Reverence for Tradition

So, I want to explain why the Message of Our Lady of Fatima has to be central to our world view.

First of all, what makes the Fatima Message eminently trustworthy is that Our Lady at Fatima displayed a profound reverence for the consistent, unchanging teaching of the Church throughout the centuries. When Our Lady came to Fatima, She did not give us any new doctrine, nor did She give us a new understanding of Catholic teaching that would differ from the consistent teaching of the centuries. St. Paul said “But though we, or an angel from Heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema.” (Gal. 1:8)

And Our Lady followed these sacred guidelines. Not only did She have profound reverence for what the Church always taught, with the same meaning and in the same sense, (eadem sententia eodem sensu) but She reinforced key doctrines and orientations.

And the doctrines and orientations that She reinforced can give us a clue to those doctrines that would come under the greatest attack in our century.