Fátima - Have We Been Wrong for a Century?

With all the discussion around Francis's Consecration of Russia (or Russia and Ukraine, or all of humanity) yesterday, I have a different opinion I'd like to present.

Our Lady of Fátima appeared to the shepherd children on the 13th of every month from May to October 1917, with the exception of August. That month, the Freemasonic Municipal Administrator of Ourém, in which the locality of Fátima is located, had jailed the children in an effort to get them to recant their story. That month, instead of the usual apparition in the Cova da Iria on 13 August, the children reported that they saw the Virgin Mary on 19 August, a Sunday, at nearby Valinhos.

Note these dates well. All of the apparitions took place from 13 May through 13 October 1917. Why do I stress this and why should it give rise to an odd opinion about Fátima?

Because of a simple, often overlooked historical fact. Our Lady said that if Her requests were not heeded, Russia would 'spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church'. For over a century, it has been assumed that the 'errors' were those of Bolshevik Communism as typified by the Soviet Union which was dominated by Russians.

But, there is a problem with that assumption. When She made her statement about the 'errors of Russia' on 13 July 1917, the Bolshevik Revolution had not yet taken place and Russia was not yet a Communist country. It was a socialist country under the control of the Provisional Government, a multi-party regime. One thing that most of the parties were agreed upon was socialism. Not the violent, revolutionary 'socialism' preached by V.I. Ulyanov (Lenin), but the gradual transformation of state and society into the one-world, socialist, totalitarian  'utopia' by democratic means.

For instance, its last government was made up of Trudoviks, a faction of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, other members of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, Mensheviks (Russian Social Democratic Labour Party-Minority Faction, (the Bolsheviks being the Majority Faction of the RSDLP), with some members of the Constitutional Democrats and non-party members. The Socialist Revolutionaries, despite their name, had reluctantly accepted the idea of the advisability of a democratic transformation to socialism.

All of the socialist factions, along with the Bolsheviks, considered themselves Marxist, just with differing interpretations of Marxist doctrine.

Thus, at the time of the appearances of Our Lady at Fátima, the 'errors of Russia' could not have been the errors of Bolshevik Communism. What they were was the errors of the idea of an all-encompassing, one-world, socialist, atheist state controlling every aspect of life, economic, social and religious, arrived at by democratic means.

Does that sound familiar? It should be because that is the direction that virtually every Western State has been moving for the past century. If you don't believe me, look around! Britain, Canada Australia, the US, the EU, are all well advanced along the path to the totalitarian socialist state. With one or two exceptions, the former satellites of the Soviet Union are rapidly playing catch up with the West. Russia, itself, has lapsed back into totalitarianism under Putin. Even the Russian Orthodox Church, which 'bounced back' with the fall of the USSR, is steadily losing ground. 

The errors have even entered the Church. Just a couple of examples. Every Pope since John XXIII, with the exception of John Paul I, has addressed the atheistic, wannabe world governing UN in glowing terms. The Popes at the United Nations

Popes have also praised the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, an atheistic document which stands in stark opposition to Catholic teaching on matters like freedom of religion, divorce, and the origin of authority, stating that, 'The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government...'.

Francis, in one of his 'magisterial' in-flight press scrums, even went so far as to claim that the Church teaches that we have a 'duty' to obey the atheistic, anti-Christian UN. He said, 'I would like to repeat what the Doctrine of the Church says about this: When we acknowledge international organisations and we recognise their capacity to give judgment, on a global scale – for example, the international tribunal in The Hague, or the United Nations. If we consider ourselves humanity, when they make statements, our duty is to obey.' (10 September 2019, Source)

At any rate, I ask seriously, have we been misdirected by Satan for a century, ignoring the real 'errors of Russia'?