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Fatima Apparitions' Sole Survivor Rejects Recent Prophecies imputed To Her (N.C.W.C. News Service) COIMBRA, Portugal — The sole survivor of the 1917 Fatima apparitions has rejected as “in exact” and “regrettable” recent predictions attributed to her. The rejection to these so- called prophecies was made by Sister Lucia, now a Carmelite nun in Coimbra, through a for mal statement issued by t h e chancery office of the Coim bra diocese. (The prophecies were alleged ly made to Father Augustin Fuentes of Veracruz, Mexcio, in an interview he had with Sister Lucy in December, 1957. Wide circulation has been given to the priest’s report of the inter view. (In that report Sister Lucy was quoted as having said that “God is going to chastise the BEST WISHES KENNEDY'S, Inc. Prescription REXALL Druggists FREE DELIVERY Phone UN. 5-3401 Gastonia, N. C. BEST WISHES HARRISON & SONS HAIRY Route 3 Gastonia, N. C. Brumley Printing Co. Phone UN. 5-4912 — Box 944 175 East Franklin Avenue GASTONIA, N. C. 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News Service disclosed that Father Fuentes is not the postulator for Portu gal for the causes of Francisco and Jacinta. The postulator there is Auxiliary Bishon Man uel de Jesus Pereira of Coim bra.) The chancery office of the Coimbra diocese said Sister Lucy gave the following an swer to questions put to her by the diocesan authorities: “Father Fuentes spoke tj> me, as he is the postulator for the beatification causes of the ser vants of God Jacinta and Fran cisco Marto. We dealt only with things related to this point, so that everything else to which he refers is inexact or untrue, which is regrettable. I do not understand what good can come to souls by things which are not founded on God, who is the Truth. “I know nothing nor can I say anything about such chas tisements, which have been falsely attributed to me.” The chancery statement also said that since February, 1955, Sister Lucia has said nothing about the Fatima apparitions, and thus has not authorized anyone to make public any thing on this subject. A Voz (The Voice), Catholic daily newspaper in Lisbon, whicn had published a story on Father Fuentes, report of his in terview with Sister Lucy, said it regretted giving its readers cause for alarm. The newspaper stressed that the message of Fa tima gives cause for hope. The story of the Fatima ap- WINGS Kodak - Hallmark Cards - Records “CLIFF” HUMPHRIES JAckson 4-6322 12 Edgewood Ave., N. E. Atlanta, Ga. CITY PAINT STORE Wholesale ® Retail © Industrial Paint ® Wallpaper ® Lacquers PHONE UN. 7-6345 260 WEST MAIN GASTONIA, NORTH CAROLINA MORRIS GLASS CO. 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This is all the more reprehensible when such an attack comes through a mass media of enter tainment which in our American society is devoid of reason able safeguards for the young and impressionable.” EDITED BY EILEEN HALL 3087 Old Jonesboro Road, Hapeville, Georgia paritions is as follows: The Blessed Virgin appeared six times in 1917 to Lucia Abo- bora and Francisco and Jacinta Marto, three children who herd ed sheep in the fields near Fa tima and Aljustrel. She gave them three secrets. In 1927 Sister Lucia was al lowed to reveal the first two: —The children were given a terrifying vision of hell. —The Blessed Virgin gave them a mandate to establish de votion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and she prophesied the punishment to be meted out to mankind if her mandate were not fulfilled. The punishment she foretold was that Russia would spread her errors throughout the world, promoting wars and persecut ing the Church; the good would be martyred; the Holy Father would have much to suffer; and various nations would be an nihilated. When Sister Lucia was seri ously ill in 1939, she said she obtained permission from the Blessed Virgin to write out the third secret and to seal it in an envelope marked “Not to be opened until 1960.” The third secret has been a subject of speculation since that time, some of it resulting in Archabbot Strittinatter Re-Elected LATROBE, Pa., (NC)—Arch- abbot Denis O. Strittmatter, O.S.B., of St. Vincent Archab bey here was reelected presi dent of the American-Cassinese Congregation of the Benedictine Order at the congregation’s 33rd general chapter. Abbots, priors and delegates