and stressed to me not to believe the other false booklets in circulation. The fact there there are multiple "versions" of what Our Lady said suggests to me some kind of coverup operation.
How many Traditional Catholics know this? I would wager "only a handful", based on my experience. And how many Trad Catholics have done any research into which published accounts are true and which are fake/embellished? Do we just go with the one(s) that suit our opinions and worldview the best? I'm asking an honest question here. We should be after the truth, not validation of our existing opinions or positions. If the truth happens to validate us, then "great".
In conclusion, the preceding paragraph describes why I started these couple threads on La Salette. I discovered by accident a "competing" account of La Salette, and was totally unprepared for it, since no one even told me, "Oh, there are lots of fake versions of La Salette floating around..."
But it's more than that --
even if Our Lady did say, "Rome will lose the Faith and become the seat of the Antichrist" how many think that is being fulfilled today -- or has been fulfilled? Anyone who thinks so DOES NOT UNDERSTAND the La Salette prophecy: otherwise they must believe that Pope Francis is the Antichrist, and that he is sitting in the Temple, giving himself out as a god, working demonic miracles. Needless to say, anyone holding such a belief is in objective error.So even when La Salette isn't being co-opted by completely fake prophecies, Trads of good will are distorting and misunderstanding the true prophecies in it!
I'm familiar with Fatima, Lourdes, etc. and none of those have controversy or lots of fakes. With Fatima, you just have the ridiculous "Third Secret" released by the Conciliar Church recently, which causes ZERO confusion for Trads. In other words, Fatima is simple. La Salette doesn't seem to be. It seems to be more of a minefield.