by
Damien
F. Mackey
“The
children of Fatima warned us that Our Lady foretold if the people did not
repent, a greater war than World War I would follow, under the reign of Pope
Pius XI,
after
a strange light in the night sky over Europe”.
Introduction
Moses’s invitations and warnings to the
Israelites - indeed, to all of us - were conditional,
preceded by, respectively, “If …” (Hebrew: אִם), and: “If not …” (Hebrew:אִם-לֹא ).
Thus, for instance, Deuteronomy 28:1-2: “If you fully obey the Lord your God
and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set
you high above all the nations on earth. All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you
obey the Lord your God …”.
The manifold blessings consequent to this
obedience are then listed (vv. 3-14).
“However” (28:15), “if you do not obey the Lord your God
and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today,
all these curses will come on you and overtake you …”.
There then follows a long list of the most
horrifying curses (vv. 16-68).
But a hard-hearted Pharaoh and his minions,
and the ‘iron furnace’ of Egyptian oppression (Deuteronomy 4:20): “But as for
you, the Lord
took you and brought you out of the iron-smelting furnace, out of Egypt, to be
the people of his inheritance, as you now are”, were only pale foreshadowings
of the terrible eschatological reality of a miserific Devil and his demons, and
eternal servitude in the fires of Hell (one of the Fatima visions).
Pius
XI and the ‘Strange Light’
The modern message of Fatima (which is, in
its essence, an ancient biblical one) is structured along Mosaïc lines, “If”
and “If not”. It is very much to the point (July 13, 1917):
‘If my requests are heard, Russia
will be converted and there will be peace. If not, she will spread her errors
throughout the world, fomenting wars and persecution of the Church. The good
will suffer martyrdom; the Holy Father will suffer much; different nations will
be annihilated’.
‘If only you knew the things that make for peace’ (Luke 19:42).
Well, for we who live in the
Fatima Era (which will turn 100 next year: 2017), it has been spelled out for
us. The bottom line is Obedience to the Will of God!
Either that, or, for
instance, the terrible Second World War. By then, according to the following piece, “the Fatima
prophecies cease to be conditional”.
…. The children of Fatima warned us that Our Lady
foretold if the people did not repent, a greater war than World War I would
follow, under the reign of Pope Pius XI, after a strange light in the night sky
over Europe.
On January 25th 1938, during the reign of Pope
Pius XI, a solar storm produced an Aurora Borealis that was seen all over
Europe and North America — as far south as California in the United States.
These lights were seen by Hitler himself and he
took it as a “sign” to begin his war plans.
On February 4th 1938, less than two weeks after
the aurora was seen by the world, Hitler promoted himself to military chief in
Germany.
A month later he marched his army into Austria.
This was one of the early aggressions that started
World War II. At that point the Fatima prophecies cease to be conditional. ….
[End of quote]
Of interest in this
regard, "on January 25, 1938, a remarkable display of aurora borealis was
visible across Europe, the year before World War II began." The book, The
Secrets of Fatima elaborates: "This aurora appeared as far south as
Galicia, Spain, where Sister Lucy was then cloistered, and she, the only
survivor of the three Fatima shepherds, recognized it immediately as the sign.
Visible even to Pius XI in Rome, the unprecedented aurora was accompanied by a
‘crackling' sound, possibly attributable to discharges of atmospheric energy.
Indeed, in many areas of Europe, panic broke out, as the populace concluded
that the world was on fire and that the End had come."
[End of quote]
Pius
XI and Hitler
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“Spiritually”,
the pope said, “we are all Semites”.
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This next
piece has been taken from: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-eisner/popes-last-crusade_b_3071556.html
Pope Pius XI's Last
Crusade
....
When people think of the
Vatican and World War II, they think immediately of Pius XII, the controversial
pontiff between 1939 and 1958. But before him, there was a little-remembered
pope, Pope Pius XI, who was loudly outspoken against the Nazis and was
determined to call the world's attention to their atrocities. "The Pope's
Last Crusade" tells that story, along with that of the pope's partnership
with an American Jesuit, which breaks new ground about war-time conspiracies
within the Vatican.
Pope Pius XI had left the
Vatican in late April 1938, earlier than usual for his summer retreat at Castel
Gandolfo. He intended it to be an obvious snub directed at Adolf Hitler who was
meeting the first week in May with Italian leader Benito Mussolini.
The pope rejected being
present while the "crooked cross of neo-paganism" flew over Rome.
Hitler's anti-Semitic campaign had become the pope's great preoccupation.
Many scholars think that Pius
XI's crusade against Hitler, which took place in the last months of his life,
could have changed course of events, possibly even the severity of later
atrocities against the Jews.
