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2017 / 2018
https://fsspx.news/en/news/interview-bishop-bernard-fellay-fatima-centenary-church-crisis-18544

...Maike Hickson:What is, in your own view, the reason for the continued hesitancy of those people in the Church who could disclose, for the greater good, much more information? What do they still have to fear or to lose? Would such a disclosure not be an act of mercy toward the suffering Church in this deep crisis?

+Fellay: " I remember that Sr. Lucy, in an interview with a cardinal from India in the mid-1990s, was very afraid that the Pope would publish the Secret. She said, if she were to give the Holy Father advice, she would caution great prudence. If, for instance, the text contained something like the coming of the Antichrist or something else quite serious that would cast grave doubt on the authority of the Church, it could be a reason the same authorities are hesitant to publish this. I don’t pretend these examples are the case; I am simply speculating as to what some possible reasons might be for not releasing it. "

Never heard of this before, but just one more example of what the "Fake sister Lucy" would  spout. We all know that BVMary/ Sister Lucia wanted the secret opened by 1960 !!!

P.S.  Did the newSociety say that the Fatima Apparitions were private??? Oh yeah, just greatest miracle witnessed by 70,000 souls. !! ● • ● ○
Talk about the letter of the law that killeth. 
BTW we are the Church M ilitant!  Pray!


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Hate to be the one to break it to you, but your civil marriage was valid since you were both non-Catholics. Thus to live with this other woman, however nice she is, would be adultery.
Isn't there the Pauline/Petrine privelege for marriage, where if a person converts to the Faith and his unbaptized spouse won't convert, they can remarry a Catholic and receive the full sacrament?  It's a rare case, but it may apply to this thread.
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Dear Striving Catholic,

Thank you for sharing your story. It took a lot of courage, I'm sure.

I was going to reply with some information relating to your original post, but I can imagine that the replies to your story have thrown you into anguish and turmoil.

My advice to you now is to immediately seek the counsel of a traditional Roman Catholic priest. Let him examine your case, and tell you for certain if your previous marriage is valid.

I suggest contacting Immaculate Heart Seminary in Round Top, NY.

Send them a message via email. I find these priests very charitable.

Just Google it, and the website will come up.
A priest's opinion doesn't give you certainty as you suggest, only the Church can give you certainty with a declaration of nullity, which is at present, unfortunately, unavailable. The SSPV is so indifferentist that it doesn't even require general confessions for people converting from the Novus Ordo. It's useless to gamble on the opinion of some priest and then if one doesn't like that priest's opinion he can go in search of another fallible opinion.

Catholic principles in this case are clear-cut and anyone can apply them for himself - unbaptized non-Catholics marry validly when they seek a civil marriage, that's certain, the question is only if that's what happened and StrivingCatholic knows that for himself. In any case, to go seek another marriage a declaration of nullity would be required, which he cannot get, since there is no competent authority to provide it at present.

In short, one can and should seek advice from knowledgeable priests or laymen, however, one can't go seek certainty from a priest's opinion.

P.S. The marriage is assumed valid until proven otherwise beyond any doubt, not the other way around.
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PAUL VAUGHN

JOHN YEP

and pray for Tim Ballard who is considering Catholicism

Is Ballard the Mormon who made the recent movie with Jim Caviezel?
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Dear Striving Catholic,

Thank you for sharing your story. It took a lot of courage, I'm sure. 

I was going to reply with some information relating to your original post, but I can imagine that the replies to your story have thrown you into anguish and turmoil. 

My advice to you now is to immediately seek the counsel of a traditional Roman Catholic priest. Let him examine your case, and tell you for certain if your previous marriage is valid. 

I suggest contacting Immaculate Heart Seminary in Round Top, NY. 

Send them a message via email. I find these priests very charitable. 

Just Google it, and the website will come up. 
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Hate to be the one to break it to you, but your civil marriage was valid since you were both non-Catholics. Thus to live with this other woman, however nice she is, would be adultery.

