>> Narrator: A YOUNG NUN PENS A
LETTER DIVULGING A SECRET SHE
HAS KEPT SINCE CHILDHOOD, BUT
THE VATICAN FEARS THE LETTER'S EXPLOSIVE CONTENTS WOULD SHOCK
THE WORLD AND KEEPS IT LOCKED
AWAY FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS.
[ THUNDER CRASHES ] WERE WE WARNED NEARLY A CENTURY
AGO THAT IF WE DID NOT CHANGE
OUR WAYS WE WERE DOOMED?
IF SO, WHO HEARD THE WARNING? AND WHO WARNED US? FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, PROPHETS
AROUND THE WORLD HAVE PREDICTED
THE END OF DAYS.
MORE THAN ONE SUGGESTS THE APOCALYPSE IS FAST APPROACHING.
WE CALL THIS THEORETICAL
CONVERGENCE BETWEEN DOOMSDAY
PROPHECIES AND TODAY'S EVENTS THE NOSTRADAMUS EFFECT.
>> How will the end begin?
>> Narrator: 1917, JUST OUTSIDE
THE VILLAGE OF FáTIMA, PORTUGAL. THREE SHEPHERD CHILDREN CLAIM TO
EXPERIENCE VISIONS OF THE
VIRGIN MARY.
ACCORDING TO LEGEND, THE APPARITION SHARED WITH THEM
THREE CRYPTIC SECRETS ABOUT
MANKIND'S DARK FUTURE.
SHROUDED IN MYSTERY FOR 83 YEARS, THE FINAL PART OF THE
PROPHECY MAY HAVE FORETOLD THE
ULTIMATE CATACLYSM...
A NUCLEAR WORLD WAR III UNFOLDING IN OUR LIFETIME.
>> THERE WAS MUCH SPECULATION ON
THIS SECRET.
WHAT IS BEHIND IT? WHY IS IT NOT REVEALED?
WILL IT SPEAK ABOUT THE END OF
THE WORLD?
>> THIS SECRET HAD TO DO WITH THINGS THAT ARE SO DEVASTATING
THAT IT WOULD BE THE END OF THE
WORLD AS WE KNOW IT TODAY.
>> Narrator: WE WILL EXAMINE WHETHER THE THREE SECRETS OF
FáTIMA ARE LINKED WITH ACTUAL
EVENTS IN OUR TURBULENT PAST AND
IF THE THIRD AND FINAL PROPHECY DEPICTS A FUTURE WORLD
SMOLDERING FROM THE FLAMES OF A
THIRD WORLD WAR.
IF OTHER PROPHECIES INTERSECT WITH THIS THEORY, THIS MAY BE
EVIDENCE OF THE NOSTRADAMUS
EFFECT.
SPRING 1917. AS WORLD WAR I RAGED, BLOODSHED,
DISEASE, AND DEATH OVERWHELMED
EUROPE.
IN THESE DARKEST OF TIMES EMERGED REPORTS OF A MESSAGE,
PERHAPS DELIVERED BY AN EMISSARY
FROM GOD.
>> PEOPLE -- THEY WERE AWARE THAT SOMETHING HAPPENED THERE,
SOMETHING SUPERNATURAL.
>> Narrator: ON MAY 13th,
10-YEAR-OLD LUCIA SANTOS AND HER YOUNGER COUSINS, JACINTA AND
FRANCISCO MARTO, WERE WALKING
ALONG A MEADOW.
ACCORDING TO THEIR ACCOUNT, SUDDENLY THERE WAS A BLINDING
LIGHT.
A HEAVENLY FIGURE ON A CLOUD
APPEARED BEFORE THEM. LUCIA RECALLED IT WAS...
>> "A LADY CLOAKED IN WHITE,
BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN."
>> THEY ASKED, "WHO ARE YOU?" AND SHE SAID, "I'M OUR LADY."
AND, "WHERE DO YOU COME FROM?"
"WELL, I COME FROM HEAVEN."
AND THEN, "WHAT DO YOU WANT?" "I WANT YOU TO COME HERE EVERY
13th OF THE MONTH."
AND SO, FROM MAY TO OCTOBER,
ALWAYS ON THE 13th OF EACH MONTH, OUR LADY GAVE THEM AN
IMPORTANT MESSAGE.
>> Narrator: ACCORDING TO
BELIEVERS, AT THE HEART OF THIS MESSAGE WAS A WARNING THAT
HUMANITY HAS ANGERED GOD WITH
ITS SINFUL WAYS, AND THE
PUNISHMENT WILL BE WAR AND ANNIHILATION.
THE THREE CHILDREN WERE
CONVINCED THAT IF THEY RETURNED
TO THE MEADOW ON THE 13th OF EACH MONTH, MARY PROMISED TO
REVEAL HOW MANKIND MIGHT BE
REDEEMED.
THE CHILDREN AGREED TO RETURN TO RECEIVE HER INSTRUCTIONS.
ACCORDING TO THE STORY, AFTER
MARY'S FIRST VISIT, LUCIA
DECIDED THEY WOULD KEEP IT A SECRET, BUT THE YOUNGER JACINTA
COULDN'T CONTAIN HER EXCITEMENT.
SHE TOLD HER MOTHER, AND SOON
WORD BEGAN TO CIRCULATE. DESPITE DEEP RELIGIOUS
TRADITIONS WITHIN THE TOWN, MANY
WERE DOUBTFUL OF THE CHILDREN'S
STORY. >> ONCE THE WORD STARTED TO
SPREAD AROUND, THE MAJORITY OF
PEOPLE JUST DISMISSED IT AS A
CHILDHOOD FANTASY. >> Narrator: BUT EVEN UNDER
INTENSE INTERROGATION, THE
CHILDREN'S INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTS
WERE UNUSUALLY CONSISTENT, EACH VIVIDLY RECALLING MINUTE DETAILS
OF THE ENCOUNTER -- UNCOMMON FOR
CHILDREN OF SUCH A YOUNG AGE.
>> THEY KEPT ALWAYS FAITHFUL TO THE SAME VERSION OF THE FACTS.
AND SO THAT MADE ALSO PEOPLE TO
BELIEVE THAT WHY WERE THESE
THREE LITTLE KIDS, SOMETIMES EVEN THREATENED TO DEATH TO
CONFESS, WHY WOULD THEY KEEP
TELLING THIS IF IT WAS NOT TRUE?
>> Narrator: THE FOLLOWING MONTH, A FEW DOZEN VILLAGERS
ACCOMPANIED THE CHILDREN TO THE
MEADOW TO SEE IF THE VIRGIN MARY
WOULD APPEAR AS PROMISED. ACCORDING TO LATER REPORTS, SOME
CAME TO DISCREDIT THE CHILDREN.
MANY MORE TRULY WANTED TO
BELIEVE, BUT ALL THEY SAW WAS THE CHILDREN GO INTO A TRANCE
DURING THE SUPPOSED APPARITION
OF MARY.
STILL, AS THE WEEKS PASSED, INTEREST INTENSIFIED.
