its errors throughout the world, provoking wars and
persecutions against the Church. The good will be martyred. The Holy Father
will have much to suffer. Various nations will be annihilated."
The Pope, the First One to Whom Our Lady's Requests are Addressed
The two requests of Our Lady of Fatima to the Supreme Pontiff, which are
sandwiched in between the twofold presentation of the promises and
chastisements, clearly stand out as the primordial condition of salvation. This is
the heart of the drama, and the key to the prophecy.
In the apparition of Tuy, the words of Our Lady are even more explicit in this
sense:
"The moment has come when God asks the Holy Father to make, in union
with all the bishops of the world, the consecration of Russia to My
Immaculate Heart. God promises to save Russia by this means."
In May of 1930, Sister Lucia wrote to her confessor, Father Gonalves, the most
precise request which the Blessed Virgin Mary charged her to pass on to the
Pope:
"The good Lord promises to put an end to the persecution in Russia if the
Holy Father deigns to make, and orders the bishops of the whole Catholic
world to make with him, a solemn and public act of reparation and
consecration of Russia to the Most Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, if His
Holiness also promises, once this persecution ends, to approve and
recommend the practice of the devotion of reparation indicated above.
"The good Lord insists that I request the Holy Father to approve the
devotion of reparation which God Himself and the Blessed Virgin deigned
to request in 1925."
This shows to what extent the Message of Fatima is eminently ecclesial, not just
in the sense that it concerns the whole Church, but especially because the
incomparable promises attached to the fulfillment of the heavenly requests are
attached first of all to the head of the Church, the Pope himself.
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It is similar to Paray-le-Monial, where the requests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

were addressed not to the people, but to King Louis XIV.
To be sure, in our twentieth century God has completely entrusted the salvation
of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. But the Blessed Virgin like the
Holy Spirit, whose visible Figure and living Tabernacle She is cannot act, and
does not wish to act in the Church independently of the ministers instituted by
Jesus Christ to teach, govern and sanctify the Faithful in His name.
The fulfillment of the promises of Fatima unheard of, incomparable promises
depends entirely on the will of the Pope, who by his apostolic authority must
accept and promote the admirable design of mercy proposed by Heaven, but
which cannot be fulfilled without his cooperation.
It cannot be denied that in the Message of Fatima, the responsibility confided to
the Holy Father is immense, dizzying: either wonderfully to the good, or terrible
and disastrous. For it can be exercised for the better or for the worse: "I will
give you the keys to the kingdom of Heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will be
bound in Heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in Heaven."
(Mt. 16:19)
The Pope need only open the gates to the torrent of graces and blessings
overflowing from the Sacred Heart of Jesus onto all souls, on Christendom and
all the Church through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, according to the design
of infinite mercy from the Father of all good things. Jesus is the well. The
Immaculate Heart of Mary is the canal. But it belongs to the Church, and in the
first place the successor of Peter, to open the gates.
That a crushing responsibility! But it clearly does not suppress in any way our
own responsibility the responsibility of each of the Faithful, who once they
have learned the requests of Heaven must strive to put them in practice in their
own life.
Yet, Christ willed that His Church be hierarchical, and even the sum total of all
the individual wishes of the members of Holy Church cannot replace this act of
obedience of the Head. For it is this meritorious act, an act of burning faith and
filial confidence, this act of courage by the supreme authority, ordering all the
bishops also to conform to the commands of Heaven it is this act of the
Sovereign Pontiff that God requests and waits for, and He will not change His
plan ...

The Conclusion of the Secret: From the Pope Alone Deliverance Will
Come

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Father Gruner and Frre Michel, author of The Whole Truth About
Fatima, discussing the urgency of heeding the Message of Fatima at the
International Fatima Rosary Crusade Fatima Symposium held in Vatican City.
"In the end My Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father
will consecrate Russia to Me, which will be converted and a
certain period of peace will be granted to the world."
Just as He is faithful, God is inflexible in His commands. He does not change His
designs to cater to the capriciousness of men. No, He will not change His plan.
He absolutely wills the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary,
as a preliminary condition for its miraculous conversion. Sister Lucia was
astonished to hear this from Our Lord:
I asked Him why He would not convert Russia without the Holy Father
making this consecration: Our Lord answered, "Because I want My whole
Church to recognize this consecration as a triumph of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary, so as to extend its cult and place devotion to this
Immaculate Heart alongside the devotion to My Divine Heart."
Even before the conversion of Russia and peace of Christendom, it is this
consecration of Russia by the Pope and all the bishops of the Catholic world
which will constitute the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Just as He Willed that the Sacred Heart of His Son triumph in the heart of King
Louis XIV, that It be honored publicly in his palace, and through him in all the
courts of Europe as well in the same way God Wills today that the
Immaculate Heart of His Most Holy Mother be venerated by the pastors of His
Church, as the Pope orders all the bishops to accomplish with him all the acts of
devotion requested by Heaven.

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Let them consecrate Russia to Her Immaculate Heart, in an act of public and
solemn faith in Her universal mediation, proclaiming before the whole world
their complete confidence in Her all-powerful intercession.
Since this command was given, it can be said without exaggerating: the
salvation of the world is in the hands of the Vicar of Christ, and completely
depends on his exact and prompt obedience to the commands of the Queen of
Heaven.
The salvation of many souls or their loss; war or peace; the worldwide
expansion of atheistic communism or the conversion of Russia; the exaltation of
the Church or an apostasy devouring and consuming the living cells of its body
everything depends first of all on him, and in the final analysis on him alone.
Continued in Next Issue,
Topics to be included are:
I. The Third Secret Announces the Defection of the Pastors; Parallel
Chastisements; In Portugal ... and at Rome?; The Thesis of Father Alonso:
"Grave Shortcomings of the Upper Hierarchy;" II. Now Everything Can Be
Explained; Three Months of Insurmountable Agony; Some Revealing
Admissions; Why the Secret was not Disclosed.

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