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Penance, penacne, penance.November 14, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you're wondering what all the fuss over Fatima is all about, than this book is for you. I had often heard people talk about Fatima but didn't know why people had such a devotion to it. This book showed me the beauty and mystery surrounding Fatima. Most of it is in a question and answer interview form with Cardinal Bertone, who met with Sister Lucia and was heavily involved in all the Fatima business. It tells the story of Fatima from the beginning with the three peasant children, the apparitions, the three secrets and how different popes handled it etc. This is all private revelation but never before (according to the book) has a pope headed a request that was made in a private revelation (consecrating Russia to Mary's Immaculate Heart.)
This was an uplifting book which gives a lot of hope for our troubled times now. The world now offends God just as much as it did back then, and this book encourages a real devotion to Our Lady to ask our Lord to have mercy on us.
Manipulated imaginationOctober 17, 2008 0 out of 6 found this review helpful
Imagination and subjectivity under a Catholic guide, this is the core of this book. Poor document as History, because the distortion toward what was described by Lucia dos Santos in the first original report made in 1917: a very different "entity" description was then reported; not that one that inspired the Virgin Mary statue today in the Fatima shrine. A fatal lack that suffers all this kind of apologetic books, with the bless of the Catholic marian-hiperdulians. The Truth about this kind of religious experience is very different of they think: the human being "saw" NOT with only his eyes but essentially with his education within his belief system. Is that so difficult to understand ? Why this obsession with more and more secrets, ever not revealed ? Its a classic answer of all the messianic expectations.
Cover is nice but...August 2, 2008 4 out of 10 found this review helpful
First of all, the English version of Bertone's book (The Last Secret of Fatima) has a mistranslated title! The Italian original reads "L'ultima veggente di Fatima" which can be translated as "The Last Seer of Fatima." "Veggente" does not mean "secret," but "segreto" does.
As for the Third Secret controversy, only one chapter in the whole book is dedicated to it (a mere 9 pages). Unfortunately, his Imminence Cardinal Bertone, continues to ignore and casually dismiss the substantial evidence in favor of (really undeniable) a separate text which is part of the Third Secret that has not been published. If you want all the facts about this issue read Christopher Ferrara's "The Secret Still Hidden," for he analyzes this book, as well as other public testimony from the Cardinal on this subject, and ultimately, shows how Bertone fails to prove his case.
VERY HAPPYJune 29, 2008 2 out of 13 found this review helpful
VERY HAPPY WITH THIS ORDER. IT WAS THE BEST PRICE I COULD FIND AND CAME IN THE MAIL QUICK.
