Today's Crisis Within the Church is Because Russia is Spreading Her Errors

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Today's Crisis Within The Church IsBecause Russia Is Spreading

Her Errors

Pope John Paul II at Fatima

Pope John Paul II wants to stop the crisis within the Church by obeyingOur Lady of Fatima but he needs your support. For more information onthis see block of articles starting from "World Peace or the Annihilationof Nations" and ending with "In Defense of God's Right" in theTable of

Contentsin this Issue.

INTRODUCTION

For the above-mentioned reasons, we publish here this open letter by FatherGruner, sent originally to the few people who wrote directly to us suggestingthat we, too, remain silent about the Vatican-Moscow Agreement.

We feel it is necessary to arm our readers against the errors of these peoplewho would have us throw down the arms of truth. If the Faithful do not knowtheir Faith is under attack and from what quarter, they will not know how to

defend themselves. Our whole purpose in publishing this is for the preservationof the Catholic Faith and to enable the Bishops to obey Our Lady of Fatima

before it is too late.
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God, in 1938, worked "the Great Sign" so that the people would know that theChurch and the Pope are being persecuted to this day. God worked this GreatMiracle precisely because the fact of this most bloody persecution is hiddenfrom us by the media and most Church media which do not generally keep itbefore our view. This persecution is the cause of the 20 years of Vatican silence

regarding Communism. The knowledge of the extreme danger we are in isessential for the salvation of many souls and for world peace, because without itthe people will not energetically defend themselves and the Faith.

We are pleased to note that a Catholic paper which had originally attacked usfor publishing these facts has written to Father Gruner to apologize andwithdraw their false allegations.

This is our response: Jesus said, "The truth will make you free." The truthshould be evident to any believing Catholic upon reading and studying this openletter. We hope and pray and trust that - with the help of Our Lady - you will

know how to defend yourself against the errors of those who say we must closeour eyes and not see that Communist Russia, by its bloody persecution, has

silenced the Vatican for 20 years. They erroneously say we must not see thatCommunists are successful in warring against us through their agents who are

wolves dressed in sheep's clothing. St. Paul tells us, "There are none so blind asthose who will not see."

Our readers should not be surprised that some good but misguided people try tobury the truth of what we have reported. They may have been deceived by theerrors Our Lady said would be spread. The fact that a few members of theClergy and laity try to prevent the truth from being known just demonstrates

the truth of Our Lady's words that "Russia would spread her errors" so thatnow, even within the Church, some people try to silence us from crying out toyou, "You are in mortal danger - your Eternal Salvation is in danger - here iswhat you must do."

A few readers did not see the point of publishing this material. We thought itshould be self-evident but we have written them to explain further. Morerecently it has come to our attention that one European columnist with a littleinfluence in the U.S.A. has dismissed the reports of The Fatima Crusaderandother Catholic papers of U.S.A., Italy, France and Great Britain as "Extremist."Apparently, a U.S.A. magazine has used the same name-calling tactic without in

the least answering the documentation and the reasons presented by TheFatima Crusaderand other Catholic journals who courageously publish the

truth.

Our recent articles regarding the Vatican-Moscow Agreement have beencarefully read and gratefully accepted by members of the clergy and laity

around the world. Most of the readers who wrote us on this subject showed theyunderstood the articles and our purpose in publishing them.


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We have received many letters, most of them positive, regarding theSeptember-October 1984 issue of The Fatima Crusader, of which over 180,000copies have been distributed. Your letter was one of only four or five frompeople who expressed some reservations regarding part of the contents of thatissue. We received only a few more letters similar to yours referring to the April

1985 Issue ofThe Fatima Crusader,of which over 320,000 copies have beendistributed. Most people, indeed, continued to give us their moral and financialsupport after Issue No. 17. In fact, we have been enthusiastically congratulatedfor bringing the Vatican-Moscow Agreement to the attention of God-lovingCatholics.

Referring to the Vatican-Moscow Agreement, you ask, ''WHAT GOOD ISBEING DONE BY TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT SUCH AN AGREEMENT, ANDCONCLUDING IT WAS A BETRAYAL OF THE CHURCH? OR A SURRENDER TO

MILITANT ATHEISM?"

I appreciate the fact that you took the time and effort to write yourquestion toThe Fatima Crusader.Many people from all walks of life have

followed The Fatima Crusaderreasoning and have been grateful to us forbringing this matter to their attention.

