(www.RemnantNewspaper.com)
The latest edition of Inside the Vatican
contains a bombshell revelation by Editor-in-Chief
Robert Moynihan regarding the continuing controversy
over the completeness of the Vatican’s disclosure of the
Third Secret, which has been “managed” by the Vatican
Secretary of State, Tarcisio Bertone, since 2000.
In an article entitled “Passing of a
Friend” (p. 4), Moynihan provides a tribute to
Archbishop Pietro Sambi, who served as papal nuncio to
the United States until his death in July. Moynihan
relates “four memories in particular [he] has of
[Archbishop Sambi],” the second of which is as follows:
We were discussing the Third Secret of
Fatima, the allegations that the Vatican has not
published the entire text of the Third Secret as
revealed to Sister Lucia, and the response of Cardinal
Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican secretary of state, in a
book where Bertone states that there is nothing more to
be revealed. Sambi said, “Excuse me.” He got up, went
out of the room, and came back with a book.
“Here,” he said. “Do you know this book?
You should read it.” It was Christopher Ferrara's The
Secret Still Hidden
“Wait,” I said. “You are the Pope's
representative in the US, and you are urging me to read
a book that questions what the secretary of state
wrote?” Sambi replied, “All I am saying is that there
are interesting things worth reading in this book. And
in the end, we are all after the truth, aren't we? The
truth is the important thing...”
Reached for comment, author Ferrara told
The Remnant: “I rejoice at the news that such a
high-ranking Vatican official had the openness of mind
to study the evidence which drove me to write the book
in order to present the evidence systematically. And I
mightily resisted the conclusion that there is a missing
companion text of the Secret, which would explain the
otherwise ambiguous and endlessly debated vision of the
‘Bishop dressed in white’. Who wants to be accused of
being a ‘conspiracy nut’ by the comfortable defenders of
the post-conciliar status quo? But, as Antonio Socci has
put it regarding his own journey in this matter: ‘In the
end I had to surrender’ to what the evidence shows. And
what it shows, as Socci also concluded, is that “it is
certain” that the missing text exists. Socci and I,
like the late Archbishop Sambi, are interested in the
truth, not the avoidance of offense to certain
prestigious personages.”
Ferrara added: “And God bless Robert
Moynihan for having the courage to publish this
important revelation. He had nothing to gain, humanly
speaking, from doing this. All praise to him! This is
but another crack in the dam of denial that has been
weakening steadily over the past seven years,
culminating in the Pope’s complete rejection in May of
2010 of the Secretary of State’s party line that the
Third Secret ‘belongs to the past.’ No, said the Pope,
it pertains to ‘future realities of the Church’—a clear
indication that there is something more. Then there was
the Fatima conference in Rome this May, attended by
Andrea Tornielli and Paolo Rodari as speakers, along
with me and others, and Cardinal Renato Martino, the
retired Vatican diplomat. The whole landscape is
changing, and we can hope this change is a prelude to
the full revelation of the Secret, the Consecration of
Russia, and the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart.” |