Before I comment on the text of this book that was published 5 years ago and, yet, has been so well hidden from public view, I would like to just make some general comments concerning my impressions of the text. In this regard, I find myself extremely troubled and saddened. These two men, who I have spent decades admiring for one aspect or another of their work, have proven, in this exchange of letters, to be both imprudent and compromised in the extreme. From the text, made up of Dr. Wolfgang Smith's letters to Fr. Malachi Martin and the, subsequent responses from Fr. Martin, we are burdened by a terrible thought. That two famous and notable men, so highly prized for their achievements, intellectual acumen, and great personalities, have wandered into the intellectual territory of the enemy. This is a hard saying, but it is clearly true. In this text, and other publications and works that we have mentioned on this blog, Dr. Wolfgang Smith has fully embraced the esotericism of the
The evidence keeps mounting. It's interesting that this book, which was written by an impostor was also “authorized” by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, headed by Cardinal Josef Ratzinger; was copyrighted by the Coimbra Convent and the Fatima Shrine; and that the preliminary note to this book was written by the (former) bishop of Leiria-Fatima, Serafim de Sousa Ferreira e Silva.
ReplyDeleteWhy did the the Fatima Center do absolutely nothing to help Dr. Chojnowski spread the whole truth about Fatima? We've passed the point, a long time ago, where they should've been involved, especially in such an epoch-making event.