I cannot stress enough the healthy thinking of Cardinal Arinze.
Vames, thank you for your (name removed by moderator)ut from Cardinal Arinze.
I couldn’t make out everything he said since his pronunciation at times was difficult for me to follow. However he says pretty much what has been pointed out about private apparations.
One thing he said was that nothing new in revelation is ever presented in a private revelation because the church has defined that all revelation has been given that is going to be given with the death of the last apostle. And then he said that therefore the apparations will not present any new information. I didn’t quote him exactly but close.
If he means by no “new” information, revelation, ok. If he means by no “new” information, no information, then not ok. What information Mary gave at Fatima was about atheistic communism and what would happen to the world if it was left unchecked. Also about a second war. Mary also advocated prayer to stop these evil world wide forces from over running the world.
It sounds very much like the story told of Nineveh in the old testiment, where Jona the prophet was told to go and preach repentance to the people. And God’s plan for Nineveh was changed because they did do penance for sin. Mary to me sounds very much like this good prophet, who warned the people to avoid terrible suffering of war and destruction.
To me that sounds like a very good thing of Mary to do. To help her children avoid suffering. So this apparition did contain new information to guide us and to encourage us in our prayers.
There are also other things as well that came from Fatima and still come from Fatima, but that is for another time.
Just some thoughts
