Sister Lucy’s Cell Ordered
Sealed by Cardinal Ratzinger
by Christopher Ferrara
Sister Lucy of Fatima died on
February 13, 2005 — the same day of the month on which the Fatima
apparitions occurred each month for six months (May - October) in 1917, and the
same day of the month on which Ali Agca attempted to assassinate the Pope in
1981.
The very next day Vittorio
Messori, one of Italy’s top journalists, whose interview of John Paul II
became the best-selling book Crossing the Threshold of Hope, broke the
stunning news in the Italian daily Corriere della Serra: "Secret of
Fatima, Sealed in the Cell of Sister Lucia." Messori reports that Sister
Lucy’s cell in the convent at Coimbra "has already been sealed" and that
"whatever is enclosed there will be passed through the sieve of trusted
theologians and monsignors sent, one supposes, by the same Cardinal Ratzinger
who, as custodian of orthodoxy, must keep at bay visionary temptations which
always reemerge."
Messori further reveals that
according to the Bishop of Coimbra, Sister Lucy’s now-sealed cell is where
"she would have had other apparitions, where she kept a diary, where she wrote
letters to the Pope, where she had undergone her mystical intuitions." Messori
adds that Ratzinger has not said that these pages will not end up, segregated
forever, in some inaccessible section of the Secret Archive of the Vatican.
So it seems that the last
surviving Fatima visionary, who had nothing further to reveal, as Cardinal
Ratzinger assured us in June 2000, may well have had a great deal more to
reveal — so much, in fact, that a "sieve" of reviewing monsignors and
theologians will be needed to investigate the contents of the sealed room.
As Messori notes, "the
departure of the last visionary has not closed the case. Perhaps, on the
contrary, it has opened new and unknown horizons. We do not know what will be
found in her inaccessible cloistered cell ..." Even in death, Sister Lucy of
Fatima remains under lock and key by order of Cardinal Ratzinger — the
same Cardinal Ratzinger whose "interpretation" of the vision presented as the
entire Third Secret was so clearly aimed at "gently debunking the cult of
Fatima," as even the Los Angeles Times could see.
The Secret of Fatima still
remains under the control of the Cardinal who seems determined to make it go
away forever. And yet, even now, it will not go away. As Mark Fellows has
observed (in his article, "Lucy and the Pirates"), "the cork continues to bob
to the surface." Heaven’s prophecies have a way of doing that until they
are fulfilled. And this one is a long way from fulfillment — no matter
what certain members of the Vatican apparatus would like us to believe.
No doubt the last surviving
Fatima seer is looking down on the scene from Heaven, with her two cousins, and
waiting for the inevitable disclosure of the whole truth about Fatima, and the
glorious fulfillment of the Fatima promises. May we, by the grace of God, live
to see that happy day.
This article was taken from
www.fatimaperspectives.com
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