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Right here;Then where is the chorus of orthodox Catholics refuting the article’s events? I don’t see Father Fox denying it, either.
From “In Brief” Lay Witness magazine, p.19
All Religions at Fatima?
see communiqué below
March 04
A few months ago, some news sources unsympathetic to the Vatican claimed that they had information about a supposed “interfaith shrine” at Fatima, the site of Our Lady’s 1917 apparitions (see pp. 46-47). The information originally surfaced in the weekly Portugal News, an English-language paper in Algarve, Portugal. The paper published an article that took some of the rector’s statements out of context and painted a questionable picture of the future shrine at Fatima, strongly suggesting that Fatima was compromising its Catholic identity.
Subsequent reports based on this erroneous information claimed that “at the inspiration of delegates from the U.N. and from the Vatican and also according to statements from the Rector of the Shrine, Fatima ‘is to be developed into a center where all the religions of the world will gather to pay homage to their gods.’” CUF’s information specialists received a number of inquiries about this alleged “interfaith shrine” and wrote directly to Fr. Luciano Guerra, the rector of the shrine at Fatima. Fr. Guerra eventually sent a note stating that the rectory in Fatima had published a communiqué on its website that addressed the many inquiries they had received regarding the shrine. Fr. Guerra called the original report “very tendentious” and provided a link to a thorough explanation of the situation.
The communiqué from the shrine answers the erroneous reports and clarifies the plans for the shrine. It states that: “The worship space which, God willing, will soon start to be built—and which the journalist claims will be similar to a stadium—in fact will be a church with capacity to seat 9,000 people and will be marked exclusively for Catholic worship.”