However, as a result of your letter, we realize that there are still a fewpeople who do not see the importance of letting the faithful know that theirChurch is being silenced due to tremendous pressure from Soviet Russia(see The Fatima Crusader,Issue No. 16,"The Present-Day Persecution of theChurch by Communist Russia Seriously Threatens Your Eternal Salvation"). Inow realize that some people, for whatever the causes, could not understand

just how important and useful the publication of the Vatican-Moscow Agreementis. For whatever the cause, you were unable to follow the reasoning givenin The Fatima Crusader,Issue No. 16, which pointed out the importance ofthese facts being published. I shall try, therefore, to explain more fully whatgood these articles do.

In Loyalty to Pope John XXIII

These facts of the Rome-Moscow Agreement are published together with

original Fatima Crusaderarticles commenting on this Agreement out of loyaltyand support to the efforts of His Holiness, Pope John Paul II, as well as those of

Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI. Pope John XXIII only intended theagreement to be a short-term policy. We know this from the fact that hethought that Vatican II would only be of short duration. We also know hiscommitment to orthodoxy in Doctrine and he could never have wanted thedisastrous effects that this policy has caused due to its continuing for a longperiod of time. To defend Pope John XXIII, we pointed out why, as a short-termpolicy, such an agreement could have been justified in the light of the thencurrent events of international politics that Pope John XXIII knew so well (The
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Fatima Crusader, Issue No. 16, footnotesNo. 1and No. 2 to article "The FatimaCrusaderComments on the Vatican/Moscow Agreement").

Pope Paul VI also tried to stop what he called "the auto-destruction of theChurch" as he saw the "smoke of Satan" enter the Church, but having been

close to the Vatican-Moscow Agreement negotiations, he failed to see that itwas this agreement which, in fact, was a major cause of the terrible disorder inthe Church which he denounced so publicly, or else he was by then unable toact. Pope Paul VI also was very concerned about orthodoxy.

In Support of Pope John Paul II

This article about the Vatican-Moscow Agreement, as well as its

sequel"The Vatican Silenced by Moscow"in Issue No. 17, together with thenumerous articles related to the facts published in those articles, is published

especially out of loyalty and support and help to Pope John Paul II and those

Cardinals around him, particularly Cardinals Ratzinger, Oddi and Gagnon, whoshow extraordinary and enlightened loyalty and defense of the Pope and theCatholic Faith. It is in support of Pope John Paul II as he sets about the

superhuman task of changing this Vatican Policy, especially now that furtherpassage of time has also demonstrated the necessity of breaking loose from

these clutches of Soviet Russia.

Pope John Paul II Needs Our Prayers

As we reported in our September-October issue of The Fatima Crusader,Issue No. 16,"Pope John Paul II Denounces Communist Regimes for

Persecuting Catholics",the Pope already has personally repudiated this Vatican-Moscow Agreement by denouncing in February-March 1984 the persecution of

Catholics in Russia and Albania and Lithuania. The Pope has continued to breakout of this disastrous agreement by formally ordering Cardinal Ratzinger, Head

of the Holy Office, to publish the first major anti-Communist documentpublished by the Vatican in over 20 years. I refer to the document regarding so-

called Liberation Theology.

Cardinal Ratzinger willingly worked hard at preparing this document. Butthe Pope needs the support of our prayers and also needs the moral support of

the laypeople and religious and the clergy as he faces strong opposition to this

very important change of policy from within the Vatican. As you may know,Cardinal Casaroli, the Secretary of State, has publicly disowned and impliedcriticism of the above-mentioned document against Liberation Theology.

It is particularly fitting that The Fatima Crusaderand other Fatima-orientedmagazines should help the Pope as he struggles against opposition from withinthe Church, to protect the Faith against the "errors of Russia" that Our Ladysaid would be spread among us if we did not listen to Her requests of Fatima.
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Vatican-Moscow Agreement Must Be Repudiated

As we shall see, it is fitting for The Fatima Crusaderto take the lead in thepublication of this news. This is because the Vatican-Moscow Agreement mustbe repudiatednot only by the Pope but also by all the Catholic Bishops. As you

know, Mary, Our Blessed Mother, said "God Promises to Save Russia By ThisMeans." That is, as Jesus Himself has confirmed to Sister Lucy of Fatima, thatGod will only convert Russia and bring peace to the world through the solemnand public Consecration of Russia by the Pope together with all the CatholicBishops on one specific day.