Living in adultery prevents you from receiving the Eucharist as you will be in a perpetual state of unrepentant mortal sin.  There are those on this forum who unwittingly got into this same situation but once you know, you go.  You must separate from this new "wife" who is actually a concubine.  You may not like this truth but it has to be done.  And forget about living as "brother and sister" or the internal forum.  That's not Catholic at all.  If you stay with this woman you are condemning her to Hell for all eternity as well as yourself.  If you love her, then you will want her to get out of this sinful co-hab situation.  As a Catholic, she already knows in her heart that this is adultery.  Our Lady would never condone what you are doing.  She said many marriages are not of God.  

You won't listen to this.  I know from experience.  But you will pay a dear price...like many of us, you must remain single and celibate the rest of your life.
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Great advice.  If anyone received a superabundance of graces, it was Judas, who spent nearly 3 years in close proximity with Our Lord Himself ... and yet he too, in the end, exercised his free will to reject them all.

In terms of "wielding" God (others have likened using God as a vending machine), I've always remembered the story told by an early Church Father.  So, there was a man fishing on a lake, and at one point he catches something, which must have been very substantial due to the resistance on the line.  So he pulls with all his might for a long time, and finally sees his catch drawing closer, eventually realizing that his line was caught on a large, immovable boulder, and while he thought he was reeling it in closer to the boat, the entire time he was actually pulling the boat toward the boulder.  That is what prayer is like.  We don't "reel in" God, but merely draw ourselves closer to Him.  Even if OP were to pray, fast, do penance hard enough to "win" the conversion of this soul, it was God Who inspired him and gave him the graces to do it in the first place, i.e. it's always God and only God who converts.  God desires the conversion of this individual more than OP does, and more than the individual does, infinitely more.  This doesn't mean to be complacement, so you should do everything you can, but always realizing that it's God insipiring you and giving you the grace to do it.  God's economy of grace can also be likened to young children who have no way to earn money, can't get jobs, etc.  But the parents give the children an allowance.  These children then save their money for a long time and buy the parents a gift.  Ultimately, the parents were the source of the money, and in a way financed this gift, but what is moving about the gift is the generosity of the children in saving the money for their parents rather than spending it on themselves.  Any graces that may funnel through us to others originate with God in the first place.
Ladislaus, this is beautiful. Thank you for sharing this.

If you are sincere in your prayers God will surely answer them, but maybe not in the way you want them to be answered. Remember, He will always do things in the most perfect way possible.
Quo vadis Domine, thank you. These are words to remember.
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ugh...this is so...disappointing... first I was slammed by things that contradicts with what I have learnt and thought I knew...then to find out the Church is so divided and I cannot trust anything... and now this part about my past marriage...:'(

Yes, unfortunately, things are a mess since Vatican II, and you're not alone in struggling with it.  Standards that the Church had in place for millennia were suddenly thrown out the window.  It can be difficult to navigate, but pray the Rosary faithfully, ask Our Lady for help in discerning God's will, and you'll invariably get to where you need to be.  This is precisely why some of us are Traditional Catholics.  Nefarious groups have been (by their own admission) attempting to infiltrate the Church for centuries, and by 1958 they finally succeeded at the top.  This is why Our Lady left the Third Secret and why Sister Lucia stated that its meaning would be "clearer" when nearing 1960.  This is a great apostasy, a falling away, that was predicted even in Sacred Scripture before the final arrival of the "Man of Sin".  Cardinal Ciappi, who read the secret, stated that it was about an apostasy that would "begin at the top".  This was all foretold for the sake of the elect, so that they wouldn't falter and lose faith in the Church, and God allowed it as a necessary sifting.  Just stay devoted to Our Lady's Rosary, which she said would be the last remedy available to mankind, and she'll take care of you and guide you.
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ugh...this is so...disappointing... first I was slammed by things that contradicts with what I have learnt and thought I knew...then to find out the Church is so divided and I cannot trust anything... and now this part about my past marriage...:'(
Yes, things are very serious unfortunately. The times are such that many of us had to break off relationships and be persecuted for the faith.

God has mercifully brought you to where you are now, so close to the Truth, only a few more steps to take, although maybe the hardest of all.

Trust in God's Providence, pray the rosary for discernment and all will be well!
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ugh...this is so...disappointing... first I was slammed by things that contradicts with what I have learnt and thought I knew...then to find out the Church is so divided and I cannot trust anything... and now this part about my past marriage...:'(
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