As the Nazis increased their
threats in their march toward war, the pope realized that it might at that
moment be the Jews, but then it would be the Catholics and finally the world.
He could see that the Nazis would stop at nothing less than world domination.
Pius had few allies at the
Vatican, where many even believed that Communism was a greater danger than
Fascism. Therefore, many prelates thought, the enemy of their Communist enemy
must be their friend.
But Pius saw Hitler as an
insane presence in the world and had been searching for a means of applying
pressure and rallying international leaders against Nazism. It would not be
easy. He was 82 years old and increasingly ill. At the same time, powerful
cardinals and bishops around him feared the pope's activism against Hitler. In
particular, the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, counseled
caution in challenging Hitler and Mussolini. Pacelli eventually would … succeed
Pius XI.
The pope, undeterred, reached
out for help beyond the walls of the Vatican, seeking out an American Jesuit
journalist, John LaFarge, who had just come to Italy. LaFarge had just written
a book, "Interracial Justice," which portrayed the lives of American
blacks who lived in the poorest strata of society. While LaFarge defended
African Americans against the myth of racial superiority, the concept applies,
he wrote, "to all races and conditions of men ... all tribes and races,
Jew and Gentile alike..." (Twenty-five years later, in 1963, LaFarge stood
with his friend Martin Luther King at the March on Washington.)
The pope summoned LaFarge to
Castel Gandolfo on June 25, 1938. The American priest was shocked that the pope
even knew his name. Pius told LaFarge he was to write an encyclical that would
use the same reasoning he employed when discussing racism in the United States.
It was to be the strongest statement ever made by the Vatican, in defense of
the Jews and rejecting the Nazi doctrine of anti-Semitism.
Sworn to silence, LaFarge took
up the papal assignment clandestinely in Paris. The pope's directive, however,
had thrown LaFarge into the hazy realm of Vatican politics. The leader of the
Jesuit order worldwide, Wlodimir Ledochowski, promised the pope and LaFarge
that he would facilitate production of the encyclical. Privately, Ledochowski,
an anti-Semite, conspired to block LaFarge at every turn.
In late September 1938, after
about three months of work, LaFarge traveled to Rome with his papal mission
complete. His superior, Ledochowski, welcomed him and promised to deliver the
encyclical right away to the pope. He dismissed LaFarge and directed him to
return home to the United States. Ledochowski did take care of the speech -- by
burying it for months in Vatican bureaucracy.
The pontiff, unaware of these
machinations, was stepping up his criticism of … Hitler, and Mussolini. He
criticized Mussolini's imitation of systematic attacks on Jews in Germany and
Austria. As in Germany, Jews in Italy were banned from attending school, from
holding public positions or serving as doctors, lawyers and in other
professional functions. Pius XI condemned these actions.
"Spiritually," the
pope said, "we are all Semites."
In the fall of 1938, LaFarge
realized finally that the pope still had not received the encyclical. He wrote
a letter directly to the pope, implying that Ledochowski had the document in
hand for months already. Pius XI demanded delivery, but did not receive it
until Jan. 21, 1939 with a note from Ledochowski, who warned that the language
of the document appeared to be excessive. He advised caution.
The pope, finally with
LaFarge's text, planned immediately to issue the encyclical after a meeting
with bishops on Feb. 11, in which he would condemn fascism. He worked on that
speech on his own, jotting down ideas, rewriting and editing it by hand.
Rumors, meanwhile, had reached Mussolini that the pope might be planning to
excommunicate him or even Hitler, also a Catholic, a blow that could actually
damage their popular power base.
Pius XI died on Feb. 10, 1939,
a day before his planned speech. Vatican doctors said he had suffered
complications of a heart attack, and despite administering stimulants, they had
been unable to revive him.
Bishops in some quarters grumbled
about the circumstances of his death and questioned the kind of stimulants he
had been given in an attempt to revive him. Cardinal Eugene Tisserant of
France, the pope's best friend and a former French intelligence officer, wrote
in his diary that the pope had been murdered.
Pacelli, the secretary of
state, became Pius XII, and the Vatican immediately toned down its vocal
protests against Hitler and Mussolini. One historian, Conor Cruise O'Brien, the
noted Irish writer and politician, in 1989 said that those months in 1938 were
crucial as Hitler measured how the world would react to his campaign against
the Jews.
"Had Pius XI been able to
deliver the encyclical he planned, the green light would have changed to red.
The Catholic Church in Germany would have been obliged to speak out against the
persecution of the Jews. Many Protestants, inside and outside Germany, would
have likely to follow its example."
How effective Pius XI's
efforts might have been can never be known. It was only clear that he took a
stance in favor of absolute morality and defended to his last breath his
principles of decency and humanity, nothing more, nothing less. ....
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