The Pope and all the Catholic Bishops must, therefore, obey this commandof God given by the Most Holy Trinity in a most solemn way on June 13, 1929,

through Our Lady of Fatima. (Regarding this serious obligation of the Bishops,see also Professor, Father Joseph de Ste. Marie's article,"The Church's Duty inthe Face of the Fatima Message",Issue No. 9-10 of The Fatima Crusader.See

also Issue No. 11-12,"World Peace Depends on the Catholic Bishops and You".)In order for them to obey in the precise manner that God demands of them, theBishops must all repudiate the Vatican-Moscow Agreement.

Thus, we see that it is most appropriate for The Fatima Crusaderto take

the lead in warning the Catholic Bishops and the faithful about the Vatican-Moscow Agreement. This is because in North America, it is only The FatimaCrusadermagazine which clearly and continuously tells the people about this

most urgent command to the Pope and all the Catholic Bishops by God. Nohuman plans, no policies of diplomacy, no reasons of State can overrule this

direct command of God given through the Message of Fatima, which is a very

extraordinary intervention of God in human history.

Serves the Catholic ChurchThe Fatima Crusader

In all this, we see that The Fatima Crusaderdoes us all a great service bybringing this most important truth about the Collegial Consecration of Russia toour attention. Thus, we are all reminded to pray for Pope John Paul II and prayfor the Bishops who are loyal to him so that they can fulfill the duty God hasgiven them.

In addition, we see that The Fatima Crusaderis truly loyal to the Most Holy

Trinity as we do what we can to make all aware of God's command. We seethat The Fatima Crusaderis loyal to Jesus and Mary and to Our Holy Father,Pope John Paul II, as he tries very hard to obey Them in this matter. Thus, wesee The Fatima Crusaderis truly a great Catholic Magazine, particularly in tunewith Pope John Paul II as he tries to obey Our Lady of Fatima to get Russiaproperly Consecrated and as His Holiness struggles to get the whole Church,together with himself, to repudiate the Vatican-Moscow Agreement.
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Enemies Penetrate Deeply Into The Church

Pope John Paul II particularly needs our prayers and our moral support andpractical support because the existence of the Vatican-Moscow Agreement formore than twenty years has allowed our enemies to make deep inroads into

various important positions in the Church around the world. In Rome, CardinalGagnon, President of the Pontifical Council for the Family, has, at the beginningof 1985, confirmed that Pope John Paul II is being hindered from governing theChurch by a network of people in the Vatican as well as in Nationalgovernments. Cardinal Gagnon gave the example of how he could notget rid of

a certain person working in his department. Even Pope John Paul II, whoagreed with Cardinal Gagnon, was unable to get rid of this unsuitable

individual.

Catholic Faith Undermined By Moscow

Above all, this article should lead pious people to pray for His Holiness,Pope John Paul II, as he tries against tremendous odds to change this Vaticanpolicy. We see now why the K.G.B. would want to hire a man like Agca to shootthe Pope. If the people only knew of the tremendous danger the Pope and ourFaith are in as a result of this agreement, they would hasten to obey Our Ladyof Fatima. Pope John Paul II said at Fatima that Our Lady came because Shesaw the very basis of our Salvation undermined by our enemies. The Vatican-Moscow Agreement, which has now gone into the long-term, has greatly helpedthe militant atheists in undermining the Catholic Faith, which is the basis of ourSalvation.

By informing the people about this agreement, they can protectthemselves. As long as the people are faced with the silence of the Vatican and

the Bishops regarding Communism, they may be led (in fact, I know that anumber have already been led) to think that Communism is not intrinsicallyperverse, that it is not a danger, that one can be a Marxist and a Catholic at thesame time. See, for example, the article by Jim Castelli in Our Sunday VisitorofFebruary 19, 1984, page 6, in which Castelli, a staff writer for Our SundayVisitorstates or implies that one can be a Catholic and a Marxist at the sametime. This is heresy.

The Visitor, as you know, has a circulation of about 200,000 copies

circulated among Catholics. By at least revealing the source of the Vatican'slong silence, we will help stop the process whereby thousands - perhaps millions

- of Catholics have been so terribly deceived into thinking there is nothingwrong with Communism.