>> SO THE CROWDS GREW, AND THERE
WERE MORE AND MORE PEOPLE WHO
BELIEVED EACH TIME, EVEN THOUGH THEY SAW NOTHING.
>> Narrator: ACCORDING TO THE
CHILDREN, ON JULY 13, 1917, THE
DATE OF THE THIRD REPORTED VISIT, MARY FULFILLED HER
PROMISE TO REVEAL HOW MANKIND
HAS SINNED, HOW WE MIGHT BE
REDEEMED, AND THE HORRORS THAT LOOMED IF WE INSTEAD CHOSE TO
CONTINUE OFFENDING GOD.
SHE SUPPOSEDLY TOLD THE CHILDREN
THREE SECRET PROPHECIES WHICH THEY WERE NOT TO DISCLOSE TO
ANYONE UNTIL THE TIME WAS RIGHT.
THIS REVELATION WOULD WAIT
DECADES, BUT LUCIA KNEW THAT WHEN THE RIGHT TIME DID COME, NO
ONE WOULD BELIEVE THE MESSAGE
UNLESS THERE WAS UNDENIABLE
PROOF THAT IT WAS HEAVEN-SENT. >> THE CHILDREN SAID TO THE
BLESSED MOTHER, "WE'RE TRYING TO
GET PEOPLE TO BELIEVE US, BUT
WE'RE HAVING A LOT OF DIFFICULTY."
AND THE BLESSED MOTHER SAID, "ON
OCTOBER 13th, AROUND 12:00, I
WILL PERFORM A MIRACLE FOR ALL TO SEE."
>> Narrator: ON THAT VERY DAY,
THE DATE OF THE APPARITION'S
FINAL VISIT, REPORTS SUGGEST THAT AS MANY AS 70,000
RAIN-SOAKED PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER
PORTUGAL STOOD IN MUDDY FIELDS
AND CLAIM TO HAVE WITNESSED WHAT BECAME KNOWN AS "THE MIRACLE OF
THE SUN."
>> THE WAY MY GRANDFATHER
DESCRIBED IT, THE SKIES OPENED, AND THERE WAS THE SUN --
BEAUTIFUL, WONDERFUL COLORS.
IT WAS, LIKE, DANCING -- THAT
WAS THE WAY HE DESCRIBED IT. THE SUN WAS DANCING ALL AROUND.
SOME PEOPLE THOUGHT IT WAS THE
END OF THE WORLD.
>> FOR MILES AROUND, PEOPLE SAW THIS STUPENDOUS SIGN IN THE SKY.
IT WAS SEEN BY ABOUT ANOTHER
15,000 OR SO IN THE PERIPHERY
FOR ABOUT 20 MILES IN EACH DIRECTION.
I MEAN, THEY WEREN'T ALL
DRINKING.
YOU KNOW, IT WOULD HAVE TAKEN SOMETHING CATASTROPHIC TO
ACCOUNT FOR EVERYBODY HAVING A
MASS HYSTERIA LIKE THAT.
>> Narrator: THERE IS NO PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE OF THE
SUPPOSED APPARITION, AND MOST
EXPERTS AGREE THAT A ZIGZAGGING
SUN IS SIMPLY NOT POSSIBLE, CITING THE PHYSICAL LAWS OF THE
UNIVERSE.
>> FROM THE SCIENTIFIC
PERSPECTIVE, I CAN TELL YOU THAT PHYSICALLY DID NOT HAPPEN.
THE SUN DID NOT CHANGE ITS
ROTATION RATE.
IT DIDN'T CHANGE ITS POSITION IN ANY WAY, BECAUSE IF THAT HAD
HAPPENED, ALL LIFE ON PLANET
EARTH WOULD HAVE BEEN
IMMEDIATELY DRIVEN TO EXTINCTION.
I DON'T DENY THEIR EXPERIENCE.
I'M DENYING THEIR INTERPRETATION
OF THE EXPERIENCE. >> Narrator: STILL, THE VATICAN,
THE WORLD'S PREEMINENT CATHOLIC
INSTITUTION, MAINTAINS TO THIS
DAY A CLEAR POSITION ON THE DRAMATIC EVENTS THAT TRANSPIRED
THAT RAINY SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
>> THE CHURCH IS EXTREMELY
CAREFUL WHEN IT DETERMINES WHETHER OR NOT THERE IS ANY
REASON TO BELIEVE THAT AN
APPARITION TRULY TOOK PLACE, AND
THEY DO AN EXTREMELY THOROUGH EXAMINATION TO PROTECT THEIR
CREDIBILITY.
THE MIRACLE OF THE SUN THAT TOOK
PLACE ON OCTOBER 13th IN 1917 WAS SUCH A PROFOUND MIRACLE,
WITNESSED BY 70,000 PEOPLE, THE
CHURCH BELIEVES WAS A MATTER OF
DIVINE INTERVENTION. THE CHURCH ACCEPTS THIS AS A
MIRACLE.
>> Narrator: A YEAR AFTER THE
REPORTED APPARITIONS OCCURRED, AN INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC SWEPT
THROUGH EUROPE.
THE TWO YOUNGEST SHEPHERD
CHILDREN LATER SUCCUMBED TO THE ILLNESS, NEVER HAVING UTTERED A
WORD OF THE SECRET PROPHECIES.
BUT THE ELDEST CHILD, LUCIA,
SURVIVED AND, SEVERAL YEARS LATER, JOINED A CONVENT.
BUT IT WASN'T UNTIL HER 1941
MEMOIR THAT SISTER LUCIA FINALLY
FELT IT WAS THE RIGHT TIME TO REVEAL THE FULL CONTENTS OF THE
SO-CALLED "FIRST SECRET." >> OUR LADY WAS TELLING US WE'RE
ALL GOING TO ENCOUNTER DEATH AND
JUDGMENT IF WE LIVE BAD LIVES,
SINFUL, AND DIE OUTSIDE OF GOD'S GRACE, OFFENDING HIM, WE WILL BE
LOST.
AND I THINK THAT WAS THE REASON
WHY GOD ALLOWED THE LITTLE CHILDREN TO SEE HELL.
>> Narrator: ACCORDING TO
LUCIA'S ACCOUNT, THE FRIGHTENING
IMAGES OF HELL REVEALED TO THE CHILDREN ARE REMARKABLY SIMILAR
TO THE DESCRIPTION OF HELL IN
THE BIBLE'S CONTENTIOUS BOOK OF
REVELATION. THE BOOK OF REVELATION ENDS WITH
THOSE WHO HAVE SINNED BURNING IN
JUST SUCH A HELL, EXACTLY AS THE
FIRST SECRET OF FáTIMA PORTENDS. OR COULD THE FIRST SECRET HAVE
BEEN A PROPHECY ABOUT
WORLD WAR I, A WAR THAT RAGED AT
THE SAME TIME THE PROPHECY WAS ALLEGEDLY REVEALED TO THE
CHILDREN IN 1917?
>> IT'S POSSIBLE THAT THESE
PROPHECIES COULD HAVE HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE CARNAGE
THAT WAS GOING ON IN
WORLD WAR I, WHERE YOU HAD
BATTLES, LIKE VERDUN OR THE SOMME, WHERE YOU HAD
HUGE ARTILLERY SHELLS, GAS
KILLING THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE.
