Greetings. I have read this article concerning Bertone vs Socci. It is an analysis/report of the quotes/statements by Bertone from Bertone’s book (The Last Visionary of Fatima) in response to a book by Socci (The Fourth Secret of Fatima): (for citations consult either these books or consult the Remnant Newspaper online and contact the author)
** Bertone vs. Socci **
Christopher A. Ferrara
REMNANT COLUMNIST, New Jersey
Cardinal Bertone attempts an answer to Antonio Socci’s explosive book accusing the Vatican of covering up the Third Secret of Fatima, but the Cardinal only succeeds in embarrassing himself and confirming the suspicions of the faithful.
. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican Secretary of State, has published a small book, The Last Visionary of Fatima, which attacks the Italian intellectual Antonio Socci for having concluded in his own book, The Fourth Secret of Fatima, that the Vatican is concealing a text of the Third Secret. Socci’s conclusion brings to a rolling boil the long-simmering conviction among the faithful that, as Mother Angelica put it on her national television show in 2001, “we didn’t get the whole thing.”
Socci is a highly respected mainstream Catholic commentator who has conducted press conferences for both Bertone and the former Cardinal Ratzinger. Bertone had no choice but to attempt an answer…
But, as
Socci shows in his response to Bertone’s book in the Italian newspaper Libero, Bertone’s effort is a major embarrassment to him and to the Vatican—a disaster, in fact, because it leaves untouched the entire case in support of the thesis that the Vatican is hiding part of the Secret, while*
raising still more doubts about Bertone’s credibility.* At the same time, Bertone demeans his high office by recklessly hurling invective at Socci, pronouncing his contentions “ravings,” calling him a deliberate liar (“mendace”), and even accusing him of the tactics of Freemasonry, which has to be one of the most ironic remarks of the post-conciliar epoch. *
Bertone acts like a desperate, wounded man instead of the Vatican Secretary of State…*
…As Socci observes in his reply,
Bertone’s book not only fails to answer any of the points he raised in The Fourth Secret of Fatima, but also “poses further problems. I was even embarrassed to read a thing so bungled and self-wounding.”
For example, in order to bolster the Vatican party line that the
Message of Fatima (and thus the Third Secret) belongs to the past because Russia has already “converted,” Bertone “credits the rumor that Gorbachev, in the historic visit to Pope Wojtyla of December 1, 1989, ‘made a mea culpa’ before the Pope”—a myth that was “officially denied by the Vatican Press Office on March 2, 1998.”……
IMPORTANT:
Actually these words were taken from Cardinal Bertone’s OWN book,
The Last Visionary of Fatima as can be viewed from this excerpt of the article below:
Another self-inflicted wound is
Bertone’s statement that “Sister Lucy never worked with a computer.” Here Bertone forgets that, when it was expedient for him to do so, he asserted precisely the opposite: that Sister Lucy “even used a computer” in 1989—a claim that, as Socci notes, “served to accredit certain letters that Sister Lucy had not written in her own hand and which contradicted everything she had said before on the consecration of Russia.” Bertone has thus undermined all claims that Sister Lucy was the author of those letters.
Special Note: Bertone has not denied making the quotes in his own book (obvious?) nor his quotes in Socci’s book (
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Note: For clarification and cited references consult the following books/article:
*The Last Visionary of Fatima *by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican Secretary of State, and
The Fourth Secret of Fatima by the renowned Italian intellectual Antonio Socci. (also the author of this article Christopher A. Ferrara Remnant Columnist)
I hope this helps with your confusion, GOD bless.