Bishops, Priests and Informed LaymenMust Warn the People


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We can better understand the betrayal of the Church by the Vatican-Moscow Agreement by considering the following lesson from the Book ofEzechiel in the Bible. The refusal to warn the Faithful of the dangerous approachof a mortal enemy is likened in Sacred Scripture to a watchman on guard dutywhose job and God-given duty is to cry out when he sees an enemy approach.

For him not to cry out is a betrayal of his sacred trust. The watchman on duty isthe Bishop, and to a lesser, but still very real extent, the priest. To cry out isour duty; to remain silent is a betrayal in such circumstances.

To illustrate our point, let us for a moment quote Cardinal Spellman, who,some years ago, writing about his patriotic duty, spoke about his obligations tobreak silence regarding the threat of Communism:

"I feel that I would not be a true American if I entered into theconspiracy of silence and did not raise my voice above those whoprivately and in whispers talk about Communism but neither act nor

speak publicly against the insidious enemy of Americanism.

"It is my firm faith that the first step in defense of American safetyand unity is to break the conspiracy of silence enveloping andendangering her. "

Obedience to God Demands that the Faith

Must Be Defended

This same line of reasoning holds true for defending the Catholic Churchagainst the insidious enemy of Communism, which has now succeeded in

introducing some of its subversive agents into the Catholic clergy and intoCatholic lay organizations. Such an agreement allows the enemies of God to

attack and undermine the very foundation and basis of the Church and ourSalvation. This basis and foundation is none other than the Catholic Faith. Such

an agreement allows the wolf to devour the sheep in great numbers as thepastors are apparently voluntarily held in bondage and sit idly and silently by as

very many souls are lost. THIS IS UNILATERAL DISARMAMENT OF THECHURCH. To understand this point more fully read"The Catholic Church

Betrayed"in The Fatima Crusader, April 1985.

It should be evident from all the above that the Vatican-Moscow

Agreement entered into on a long-term basis can never be justified.

Not even the order of a Pope could justify such a long-term agreement. St.Robert Bellarmine would say such an order can - indeed, must be - resisted. St.Thomas Aquinas says that the Catholic Faith must be defended by all, to theextent they can. No one, not even the Pope, can order the Church to throwaway the armament of truth and thereby hand over the Church into bondage toSoviet Russia.
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Therefore, I hope that you can see that we are not moved to publish theseaccounts about the Vatican-Moscow Agreement by any animosity towardCardinal Tisserant. If he was holy, it was despite this agreement, not because ofit. We published this report because it is important for the Salvation of souls,and for the cause of Our Lady of Fatima, that the facts be known clearly.

Cardinal Tisserant's Error

Regarding your defense of Cardinal Tisserant, it is not enough for one inhis position to advocate prayers for the conversion of Russia. Certainly, prayeris necessary and it must be advocated. However, for Cardinal Tisserant orothers in a similar position to only advocate prayers is not enough. Prayersmust be joined to fulfillment of daily duty. Thus, for Cardinal Tisserant to

advocate prayer, yet, at the same time, to conclude a long-term agreementwith Soviet Russia, whereby he bound the Vatican to not do its duty, to God andto us, of denouncing the evils of Communism - is not the act of a saint.

Defending the Faith a Sacred Trust

To come back to your question, "What good is being done by telling peopleabout such an agreement and concluding it was a betrayal of the Church?" Whatis good? Good is determined by the truth. Good is what our final purpose in lifeis, and whatever leads us to the final end, which is the happiness of seeing Godface to face in heaven. How do we know the final purpose of life and the meanswhereby we are to achieve this purpose? We know these things by our Faith.So, to take away the Faith by silence or by words is evil. An agreement to notdefend the Faith by those commissioned and entrusted with the sacred duty of

defending the Faith, cannot but be evil and a betrayal of a sacred trust. This isself-evident.

Thus, we can conclude, that it is, no doubt, a betrayal of the Church, toagree to maintain silence about the intrinsic evilness of Soviet Communismtoday. It is not a temptation to speak out against such a betrayal. Rather, it is a

temptation to maintain silence, even if, as you say, you find that it really paysto accentuate the positive.

It is the devil's trick to suggest to us that we should maintain silence in theface of this Vatican-Moscow Agreement. It is not a question of sowing suspicion

and discord; it is a question of telling the people the truth, the facts so that theycan protect themselves and their neighbors against the wiles of the devil and hishuman associates, the militant atheists.