>> Narrator: ACCORDING TO LUCIA, MARY SAID, "THIS CURRENT WAR
WILL END, BUT ANOTHER WAR, ONE
FAR MORE HEINOUS, WILL COME," IF
HER WARNING AGAINST ATHEISM IS NOT HEEDED.
HOW MIGHT THE PROPHECY OF THIS
NEXT GREAT WAR BE CONNECTED TO
THE EVEN DEADLIER THIRD SECRET? >> Narrator: MANY DEVOUT
CATHOLICS BELIEVE THAT IN 1917
AN APPARITION OF THE VIRGIN MARY
BESTOWED UPON THREE PORTUGUESE CHILDREN THE SO-CALLED "THREE
SECRETS OF FáTIMA."
THESE PROPHECIES ARE SAID TO
WARN HUMANITY OF A TERRIFYING END TO THE WORLD IF PEOPLE DO
NOT RETURN TO A PATH OF
RIGHTEOUSNESS.
BUT IS THERE ANY TRUTH TO THIS STORY?
A CLOSER EXAMINATION MAY SHED
LIGHT ON A POSSIBLE CONNECTION
BETWEEN THESE SECRETS AND TODAY'S UNREST.
SOME PROPOSE THERE IS A DIRECT
CORRELATION BETWEEN MARY'S
PROPHECY OF DOOM AND THE CURRENT CONFLICT BETWEEN THE WORLD'S TWO
LARGEST RELIGIONS.
COULD THE LOCATION OF THE
APPARITIONS PROVIDE A CLUE TO THIS LINK?
>> THEY TOOK PLACE IN FáTIMA,
PORTUGAL, AND FáTIMA WAS NAMED
AFTER A PRINCESS WHO WAS NAMED AFTER MUHAMMAD'S MOST BELOVED
DAUGHTER, MUHAMMAD BEING THE
PERSON WHO BEGAN THE RELIGION
ISLAM THAT THE MUSLIMS FOLLOW TODAY.
>> Narrator: SOME BELIEVE IT IS
NOT A COINCIDENCE THAT THE NAMES
OF TWO OF THE MOST IMPORTANT RELIGIOUS FEMALE FIGURES, MARY
AND FáTIMA, PLAY A SIGNIFICANT
ROLE IN THIS STORY.
>> THE MUSLIM PEOPLE HAVE GREAT RESPECT FOR THE BLESSED MOTHER.
YOU KNOW, SHE'S THE ONLY WOMAN
MENTIONED IN THE QUR'AN.
>> MARY, OUR HEAVENLY MOTHER, IS IN THE QUR'AN MORE THAN SHE'S IN
THE BIBLE.
SO THERE'S A MYSTERIOUS KIND OF
CONNECTION. >> Narrator: BELIEVERS SUGGEST
THIS CONNECTION WAS THE REASON
MARY CHOSE THE TOWN OF FáTIMA TO
BESTOW HER PROPHECIES. >> MARY CAME TO FáTIMA AS A SIGN
OF HER THANKFULNESS TO THE
MUSLIM PEOPLE FOR HAVING SUCH A
RESPECT FOR HER. >> Narrator: MIGHT THE SO-CALLED
"PROPHECIES OF FáTIMA"
EVENTUALLY HOLD THE KEY TO
RELIEVING TODAY'S WORLDWIDE TURBULENCE?
AND CAN THIS BE A PROGRESSION OF
EVENTS THAT BEGAN DURING THE
FIRST HALF OF THE 20th CENTURY? ONLY THE SOLE SURVIVING WITNESS
TO THE APPARITION OF MARY WOULD
HAVE THE ANSWERS.
24 YEARS AFTER CLAIMING TO BE VISITED BY THE HOLY APPARITION,
LUCIA SANTOS, LIVING AS A NUN IN
TUI, SPAIN, DECIDED THE WORLD
WAS FINALLY READY TO HEAR THE FIRST TWO OF THE THREE SECRETS
OF FáTIMA.
THE THIRD AND MOST FRIGHTENING
OF THE PROPHECIES WOULD REMAIN HIDDEN FOR ANOTHER 60 YEARS.
>> IN 1941, SHE BEGAN TO WRITE
HER MEMOIRS, AND THIS IS WHERE
SHE REVEALED EVERYTHING THAT HAD HAPPENED.
>> Narrator: FIRST WAS A
GRUESOME VISION OF SOULS BURNING
IN HELL, WHICH SOME INTERPRET AS A MESSAGE ABOUT THE HORRORS OF
WORLD WAR I. TO SOME, THE CONVERGENCE OF THIS
SECRET WITH ACTUAL WORLD EVENTS
IS VERY REAL.
WORLD WAR I DID END THE YEAR AFTER MARY'S SUPPOSED APPEARANCE
IN FáTIMA.
ALSO, AT THAT TIME IN 1917, A
POPE PIUS XI DID NOT EXIST. ONLY TIME WOULD TELL IF THIS
PREDICTION WOULD COME TRUE.
>> THE POPE AT THE TIME OF THE
VISION WAS BENEDICT XV, SO OUR LADY EVEN NAMED THE POPE --
POPE PIUS XI.
>> Narrator: BUT THERE WAS MORE
INTRIGUE BEHIND THE PROPHECY. LUCIA RECALLED THAT MARY'S DARK
DIVINATION WARNED OF A
MYSTERIOUS OMEN THAT WOULD
SIGNAL THE BEGINNING OF A NEXT GREAT WAR. JANUARY 25, 1938 -- TWO MONTHS
AFTER ADOLF HITLER HELD A SECRET
CONFERENCE TO REVEAL HIS WAR
PLANS TO HIS CLOSEST ADVISERS, AN OMINOUS SERIES OF LIGHT
PATTERNS ILLUMINATED THE NIGHT
SKY OVER THE WHOLE OF EUROPE.
WAS THIS THE FOREBODING SIGN DESCRIBED IN THE SECOND SECRET
OR A COSMIC COINCIDENCE?
>> THIS SPECTACULAR
AURORA BOREALIS WAS SEEN THROUGHOUT EUROPE, SO MUCH SO
THAT PEOPLE IN SWITZERLAND COULD
READ THEIR NEWSPAPERS AT
11:00 P.M. AT NIGHT, AND THIS WAS THE SIGN THAT GOD IS ABOUT
TO PUNISH THE WORLD.
>> Narrator: BUT THE CAUSE OF
THIS NATURAL PHENOMENON IS CLEARLY ROOTED IN SCIENCE.
>> IT DOESN'T HAPPEN ALL THE
TIME THAT YOU GET THE
AURORA BOREALIS BEING SEEN AT THOSE SOUTHERLY LATITUDES.
BUT IN 1938, THEY WERE AT SOLAR
MAXIMUM, AND AT SOLAR MAXIMUM,
YOU GET THESE SOLAR STORMS -- STRONG MAGNETIC-FIELD PATTERNS
ON THE SUN THAT INTERACTS WITH
THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD AND
CAUSES BRIGHT AURORAL DISPLAYS. >> Narrator: SOME BELIEVE THE
LIGHT DISPLAY IN 1938 APPEARS TO
LEND SOME CREDENCE TO THE MYTH.