from 17 abbeys attended. St. Vincent’s is the mother abbey of the community in America. Elected to the Abbot Presi dent’s council were Abbot Cuthbert McDonald, O.S.B., of St. Benedict Abbey, Atchinson, Kan., and Abbot Theodore Ko- jis, O.S.B., of St. Andrew Ab bey, Cleveland, Ohio. false reoprts. In 1956 Sister Lu cia denied saying that 95 per cent of humanity would perish in a world war, that England and Russia would suffer most, and that Lisbon would be de stroyed. IN A RUT Patience may get the credit, but too often the man who ap pears to be waiting is merely frozen in his tracks. Each issue of this Book Page is confided io ihe paironage of Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces, with ihe hope ihai every read er and every contributor may be specially favored by her and her Divine Son. THE NUN'S STORY “Quite obviously,” says The Catholic Courier Journal, of Ro chester, “the nuns should be ex pected to know best whether their story is properly told or not. They know it from person al experience, so their opinion deserves a careful hearing!” Sister Mary Augustine, S.M.S.M., editor of~ MARIST MISSIONS, whose opinion of Kathryn Hulme’s controversial book we printed here, takes is sue with a symposium recently featured by the Catholic press in which the author was invited to explain how much of her story was fiction, how much fact. “The editors knew this al ready,” Sister Mary Augustine says, “since they had been sup plied the 42-page document of actual facts and archive facts don’t lie. The existence of these facts was not even mentioned despite specific opposing claims made by the author . . . “The ‘objectivity’ of the sym posium can make the Madison Avenue pros sit back in admi ration — two columns of dis sent sandwiched in between three pages of (1) the author’s good intentions and personal views, (2) the film director’s ‘major emotional experience’ and (3) the lay film critic’s blithe, bland assurance, which latter character is given the last word, writing off the well- formulated dispassionate views expressed by the three Sisters and all dissenting opinions . . . “But the urbane film critic, who clearly regards all Sis ters’ fears as just so much bird brained clucking over one of their number having jumped the fence, herself gives rise to a fear of a different sort when she hails the film as pointing up the ‘conflict between old Rules and new obligations.’ challenging the Sisters to change their habits as well as their Habits. She even chides them for so stupidly missing the point in not recognizing the ‘laurel-wreath’ offered them in film and book! As if any Sister would value such laurels fabri cated for fallacies. Expert Tuning—All Makes POLLARD PIANO TUNERS JA. 4-2548 “Pastors, priests in vocation work, and Sisters en masse are not missing the point, but see ing it very clearly. They recog nize that the basic conflict is not that of nun vs. nurse, nor that of zeal vs. the rigid rule. Rather they see the conflict as being in the mistaken idea of self-perfection in a dedicated life and of the means- of acquir ing it . , . “Keenly aware of human drives, they recognize the car ry-over impact of this fiction presented as fact, especially on parents, so many of whom al ready are loth to consider re ligious life for their children . . . The point is not what the author intended, nor how rev erently Hollywood approached it, nor how moving the per formance or artistic its excel lence — morally, philosophical ly or theologically, there’s a principle sensed by even the simplest nun, and it is this: no combination of fallacies of false hood, however sincerely con ceived, sentimentally compiled, sympathetically enacted, or widely aclaimed, can produce lasting good results. It’s as sim ple as that.” NINE SERMONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE ON THE PSALMS, Kenedy, $3.50. (Reviewed by Flannery O'Connor Since the American Catholic seldom hears a sermon on any part of the Old Testament, this translation by Father Edmund Hill of nine sermons of St. Augustine on the psalms should come as a welcome luxury. Un fortunately the sermons have been rendered, in a very free translation, into a prose which is determinedly folksy. St. Augustine, after stating a point, is made to say, “Got it?” Those who can take this, can take any thing. 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