Communist Secret Police Agent Nikodim

Regarding your defense of the Russian Orthodox Bishop Nikodim, we wishto point out that your affirmation that Nikodim was another St. Thomas More is


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not true. Nikodim is not canonized. Furthermore, St. Thomas More neverworked for an atheistic regime as a member of their secret police, as didNikodim. St. Thomas More was not a cleric. St. Thomas was a Catholic, amember of the ''One True Church" founded by Jesus Christ. St. Thomas Morewas executed rather than renounce his allegiance to the Church and the Pope.

Nikodim was, or claimed to be, an ordained Bishop but he was not a member ofthe Catholic Church. He was employed willingly by the Soviet atheistic state inthe service of the hated K.G.B. police while wearing the garment of a religiousman.

That he may have converted before he died, we have reason to believe,and we give thanks to God for this. But his later conversion does not make theVatican-Moscow Agreement something for him to be commended for by God orby man.

Crisis Is Grave

We try to accentuate the positive in The Fatima Crusaderby first pointingout that there is a real problem in the Church and in the world. Then we show

our readers that there is only one solution to these problems, and that eachreader has a duty to do all he can to be part of this solution - by fulfilling Our

Lady's requests, so that many souls will be saved and there will be peace, andso that we will not all be enslaved by Russia, which is certain to happen if thepeople continue to effectively ignore Our Lady of Fatima.

The People Need to Know the Facts

To bring across the urgency, the reality, and the authenticity of Our Lady'sMessage of Fatima to the general public today, we must publish the facts about

how far Russia has already succeeded in silencing the Church and also insilencing Our Lady of Fatima's Message. We must show how Russia, thereby, is

on the verge of winning this battle against the Church.

Pope John Paul II stated, "Our Lady's Message at Fatima is addressed toevery human being." We, therefore, try to bring the Message of Fatima to

everyone's attention and show the relevance of this Message for our time. AtFatima on May 13, 1982, Pope John Paul II also proclaimed, "The Message of

Fatima is more relevant and more urgent today than it was 65 years ago." The

urgency of today's critical situation in the Church and the world must bebrought home to the general public if they are going to finally react in time.Thus, the people need to know the facts. Pious exhortations to a relatively fewpeople are not enough.

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Thus, they need to know their Faith is being undermined by the Vatican-Moscow Agreement. They need to know that the only hope for winning this warwith Communism is obedienceto Our Lady of Fatima, but this obedience ispresently stopped by the Vatican-Moscow Agreement.

Therefore, with regard to your suggestion that the agreement between theVatican and Moscow should remain secret, we disagree. Firstly, it was not asecret. What we published was already published by the French Catholic andCommunist press at the time of the agreement. Only very few editors (forexample Mr. Madiran), realized the grave implications of this agreement at thetime. It has been more recently published again in the Catholic journals inFrance and in Italy (one Italian Catholic magazine that has carried this storycritical of the agreement is edited by a personal priest friend of Pope Paul VI -Monsignor Luigi Capovilla) as well as in Scotland by the Catholic

magazineApproaches, edited by Mr. Hamish Fraser, the well-known convertfrom Communism who spoke at a large Blue Army Rally in Paris. This Vatican-

Moscow Agreement, as you know, has been publicly confirmed by MonsignorGeorges Roche, official biographer of Cardinal Tisserant. (See The Fatima

CrusaderIssue No. 17,The Vatican Silenced by Moscow.) So the agreementwas not a diplomatic secret; it was, rather, unknown to much of the public in

North America. Secondly, we have already at length explained in this letter, aswell as in IssuesNo. 17andNo. 16of The Fatima Crusader, why we think this

agreement should be as widely known as possible.

In all this, we should remember that even our mistakes will be used by OurLady to bring about Her ultimate triumph over the forces of militant atheism,that is, Communism and Freemasonry. Therefore, that Nikodim and Tisserant

imposed this agreement which is a betrayal of the Church does not make it lessof a mistake for the agreement to have been made. It is just that God allowsevil in order to be able to draw a greater good out of it.

Betrayals of the Faithful Today

The betrayal of the Church by the long-standing Vatican-Moscow

Agreement may not have been intentional on the part of the Vatican officials,but that it is a betrayal of the faithful is seen by the spread of the Russian

Communist errors among the faithful in various forms of so-called ''LIBERATIONTHEOLOGY.''