>> IT WAS 47 DAYS AFTER THAT THAT HITLER INVADED AUSTRIA.
>> THE PEOPLE SAID THAT HAPPENED
IN 1938, BUT THE WORLD WAR
DIDN'T BEGIN UNTIL 1939. BUT ACTUALLY, HISTORIANS SAY THE
WAR BEGAN WHEN HITLER MOVED HIS
SOLDIERS INTO AUSTRIA, AND SO IT
HAPPENED DURING THE TIME, PONTIFICATE OF POPE PIUS XI.
>> Narrator: THE SECOND SECRET
CULMINATED WITH YET ANOTHER
WARNING, THIS ONE ABOUT THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC
PHENOMENON THAT WAS SWEEPING THE
WORLD DURING THIS TIME,
COMMUNISM, AND ITS PERPETRATOR, RUSSIA.
ACCORDING TO LUCIA, MARY HAD
SAID... >> A CONSECRATION IS AN
ENTRUSTMENT OF SOMETHING TO GOD,
A COUNTRY OR A PERSON OR
SOMETHING PLACED UNDER THE PROTECTION OF GOD OR THE BLESSED
VIRGIN MARY.
>> OUR LADY WARNED THAT, IN
RUSSIA, AN EVIL WOULD BEGIN, WHICH WAS COMMUNISM, WHICH WOULD
SPREAD ITS ERRORS AROUND THE
WORLD.
IT'S THROUGH COMMUNISM THAT WE GOT GODLESS GOVERNMENT, BECAUSE
THEY WERE ATHEISTIC.
>> Narrator: IN 1917, REVOLUTION
SWEPT THROUGH RUSSIA, OUSTING THE CZARIST FAMILY AND, SOON
AFTER, CREATING A COMMUNIST
DICTATORSHIP, THE SOVIET UNION.
RIVALS FOR POWER WERE SOON ELIMINATED, INCLUDING RELIGIOUS
LEADERS.
>> THEY DESTROYED THE CHURCHES.
THEY DESTROYED THE RELIGIOUS ARTICLES.
THEY MURDERED THOUSANDS OF
CIVILIANS AND SAID, "IT IS THE
POWER AND AUTHORITY OF GOVERNMENT NOW THAT WILL EXCEED
GOD IN YOUR LIVES."
>> PEOPLE IN THE SOVIET UNION
ACTUALLY THOUGHT IT WAS THE END TIMES, AND THEY THOUGHT THAT
LENIN WAS THE ANTICHRIST BECAUSE
HE TOLD THEM THERE WAS NO GOD,
IT'S JUST THE STATE, AND HERE'S LENIN, AND HE'S GOING TO GIVE
YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED.
HE'S ALMOST LIKE A NEW GOD.
>> Narrator: ACCORDING TO THE STORY, THESE VIOLATIONS AGAINST
CHRISTIANITY PROMPTED YET
ANOTHER HOLY APPARITION.
>> ON JUNE 13, 1929, OUR LADY APPEARED TO SISTER LUCIA, AND
SHE SAID, "THE MOMENT HAS COME
IN WHICH GOD ASKS THE
HOLY FATHER, IN UNION WITH ALL THE BISHOPS THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE
WORLD, TO CONSECRATE RUSSIA, AND
A CERTAIN PERIOD OF PEACE WILL
BE GRANTED TO MANKIND." >> Narrator: WITH HUMANITY'S
FATE POSSIBLY HANGING IN THE
BALANCE, LUCIA RELAYED HER
URGENT MESSAGE TO THE CURRENT POPE, NAMED PIUS XI, AS WAS
PREDICTED.
BUT THE POPE DECIDED NOT TO
CARRY OUT THE ORDER. >> FOR SOME REASON, THE POPE
BELIEVED IN THEM, BUT HE DIDN'T
ACT ON THAT CONSECRATION, AND
SOME FEEL -- IN FACT, EVEN SISTER LUCIA DID MENTION THIS --
THAT THAT DELAY ALLOWED THE
EVILS OF COMMUNISM TO SPREAD.
>> Narrator: MOST HISTORIANS WOULD DISAGREE, INSTEAD BLAMING
THE SPREAD OF COMMUNISM ON THE
GROWING STRENGTH OF THE
SOVIET UNION. BY 1941, WORLD WAR II RAGED
THROUGHOUT EUROPE.
MILLIONS WERE SUFFERING UNDER
THE GROWING TERROR OF THE SOVIET UNION'S OPPRESSIVE
COMMUNIST SYSTEM.
MILLIONS MORE WERE DYING ON
BATTLEFIELDS AND IN LABOR CAMPS. IN AN ATTEMPT TO STOP THE
DEVASTATION, THE NEXT POPE,
PIUS XII, PROCEEDED WITH THE
CONSECRATION OF RUSSIA. >> POPE PIUS XII DID MAKE A
FIRST CONSECRATION OF RUSSIA TO
THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY.
BUT, AS LUCIA THEN SAID, IT WAS NOT DONE ACCORDING TO WHAT OUR
LADY HAD REQUESTED, BECAUSE IT
WAS MADE BY THE POPE HIMSELF,
NOT IN UNION WITH ALL THE BISHOPS AROUND THE WORLD.
>> Narrator: MARY'S ORDER --
STILL UNFULFILLED.
TWO MORE ATTEMPTS AT CONSECRATION WERE MADE IN 1952
AND 1964, BUT ACCORDING TO THE
DISTRAUGHT SISTER LUCIA, GOD
REMAINED DISPLEASED. [ THUNDER CRASHES ]
AND THE WORLD WOULD SUFFER FOR
IT.
>> BECAUSE THE CONSECRATION DIDN'T TAKE PLACE WHEN GOD
WISHED IT TO TAKE PLACE, RUSSIA
SPREAD HER ERRORS THROUGHOUT THE
WORLD. >> Narrator: JUST AS THE
APPARITION OF MARY HAD ALLEGEDLY
WARNED, CHINA BECAME A COMMUNIST
STATE IN 1949. FIDEL CASTRO OFFICIALLY DECLARED
CUBA COMMUNIST IN 1961.
BY THE EARLY 1980s, NEARLY A
THIRD OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION LIVED UNDER COMMUNIST RULE.
RUSSIA HAD SUCCESSFULLY SPREAD
COMMUNISM AND ATHEISM.
SOME BIBLE EXPERTS SUGGEST THE SPREAD OF COMMUNISM WAS ALSO
FORETOLD IN THE BOOK OF
REVELATION, SOMETIMES CALLED
"THE BOOK OF THE APOCALYPSE." >> IN APOCALYPSE 12:3, IT TALKS
ABOUT A GREAT RED DRAGON, AND HE
SWEPT A THIRD OF THE STARS.
AND WHAT'S ALSO INTERESTING IS, AT THE HEIGHT OF ITS POWER, THE
COMMUNIST EMPIRE HELD ABOUT A
THIRD OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION.
