Vatican II was not the greatest part of the chastisement described by Our Lady...
Completely FALSE. Those who read the secret spoke about it being primarily about the faith, a crisis of the faith that begins at the top. Sister Lucy stated that the Third Secret needed to be revealed by 1960 because it would become much clearer then. Hmmm. What happened right around 1960?
Nothing became clear about Vatican II until 1965 at the earliest, AFTER the council, and another ten years for it to sink in for what it was.
What was clearer in 1960 was the progress Communism was making in the world, and even moving to Catholic St America by way of Cuba. By then, with 66 countries then communist, including China, billions of souls were prevented from even knowing the Catholic faith.
As for the third Secret being about faith, what else did anybody think the Third Secret was about? Had Mary of Fatima forgotten about the unknown light that God produced to warn of the attack on faith of Communism? I do not recall any unknown light before Vatican II. What was the Russian Revolution about if not the faith.
We know the Freemasons, the same guys that organised the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution had infiltrated the Church long before Fatima. Ever hear of Cardinal Rampola? Ever read the ‘Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita' which speaks of working for a generation that will rejoice in having a pope ‘according to our wants’ and of a clergy who will ‘march under our banner in the belief always that they march under the banner of the Apostolic Keys.’
(The secret papers of the Alta Vendita (written in the early 1800s), highest lodge of the Italian secret society, the Carbonari, acquired by Pope Gregory XVI and, on the orders of Pope Pius IX and Pope Leo XIII, was published by Cretineau-Joly in his work The Roman Church and Revolution, reprinted in 1885 and many times since.) Now what is secret about a plan that was known 100 years earlier? Did Our Lady of La Salette not say Rome would become the seat of the antichrist?
Fatima was about the loss of faith in the world. Thus it included everything that causes this loss. The Third Secret could not have been anything but a warning that things were about to get far worse, which they did.
Where I live in Ireland, the greatest loss of faith came as a result of scandals by priests and Bishops, not Vatican II. When they became public and the fact that bishops covered up and moved priests elsewhere where they continuesd their attacks on young boys, that caused more people to reject the Church than any modernism that came out of Vatican II. I know, I lived through it, I heard them, I hear them, endlessly. It is also a known fact that Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ deliberately used ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs to infiltrate the priesthood knowing what would happen.