This ''Theology" contains errors which are contrary to the Catholic Faithwhile at the same time this so-called Theology claims to be Catholic. Thus, theunsuspecting are fed poisonous doctrine in the name of Catholic teaching.

There are also many other betrayals of the faithful today. Betrayal of theChurch can also be seen in Catechisms in North America. For example, "TheJesus Book" is heretical, yet in 1974 this book was recommended by a
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Catechetic Committee of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops inWashington. Another fundamental betrayal of the Faithful regards the Messageof Fatima. Despite the efforts of various Fatima apostles and apostolates, stillfar too many of the faithful are ignorant about the crucial importance of Fatima.Pope John Paul II has publicly lamented the fact that the Message of Fatima has

not been welcomed as it ought to have been. Concerning Fatima, witness theconspiracy of silence regarding the necessity of all Catholic Bishops to solemnlyand publicly consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in order toobtain peace. This consecration has not been done.

Everyone Must Be Told

Father Pierre Caillon is recognized as an expert on Fatima by The Fatima

Crusadermagazine, Soulmagazine, andApproachesmagazine, as well as bymany people. By now, you should be aware of what he reported Sister Lucy hadofficially said to the Papal Nuncio to Portugal, His Excellency Archbishop

Portalupi (see The Fatima CrusaderIssue No. 16,"Fatima May 13, 1982: WhatActually Happened? Was Russia Consecrated to the Immaculate Heart ofMary?"). Sister Lucy was responding to the Papal Nuncio's enquiries on behalf ofPope John Paul II, regarding the Consecration of Russia. On March 21st, 1982,as well as March 19th, 1983, Sister Lucy clearly pointed out what Our Lady hadspecifically requested of the Pope and all the Catholic Bishops.

Even after March 25, 1984, it is evident from this report of Sister Lucy thatthe Consecration of Russia, according to Our Lady's command, has not beendone.

Furthermore, Pope John Paul II, after consecrating the worldon March 25,1984, himself, twice publicly stated that the Consecration of "certain peoples"awaited by Our Lady of Fatima has not been done (see The Fatima

Crusader,Issue No. 16,"Our Lady of Fatima Awaits the Bishops").

In this regard, the public needs to know the facts:

(a) that the Consecration of Russia must be done according to the command of God andOur Lady before peace can be given to the world;

(b) that despite misinformation to the contrary, the above-mentioned Consecration of Russiahas, in fact, NOT BEEN DONE;

(c) that it is part of the duty of Catholics to do what they can to see that the Bishops obeythis command of God and Our Lady;

(d)that it is very urgent that the Bishops obey soon; otherwise, all of us in North America,as well as the world over, will be either killed or enslaved by Soviet Russia.
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It is our fervent hope that many other Catholic magazines will bring thesepositive facts clearly to the public's notice. It is by bringing the full peace plan ofOur Lady of Fatima to everyone's attention that we will fulfill the obligations weall have of publishing this message from Our Lady to our brother Catholics andall mankind.

I trust that this letter, along with the various articles published in IssueNo.17of The Fatima Crusaderwhich you have already received earlier this year, aswell as a careful reading of IssuesNo. 15andNo. 16of The Fatima Crusader,will be more than enough to sufficiently answer your letter.

Thank you for complimenting our "wonderful" work. You keep up your goodwork. Thank you for prayers. I pray for you, too. Remind everyone you are ableto reach to fulfill all of Our Lady of Fatima's requests. As God has put great

resources at your disposal to do this, you have these days a most difficultcharge to fulfill. Remind as many people as you can to pray the Rosary every

day and wear the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and also remind themto pray and do all they can to get Russia Solemnly and Publicly Consecrated by

the Pope, together with all the Catholic Bishops on one specific day.

Yours sincerely in Jesus, Mary and Joseph,

With my priestly Blessing

Father Nicholas Gruner, S.T.L., S.T.D. (Cand.)

Father Gruner in India

Thanks to your generous support, Father Gruner was able to bring theInternational Fatima Rosary Crusade to India. Our Pilgrim Virgin Statueblessed by the Pope at Fatima, is seen here in the Cathedral of Madras,India, at the high altar over the tomb of St. Thomas the Apostle. The
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