>> Narrator: BUT IS THIS HARD EVIDENCE THAT MULTIPLE
PROPHECIES HAD CONVERGED WITH
ACTUAL EVENTS AND THAT THE
SECOND SECRET MAY HAVE FORETOLD THE SPREAD OF COMMUNISM?
IN THE MEANTIME, A THIRD AND
MORE HORRIFYING SECRET WAS YET
TO BE DIVULGED, ONE THAT, ACCORDING TO BELIEVERS, MAY PLAY
OUT IN OUR LIFETIME.
>> IN 1941, SISTER LUCIA WROTE
DOWN THE FIRST TWO SECRETS AT THE REQUEST OF THE BISHOP OF
LEIRIA-FáTIMA, AND THE BISHOP
SAID TO SISTER LUCIA LATER ON,
"THERE'S MORE. WE KNOW THERE'S MORE."
>> Narrator: WHEN SISTER LUCIA
FELL ILL IN 1943, THE BISHOP
ORDERED HER TO WRITE DOWN THE THIRD SECRET THAT SHE HAD KEPT
HIDDEN FOR SO MANY YEARS.
LUCIA COMPLIED, BUT THE WORLD
WOULD HAVE TO WAIT A LITTLE LONGER.
SHE WROTE OUT THE SECRET AND
SEALED IT IN AN ENVELOPE,
REQUESTING THAT IT ONLY BE OPENED IN 1960 OR UPON HER
DEATH.
BUT WHY 1960?
AND WHAT ARE THE EXPLOSIVE CONTENTS WITHIN THIS ENVELOPE? >> Narrator: A WIDELY BELIEVED
ACCOUNT SUGGESTS THAT IN 1917 AN
APPARITION OF THE VIRGIN MARY
APPEARED TO THREE CHILDREN IN THE SMALL PORTUGUESE VILLAGE OF
FáTIMA.
SHE SHARED WITH THEM THREE
SECRETS CONTAINING A SERIES OF OMINOUS PROPHECIES.
BY 1960, MANY DEVOUT CATHOLICS
AROUND THE WORLD WERE CERTAIN
THAT THE PROPHECIES IN THE FIRST TWO SECRETS HAD ALREADY COME
TRUE.
BUT THE THIRD SECRET AND ANY
PROPHECIES IT MAY HOLD REMAINED A MYSTERY.
EQUALLY MYSTERIOUS WAS
SISTER LUCIA'S DIRECTIVE THAT
THE THIRD SECRET NOT BE REVEALED UNTIL 1960, WHEN, SHE SAID, THE
WORLD COULD PROPERLY INTERPRET
IT.
>> EVERY SUBSEQUENT POPE AFTER THAT WAS GIVEN THE SECRET TO
READ IN A SEALED ENVELOPE.
THE POPE READ THE SECRET AND
DECIDED WHETHER THE TIME WAS RIGHT TO REVEAL THAT SECRET OR
NOT, AND MOST OF THE POPES AFTER
THAT SAID, "THE TIME'S NOT RIGHT
YET." THEY SEALED IT BACK UP AGAIN,
AND THEY PUT IT BACK IN THE
VATICAN ARCHIVES.
>> Narrator: MANY WONDER WHY THE VATICAN SUPPOSEDLY WENT AGAINST
LUCIA'S WISHES TO REVEAL THE
SECRET IN 1960.
PUBLIC SPECULATION ABOUT ITS CONTENTS RANGED FROM NUCLEAR
ARMAGEDDON TO DEEP RIFTS IN THE
CATHOLIC CHURCH.
1960 -- THE HEIGHT OF THE COLD WAR.
THE U.S. WAS LOCKED IN A NUCLEAR
STALEMATE WITH THE SOVIET UNION.
THE SPREAD OF COMMUNISM LOOMED, A DIRECT RESULT OF WORLD WAR II.
WHEN CUBA FELL TO COMMUNIST
REBELS, MARXIST IDEOLOGY GAINED
A FOOTHOLD IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.
>> THERE WAS THIS DOMINO THEORY
THAT ONCE ONE COUNTRY BECOMES
COMMUNIST, IT FALLS LIKE A DOMINO, AND THEN ANOTHER COUNTRY
BECOMES COMMUNIST, AND ANOTHER
AND ANOTHER AND ANOTHER.
>> Narrator: IN RESPONSE, THE CIA PLANNED THE BAY OF PIGS
INVASION TO OVERTHROW
FIDEL CASTRO'S CUBAN REGIME.
>> THE GOVERNMENT WILL DO EVERYTHING IT POSSIBLY CAN TO
MAKE SURE THAT THERE ARE NO
AMERICANS INVOLVED IN ANY
ACTIONS. >> Narrator: BUT THIS COUP
ATTEMPT FAILED.
TENSIONS BETWEEN THE U.S. AND
CUBA'S SPONSOR, THE USSR, ESCALATED.
THOSE WHO BELIEVED IN THE
PROPHECIES OF FáTIMA FEARED THAT
THE THREAT OF NUCLEAR WAR WAS PERHAPS THE THIRD SECRET OF THE
PROPHECY.
STILL, OTHERS SUSPECTED THE
THIRD AND FINAL SECRET PERTAINED SPECIFICALLY TO THE CATHOLIC
CHURCH ITSELF.
AND THIS, ACCORDING TO SOME,
COULD BE A LINK TO THE PREDICTIONS OF 16th-CENTURY
MYSTIC NOSTRADAMUS.
NOSTRADAMUS SEEMS TO HAVE
WRITTEN ABOUT THE PAPACY IN QUATRAINS THAT HAVE INTRIGUED
SCHOLARS EVER SINCE. POPE PIUS XI, THE ONE APPARENTLY
PROPHESIED IN LUCIA'S ACCOUNT OF
THE SECOND SECRET OF FáTIMA,
HELD THE HOLY SEAT FOR 17 YEARS -- EXACTLY THE AMOUNT OF
TIME MENTIONED IN NOSTRADAMUS'
PREDICTION.
AND IT WAS DURING HIS PONTIFICATE THAT WORLD WAR II
BEGAN...
AS WAS ALSO PREDICTED BY THE
SECOND SECRET, ACCORDING TO LUCIA.
COULD THIS BE A PREVIOUSLY
UNEXPLORED CONNECTION BETWEEN
THE THREE SECRETS OF FáTIMA AND NOSTRADAMUS? THE FIFTH POPE AFTER PIUS XI WAS
POPE JOHN PAUL II, THE FIRST
NON-ITALIAN PONTIFF IN 450
YEARS. MANY CATHOLICS BELIEVE THAT
JOHN PAUL IS THE VERY SUBJECT OF
THE THIRD SECRET OF FáTIMA.
>> POPE JOHN PAUL II -- HIS MOTTO WAS "TOTUS TUUS" --
"I AM ALL YOURS."
HIS PONTIFICATE WAS DEDICATED TO
OUR LADY. JOHN PAUL II SAID, "THE MESSAGE
OF FáTIMA IS MORE IMPORTANT
TODAY THAN EVER."
