Yeti, you raise some good questions.  I will read the articles posted, which have similar questions as yours.

My first thought was, Sr Lucy just wrote a 2nd edition of the 3rd Secret and gave it to someone to mail, later, at a certain time.  The 3rd Secret was not long; Sr Lucy probably had it memorized.  Or...Our Lady appeared to Sr Lucy in the 80s and said, "Here's a 3rd Secret, version 2.  Have your sister/brother mail this to person A if x, y or z doesn't happen."

Guimaraes thinks the text was tampered with by transposing some of the words with the help of photoshop, and he made some minor changes to what it says, but this is substantially accurate.

A few observations.

1. This text mentions nothing about a council, which everyone thought the text would include. Indeed, it says little about what this evil pope will actually do. Guimaraes thinks the docuмent actually says the pope was telling people to praise the devil, but that's not all that much more informative.

Atila Guimaraes is of course, fluent in Portuguese, so he had an advantage in spotting the incorrect grammar in the Message.
He thought the message was a remnant of the original message, but it had been changed via a photostatic copy using manual scissors cut & paste technique.

2. The message is nearly useless. The first part says basically that an evil pope will walk into an ugly church. That's it?

Atila thought the message was horrific and understandable by any Catholic child, the Holy Father worshipping the devil.
Who could imagine it and what would it mean for the world?

3. Actually the message is implicitly sedevacantist, in that it says the person is an "individual who I describe as the 'holy Father' ". This is a strange way to describe the pope.

TIA is staunchly anti-sede-vacantist, so they wouldn't promote this interpretation.



Anyone have any thoughts on this bizarre story?

Well, reference to the "Kingdom" of Wojtyla actually lines up with the Dimond Brothers interpretation of the Popes being the kings referred to in the book of Revelation.

When was this text originally discovered?  Allegedly written in 1944, it would be interesting to mention JP2.

Wasn't the "church" built in Fatima some kind of Modernist abomination anyway?

Hail Holy Queen, blessed Virgin of Fatima, Lady of the Immaculate Heart, refuge and path that guides to God! Pilgrim of the Light that we receive from your hands, I thank God the Father that, at all times and places, acts in human history; pilgrim of the Peace that you announce here, I praise Christ, our peace, and for the world I ask for concord among all peoples; pilgrim of the Hope which the Spirit encourages, I want to be prophet and messenger so as to wash the feet of all at the same table that unites us.

Hail Mother of Mercy, Lady of the white robe! At this place where one hundred years ago you showed all the designs of our God's mercy, I look upon your robe of light and, as bishop dressed in white [como bispo vestido de branco], I remember all those who, robed in baptismal white, want to live in God and pray the mysteries of Christ to attain peace.

...the Angel cried out in a loud voice: ‘Penance, Penance, Penance!'. And we saw in an immense light that is God: ‘something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it' a Bishop dressed in White ‘we had the impression that it was the Holy Father'. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions. Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God.

"But I will die for you and to your glory, and rise again from death; and so I will deliver my people from Hell, that you may live gloriously with me in my kingdom, as that deceiver [Jesus] pretended He had done before." And he [Antichrist] will tell his beloved ones to run him through with a sword and wrap him in  a clean shroud, until the day of his resurrection. And he will delude them into thinking they are killing him, and so they will fulfill his commands. Then he will pretend to rise again, and bring out a writing as if for the salvation of souls, which is really a dire curse. And he will give this to people for a sign and command them to adore him. And if any person of faith refuses for love of My name, he will kill that person in great suffering and torture. And thus all who see and hear this will be struck with great wonder and doubtful amazement, as My beloved John shows... (Scivias, Book III, Vision 11, Section 31)

For so too will he [Antichrist] pretend to die, as if to redeem his people by his death, and to raise himself up again to return to life. He will also have an inscription written upon the foreheads of his followers, through which to introduce into the every evil, as too the ancient serpent, after deceiving humankind, kept them captive by stoking them with lust. Through that scripture he will inspire them by magical craft to oppose baptism and the Christian name, so that they will not desire to leave him, and all will style themselves after him, just as Christians are named after Christ. (The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation, Volume 18. St. Hildegard Von Bingen, The Book of Divine Works. Pages 469, Part III, Vision 5, Chapter 31).

Many will agree that the text of the Third Secret released by the Vatican in 2000 is fake.

But we need to understand why they faked it and how they plan to use it in the future.

The handwriting proves that the TIA Third Secret was written by the same hand as known texts of the real Sister Lucia. What other "proof" is needed that the text existed before 2004?

Consider the source. Atila Guimarães has a shady past and has never disavowed being a "slave" to TFP cult-leader Plinio de Oliveria. 

One of our readers from Portugal sent us the facsimile of a handwritten text that could be the text of the Third Secret of Fatima.

This unsigned text supposedly was written by Sister Lucy in her Convent of Tuy on September 1, 1944 or April 1, 1944 - it is not clear whether the number indicating the month is 9 or 4. A fingerprint of Sister Lucy was placed on the bottom of the page as a guarantee of its authenticity. Some unidentified person who had access to this docuмent released a photo of it very recently.

We are posting this facsimile below for the perusal of TIA readers. It is followed by a typed text in Portuguese and our English translation of it.

We do not assert that this is undoubtedly the true Third Secret. We post it as an invitation for our readers to discuss it and seek the opinion of experts in order to find whether this docuмent is authentic or not.

Sadly, there is a hypothesis that should not be excluded: If the date is April 1, then some priest or even bishop might be playing an April Fools' joke, spreading an adulterated text to amuse himself. This would be a sin against the Second Commandement, we believe, since it would be taking the name of God's Blessed Mother in vain. But, in these times of post-conciliar lack of seriousness, TIA has already experienced something of this kind (click here).