>> Narrator: BUT WHAT IS THAT MESSAGE?
SOME EXPERTS BELIEVE THE THIRD
AND FINAL SECRET REVEALS A
CORRUPTION OF THE VATICAN... AN ABANDONMENT OF THE PRINCIPLES
OF THE SCRIPTURES...
AND THE EVENTUAL DEMISE OF THE
CATHOLIC CHURCH. >> APOSTASY IS A GIVING UP OF
THE REAL CATHOLIC FAITH
COMPLETELY, SEEMINGLY HAPPENING
INSIDE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND STARTING FROM THE VERY TOP.
>> Narrator: BUT THE CATHOLIC
CHURCH PERSEVERES, MEANING IT IS
UNLIKELY THAT ITS DESTRUCTION IS WHAT THE VATICAN MIGHT HAVE BEEN
CONCEALING.
THIS LEADS SOME TO SUSPECT THE
FINAL SECRET OF FáTIMA COULD INDEED BE A PROPHECY OF NUCLEAR
APOCALYPSE AND OUR ULTIMATE
ANNIHILATION. >> Narrator: A BLESSED
APPARITION, THREE SHEPHERD
CHILDREN, AND THREE DARK
SECRETS, ALL SUPPOSEDLY SHROUDED IN THE PROTECTIVE ARMOR OF THE
VATICAN -- THESE ARE THE
PROPHECIES OF FáTIMA.
FOR OVER 80 YEARS, THE ENDURING MYSTERY OF THE THIRD SECRET
DEFIED EXPLANATION.
THIS IS BECAUSE THE SECOND
SECRET SUPPOSEDLY CLAIMED THAT IF RUSSIA WAS NOT CONSECRATED,
NATIONS WOULD BE DESTROYED.
MANY CATHOLICS FEARED THE FINAL
SECRET CONTAINED AN HORRIFIC PROPHECY FORETELLING NUCLEAR
WAR.
THEN, ON MAY 13, 2000, THE
83-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST APPARITION, THE VATICAN
ANNOUNCED TO THE WORLD THAT THE
THIRD SECRET WOULD FINALLY BE
REVEALED. THE VATICAN PUBLISHED THE
MYSTERIOUS CONTENTS OF
SISTER LUCIA'S LETTER RECEIVED
IN 1944, WHICH DETAILED THE FINAL PROPHECY.
THE FIRST PART OF THE THIRD
SECRET TOLD OF AVERTED DISASTER. >> IT CONVEYED THE IDEA THAT A
TERRIBLE FIRE WOULD ENGULF THE
EARTH, AND AS THE ANGEL WAS
READY TO TOUCH THE EARTH WITH THE FLAMING SWORD, THE
BLESSED MOTHER PUT HER HAND OUT
AND STOPPED THE SWORD FROM
TOUCHING THE WORLD. I BELIEVE SHE SAVED US FROM A
POSSIBLE ATOMIC WAR.
>> Narrator: WAS THIS A PROPHECY
FOR THE FUTURE...OR THE PAST? UPON WRITING THE LETTER,
SISTER LUCIA HAD WARNED THAT IT
NOT BE OPENED UNTIL 1960.
IS THERE A CONNECTION BETWEEN THAT DATE AND THE VIRGIN MARY'S
PROPHECY OF WORLD ANNIHILATION?
APRIL 17, 1961.
THE U.S. LAUNCHED ITS FAILED BAY OF PIGS INVASION ON THE
SOUTHERN SHORES OF CUBA.
THIS SEMINAL EVENT LED DIRECTLY
TO THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS OF OCTOBER 1962, WHERE THE WORLD'S
FIRST NUCLEAR SUPERPOWERS
ENGAGED IN A STANDOFF THAT HAD
THE POTENTIAL TO DESTROY THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT.
>> RUSSIA HAD BROUGHT ATOMIC
MISSILES TO CUBA, SO CLOSE TO
OUR SHORELINE, AND PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY SAID,
"LOOK, NO WAY.
WE WANT THOSE MISSILES OUT OF
THERE RIGHT AWAY." AND RUSSIA SAID, "IT'S NOT GONNA
HAPPEN."
WE KNEW WE HAD THE GUN POINTED
AT OUR HEAD. >> ...SHALL BE THE POLICY OF
THIS NATION TO REGARD ANY
NUCLEAR MISSILE LAUNCHED FROM
CUBA AGAINST ANY NATION IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE AS AN ATTACK
BY THE SOVIET UNION ON THE
UNITED STATES.
>> KENNEDY HAD MADE IT VERY CLEAR IN A TELEVISED ADDRESS
THAT IF A MISSILE COMES FROM
CUBA, WE WILL REACT AS IF IT HAD
COME FROM MOSCOW. SO IF THOSE MISSILES HAD COME
FROM CUBA, WE WOULD HAVE SENT
NUCLEAR MISSILES TO THE SOVIET
UNION, AND THE SOVIET UNION WOULD HAVE RESPONDED BACK.
SO IT WOULD HAVE BEEN WORLDWIDE
ANNIHILATION.
>> Narrator: HISTORIANS BELIEVE THE DIPLOMATIC SKILLS OF
PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY --
COINCIDENTALLY OUR FIRST AND
ONLY CATHOLIC PRESIDENT -- PREVENTED A CATASTROPHIC NUCLEAR
EXCHANGE.
SINCE THE 1980s, COMMUNISM HAS
RETREATED, AND TODAY, RELATIONS BETWEEN THE U.S. AND RUSSIA HAVE
SOFTENED CONSIDERABLY.
MOST HISTORIANS ATTRIBUTE THIS
COOPERATION TO THE FALL OF THE SOVIET UNION.
BUT DEVOUT CATHOLICS GIVE SOME
OF THE CREDIT TO ONE OF THEIR
MOST BELOVED PONTIFFS, POPE JOHN PAUL II, AND HIS DEEP
PERSONAL LINK TO LUCIA AND THE
THIRD SECRET OF FáTIMA.
>> POPE JOHN PAUL SAW HIMSELF IN THAT PARTICULAR SECRET.
>> Narrator: AS ONE OF THE
VATICAN'S MOST IMPORTANT FIGURES
SINCE THE 1960s, THE POPE MAY HAVE KNOWN THE THIRD SECRET FOR
DECADES, BUT ONLY UPON ITS
MOMENTOUS REVELATION DID HIS
CONNECTION TO IT FINALLY BECOME CLEAR.
LUCIA'S RECOLLECTION OF THE
THIRD SECRET CONTINUED... TO MANY, THIS PORTION OF THE
THIRD SECRET DESCRIBES THE
EVENTS OF MAY 13, 1981 --
EXACTLY 64 YEARS AFTER THE VIRGIN MARY'S REPORTED FIRST
APPEARANCE IN FáTIMA.
20,000 DEVOTEES LINE
ST. PETER'S SQUARE FOR THE PAPAL ADDRESS.
SUDDENLY, SHOTS RANG OUT...
AS A GUNMAN ATTEMPTED TO TAKE
THE LIFE OF POPE JOHN PAUL II. >> AS HE WAS RECUPERATING FOR
ABOUT THREE WEEKS, HE ASKED FOR
ALL OF THE DOCUMENTATION ON
FáTIMA TO BE BROUGHT TO HIM. >> THIS ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION
PROVOKED THE HOLY FATHER TO
RE-EXAMINE THE THIRD SECRET, AND
IT OCCURRED TO HIM THAT THIS SECRET WAS ABOUT HIM AND THAT IT
WAS FULFILLED WITH THIS
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.
>> HE SAID, "ACCORDING TO THAT APPARITION, I WOULD HAVE DIED,
BUT I CAME TO THE THRESHOLD OF
DEATH, AND THE BLESSED MOTHER
PREVENTED ME." AND HE SAID THAT OUR LADY GUIDED
THAT BULLET ALL THROUGH HIM.
THE BULLET MISSED MAJOR ORGANS
IN THE BODY OF THE HOLY FATHER BY JUST FRACTIONS AND FRACTIONS
OF AN INCH.
>> Narrator: A SECOND ATTEMPT ON
THE POPE'S LIFE CAME A YEAR LATER DURING A VISIT TO, OF ALL
PLACES, FáTIMA, PORTUGAL.
A CATHOLIC PRIEST TRIED TO STAB
THE POPE WITH A BAYONET BUT WAS THWARTED BY SECURITY.
SOON AFTER THE SECOND
ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT, JOHN PAUL
DECIDED IT WAS TIME TO PROPERLY CONSECRATE RUSSIA.
>> HE WROTE A LETTER TO ALL THE
BISHOPS, INCLUDING THE ORTHODOX
BISHOPS, INVITING THEM TO JOIN HIM FOR THE CONSECRATION OF THE
WORLD, INCLUDING RUSSIA, TO
THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY.
>> Narrator: ON MARCH 25, 1984, OVER 50 YEARS AFTER LUCIA FIRST
APPEALED TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH,
THE VATICAN GRANTED CONSECRATION
TO RUSSIA. >> AND SISTER LUCIA SAID, "YES,
HOLY FATHER, HEAVEN HAS ACCEPTED
THE CONSECRATION."
AND THEN MANY THINGS TOOK PLACE AFTER THAT THAT WERE SO
WONDERFUL.
GORBACHEV COMES INTO POWER, HE
HAS A CHANGE OF HEART, AND HE DECIDES THAT HE WANTS TO GO AND
VISIT THE POPE.
>> MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, WITH A KGB
BACKGROUND, THE MOST POWERFUL COMMUNIST DICTATOR IN THE
WORLD -- HIS HEART WAS SOFTENED.
HIS INTELLECT WAS ENLIGHTENED.
HE SAW TRUTH. >> Narrator: SOME EXPERTS
DISAGREE THAT THE COLLAPSE OF
THE FORMER SOVIET UNION WAS
DIVINE INTERVENTION. THEY SAY, INSTEAD, IT WAS
RUSSIA'S STRATEGY OF
SELF-PRESERVATION AND SURVIVAL
IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD. >> THE SOVIET UNION HAD BEEN A
STAGNANT COUNTRY AND A STAGNANT
ECONOMY FOR ABOUT 20 YEARS WHEN
GORBACHEV FINALLY GOT IN POWER. THE ECONOMY WAS FAILING.
PEOPLE WERE WAITING IN LINE
HOURS JUST FOR BREAD AND FOR
TOILET PAPER. HE WANTED TO BRING THAT SENSE OF
OPENNESS AND RESTRUCTURING,
BECAUSE HE REALIZED HE HAD TO.
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV DIDN'T HAVE A CHANGE OF HEART ABOUT COMMUNISM.
IT WAS SIMPLY A REFORM THAT GOT
OUT OF HAND.
>> Narrator: STILL, SOME SUSPECT A HIGHER POWER AT WORK TO
RE-ESTABLISH RELIGIOUS PRACTICES
IN A REGION THAT HAD BEEN
OPPRESSED FOR OVER 70 YEARS. >> CONSIDER THE MOST ATHEISTIC
COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, FORCING
ATHEISM EVERYWHERE.
GORBACHEV VISITS THE POPE. THE FLAG COMES DOWN OVER
COMMUNIST RUSSIA FOR THE LAST
TIME.
THE WALL COMES DOWN. AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IS AGAIN
PRACTICED IN RUSSIA, AND TODAY
THE SPIRITUAL RESURGENCE IN
RUSSIA IS ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL. >> Narrator: IS IT POSSIBLE THAT
THESE DECISIVE MOMENTS, FROM THE
CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS TO THE
COLD WAR AND THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS ON THE POPE, ALONG WITH
THE FALL OF COMMUNISM ARE ALL
MERE COINCIDENCE?
OR COULD THEY BE THE FINAL FULFILLMENT OF THE FáTIMA
PROPHECY?
>> BY 1989, THE BERLIN WALL CAME
DOWN WITHOUT A BATTLE. THE PEOPLE WHO PUT IT UP TOOK IT
DOWN.
THAT'S A CONVERSION.
IT'S A CHANGE OF HEART. >> IT ENDED THE COLD WAR, AND IT
ENDED THAT IMMEDIATE THREAT OF
NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION THAT HAD
REALLY HUNG OVER THE WORLD SINCE THE EARLY 1950s.
>> Narrator: STILL, SOME
MAINTAIN THERE IS A FURTHER,
DARKER PROPHECY HELD IN THE THIRD SECRET, THAT THIS MYSTERY
IS NOT YET RESOLVED.
WHY DO MANY STILL BELIEVE THE
FáTIMA PROPHECY RELATES TO WORLD WAR III? >> Narrator: IT IS ONE OF THE
MOST ENDURING AND MYSTERIOUS
CONTROVERSIES OF THE CATHOLIC
CHURCH -- THE PROPHECIES OF FáTIMA.
>> I THINK THERE IS SO MUCH
CONTROVERSY AND SPECULATION
BECAUSE WE HUMAN BEINGS, WE WANT TO SEE THINGS CLEARLY.
AND SO WE NEED TO LOOK FOR
ANSWERS.
>> WE'RE AT A CROSSROADS, AND ONE DIRECTION WILL LEAD TO WORLD
PEACE.
AND IF WE CHOOSE THE WRONG
DIRECTION, IT WILL LEAD TO WARS SO TERRIBLE THAT NATIONS WILL BE
ANNIHILATED.
>> Narrator: THE FIRST SECRET
FORETOLD SOULS BURNING IN HELL. THE SECOND SECRET WARNED OF A
DEVASTATING WAR.
BELIEVERS SAY BOTH OF THESE SEEM
TO HAVE BEEN REALIZED AS WORLD WAR I AND WORLD WAR II.
BUT SOME SAY THE THIRD PROPHECY
REMAINS UNFULFILLED.
IF SO, WHAT HIDDEN TRUTHS MIGHT LIE IN THE VATICAN VAULT?
>> THERE ARE STILL SOME PEOPLE,
SOME GROUPS WHO DENY THAT THE
FULL TEXT HAS BEEN REVEALED AND THAT THE VATICAN HAS KEPT
SOMETHING HIDDEN.
>> THE VATICAN RELEASED WHAT
THEY SAID WAS THE THIRD SECRET ON JUNE 26, 2000, AND IT CAN'T
BE THE THIRD SECRET.
A PERSON WHO GOT A CHANCE TO
LOOK AT THE THIRD SECRET SAID THAT THE THIRD SECRET IS ABOUT
20 TO 25 LINES.
THE VATICAN'S VERSION OF THE
THIRD SECRET OF FáTIMA IS 62 LINES.
THE VATICAN'S VERSION OF THEIR
THIRD SECRET DOESN'T CONTAIN ANY
SIGNATURE AT THE END OF THAT BY SISTER LUCIA.
ALL THE LETTERS WE KNOW OF, THE
AUTHENTIC ONES FROM
SISTER LUCIA, HAVE HER SIGNATURE AT THE END.
>> Narrator: THERE ARE THOSE WHO
BELIEVE THIS SUPPOSEDLY
STILL-HIDDEN PART OF THE THIRD SECRET CONTAINS A PROPHECY OF
FUTURE ANNIHILATION, PERHAPS A
NUCLEAR EXCHANGE.
BUT MOST VATICAN SUPPORTERS ARE SATISFIED THAT THE CHURCH HAS
ADEQUATELY REVEALED THE WORDS OF
SISTER LUCIA'S APPARITION OF THE
VIRGIN MARY. >> THINKING THAT THE THIRD
SECRET HAS NOT BEEN REVEALED IN
ITS ENTIRETY IS SENSATIONALISM.
THE THIRD SECRET'S BEEN REVEALED IN ITS ENTIRETY.
BECAUSE THE VATICAN HAS LUCIA'S
ORIGINAL WRITTEN IN PORTUGUESE.
AND YOU CAN GO ON THE INTERNET AND FIND IT.
>> POPE JOHN PAUL II SAID THE
MESSAGE WAS GIVEN.
THE PRESENT HOLY FATHER, POPE BENEDICT XVI, SAID THE
WHOLE MESSAGE HAS BEEN GIVEN.
SISTER LUCIA, I UNDERSTAND, FROM
PEOPLE WHO KNEW HER, WAS VERY UPSET WHEN PEOPLE SAID THE WHOLE
MESSAGE WAS NOT GIVEN.
>> Narrator: ON FEBRUARY 13,
2005, AFTER A LIFETIME SATISFYING WHAT SHE BELIEVED
WERE THE BLESSED MOTHER'S WISHES
TO SPREAD THE MESSAGE OF FáTIMA,
SISTER LUCIA DIED OF NATURAL CAUSES AT THE AGE OF 97.
TWO MONTHS LATER,
POPE JOHN PAUL II, AGED 84, ALSO
DIED. TODAY, THE VATICAN CONTINUES TO
UPHOLD ITS BELIEF IN THE EVENTS
THAT TOOK PLACE IN FáTIMA IN
1917. >> POPE BENEDICT XVI WROTE A
COMPLETE, COMPREHENSIVE
EXPLANATION OF FáTIMA.
THE APPARITIONS HAVE THE APPROVAL OF THE CHURCH.
ALL OF THE PROPHECIES HAVE COME
TRUE.
>> Narrator: BUT FOR SOME, QUESTIONS REMAIN ABOUT WHETHER
THE PROPHECIES ARE COMPLETE.
THEY BELIEVE WE MAY STILL BE
HEADING FOR GLOBAL ANNIHILATION. >> THE PROPHECY HAS TWO SIDES TO
IT.
EITHER THERE WILL BE WAR SO
TERRIBLE THAT NATIONS WILL BE ANNIHILATED, OR THERE WILL BE
WORLD PEACE.
>> Narrator: TO THE CATHOLIC
CHURCH AND BELIEVERS IN THE PROPHECY, THE MESSAGE OF FáTIMA
REMAINS URGENT.
>> THE MESSAGE THAT OUR LADY
CAME TO BRING -- IT'S OFTEN CALLED "THE PEACE PLAN FROM
HEAVEN."
MARY CAME TO TELL US THAT WE
HAVE TO LIVE RESPONSIBLE LIVES. >> THE APPARITIONS OF
OUR LADY OF FáTIMA WERE ONE WAY,
AMONG MANY, OF GOD COMING INTO
OUR WORLD AND SAYING, "WATCH OUT.
THERE'S SOMETHING WHICH IS NOT
GOING WELL.
THE WORLD IS IN DANGER. WE ARE NOT HAPPY WITH WHAT IS
GOING ON."
>> Narrator: HAS THE THIRD
SECRET BEEN DECISIVELY REVEALED, OR IS THERE MORE, AS SOME
BELIEVE, HIDDEN IN THE LONG
SHADOW OF THE VATICAN?
>> WHEN YOU LOOK AT OUR COUNTRY TODAY, AND I'M TALKING ABOUT THE
UNITED STATES, WE ARE PERCHED ON
THE PRECIPICE OF THE
ANNIHILATION OF NATIONS OUR LADY WARNED OF.
BUT ANNIHILATION -- WHEN YOU
SAY THAT WORD, A MUSHROOM CLOUD
COMES TO PEOPLE'S MINDS AND EVERYTHING BEING BLOWN UP.
BUT THAT'S ONLY ONE WAY TO
ANNIHILATE A NATION.
IF YOU DECIMATE THE ECONOMY OF A NATION, YOU ANNIHILATE IT.
>> Narrator: INTERPRETERS OF
TODAY'S EVENTS SUGGEST THAT
THERE IS THAT POSSIBILITY, WITH WALL STREET IN CONTINUED CRISIS
AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN THE HANDS
OF RADICAL EXTREMISTS.
>> THE UNITED STATES IS THE ONLY COUNTRY THAT HAS EVER USED
NUCLEAR WEAPONS, AND I THINK,
ONCE THE SECOND COUNTRY DOES IT,
IT'LL BE MUCH EASIER FOR THE THIRD AND THEN THE FOURTH AND
THEN THE FIFTH ONE TO DO IT.
>> Narrator: OTHERS SUGGEST
THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SUCCESSFULLY CHANGE COURSE.
>> THE REAL QUESTION IS WHETHER
WE USE OUR FREE WILL TO BRING
WORLD PEACE TO EARTH FIRST... >> AS THE WORLD'S TWO LEADING
NUCLEAR POWERS, THE
UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA MUST
LEAD BY EXAMPLE. >> ...OR WHETHER WE USE OUR FREE
WILL TO BRING HELL TO EARTH
FIRST.
BECAUSE WHAT'S AT STAKE IS THE SALVATION OF SOULS AND WORLD
PEACE.
AND WHAT COULD BE MORE IMPORTANT
TO HUMANITY THAN THE SALVATION OF SOULS AND WORLD PEACE?
>> Narrator: IF THE FáTIMA
PROPHECY CONVERGES WITH PEACE
AMONG NATIONS, THIS MAY SERVE AS A FINAL VINDICATION OF THE THREE
CHILDREN AND THEIR VISION.
