Photo Report of Hindu Ritual at Fatima: Pictures of a Desecration

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[Polycarp IV]

Catholic Family News Special Report

Pictures of a Desecration

Photo Report of Hindu Ritual at Fatima

by John Vennari

(article appears below photos)

May 5: Portugal's SIC television announces its
coverage of an "uncommon ecumenical experience".
There will be a Hindu ritual at the Fatima Shrine.
 

Morning prayers in the Radha Krishna temple in Lisbon
 

"All the invocations of the pagans are hateful
to God because all their gods are devils"
- Saint Francis Xavier
 

 A young Hindu woman explains the importance
of their various gods
 

About 60 Hindus travel by bus to Fatima
 

Arrival at the Fatima Shrine
 

The Hindus bring a gift of flowers. For them, Our Lady
of Fatima is a manifestation of one of their gods.
 

SIC broacasting says, "This is a unique event in the
history of the Sanctuary and of devotion itself...
 

...the Hindu priest, the Shastri recites at the (Catholic)
altar the Shanti Pa, the prayer for peace."
 

The Hindu ritual — a ceremony to false gods — desecrates
the Fatima Shrine, making it necessary for the chapel
to be re-consecrated.
 

The "Hindu family of Porgutal" worshipping at the
shrine after the Hindu ceremony.
 

Shrine Rector Guerra speaks approvingly about
the Hindu worship at Fatima
 

Crossing the esplanade to meet the Bishop
and the Shrine Rector
 

Received by the Bishop of Fatima. SIC explains, "the
Hindu pilgrims are received as if they were an embassy,
an unheard of gesture...
 

...which can be understood as an invitation for other visits"
This means that the pagan desecration of Fatima
is likely to happen again.
 

The Bishop of Fatima says,
"We do not want to be fundamentalists"
 

Shrine Rector Guerra receives from the Hindus
a shawl covered with verses of the Baghwad Gita,
a "sacred book" of Hinduism whose basic message
is, all of life is an illusion.
 

The Bishop of Fatima also receives a shawl
laden with verses of pagan mythology.
 

Acknoweldgement to SIC Televisino for video footage from which these photos were extracted.

 

 

Catholic Family News has obtained a video copy of the SIC television broadcast of the Hindu ritual performed at Fatima. As reported last month, the sacrilege took place on May 5 with the blessing of Fatima Shrine Rector Guerra, and the Bishop of Leiria-Fatima, D. Sarafim de Sousa Ferreira e Silva.

SIC, a national television station in Portugal, reported on the Hindu ritual at Fatima the same day it took place. The announcer called it an “ncommon ecumenical experience.”

The broadcast shows morning prayer at the Radha Krishna temple in Lisbon. “Light and water, energy and nature, mark the rhythm of the Arati, the morning prayer,” the announcer says. “Hinduism is the oldest of the great religions. It is characterized by multiple deities, worshiped through a triple dimension of life and sacredness: the creator god, the preserver god, and the god who has the power to destroy.”

Thus the Hindus spent the morning worshiping their false gods, which are nothing more than demons. Saint Francis Xavier, the apostle to India, said of Hinduism: “All the invocations of the pagans are hateful to God because all their gods are devils.”[1]

A young Hindu woman appears on screen with statues of gods in the background. She explains, “This is god Shiva and his wife Parvati. In the center we can see god Rama, to our right his wife Sita and to our left, his brother and companion Lakshmama. Now we can see Krishna Bhagwan and his consort Radha. The deities are always accompanied by their respective consorts or wives. As a rule, when we address the deities or want to ask for their graces, we address the feminine deity, who is very important to us.”

About 60 Hindus, said the broadcast, “leave Lisbon with the chandam, the sign on their foreheads which shows the wish for good fortune in a noble task. And this is the day dedicated to the greatest of all female deities. She is called the Most Holy Mother, the goddess Devi, the deity of Nature who many Portuguese Hindus also find in Fatima.”

Another young Hindu lady explains, “As a Hindu, who believes the whole world, or rather all human beings, are members of a global family, it would be natural for me to see any manifestation of God, including Our Lady of Fatima, as a manifestation of the same God.”

Here, this young lady speaks as a true Hindu, since Hinduism regards the various false gods they worship as manifestations of “God”. Thus, they are not honoring Our Lady as the Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ, but worshiping Her as a manifestation of their pagan god.

The newscast then shows the Hindus bringing flowers to the statue of Our Lady inside the Capelinha, the little chapel built over the spot where Our Lady of Fatima appeared. The Hindu priest stands at the Catholic altar and recites a Hindu prayer. Meanwhile, the SIC announcer says, “This is a unique moment in the history of the Sanctuary and of devotion itself. The Hindu priest, the Shastri, recites at the altar the Shanti Pa, the prayer for peace.”

Pope Pius XI, in a liturgical prayer consecrating the human race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, prayed for the conversion of all who are not members of the Mystical Body. He invoked Our Lord, “be Thou King of all those who are involved with the darkness of idolatry”. [2] This idolatry is now practiced at the Fatima Shrine, desecrating the sacred site, making it necessary for the chapel to be re-consecrated.

In another clip, the Hindu priest explains that he finds a “divine energy” at Fatima. “It is an energy that permeates the whole place,” he says. “ It has the power to be present here, around us. Whenever I come here, I feel this vibration ...”

SIC then explains that the display of this group of Hindus at Fatima “is not well-accepted by all Catholics”. The camera then shifts to Fatima Shrine Rector Guerra who defends Hindu worship at the Catholic Shrine.

“It is obvious” says Rector Guerra, “that these civilizations and religions are quite different. But I think that there is a common background to all religions. There is a common background that, how can I put it, is born from the common humanity we all possess. And it is very important that we recognize this common background, because, due to the clashes of the differences, we sometimes forget our equality. These meetings give us that occasion.”

The Hindus are then welcomed by the Bishop of Leiria-Fatima in a room containing a large model of the modernistic Fatima Shrine now under construction. “This time,” says the broadcast, “the Hindu pilgrims are received as if they were an embassy; an unheard of gesture which can be understood as an invitation for other visits.” This means that the pagan desecration of the Fatima Shrine is likely to happen again and again.

The Bishop of Leiria- Fatima then says, “We don’t want to be fundamentalist, we don’t want that, but we want to be honest, sincere and want to communicate by osmosis the fruitfulness of our rituals, so that we may produce fruits. I am pleased to meet them.”

At this point, the Hindu priest places on the shoulders of the Bishop of Leiria- Fatima and Shrine Rector Guerra a shawl covered with verse of the Bhagwad Gita, one of Hinduism’s sacred books.

The report ends with a close-up of a guest book that includes the signatures of Pope John Paul II, Mother Teresa, and a Hindu high priest. It goes on to say that Hindus intend to keep Fatima “on the road map of places where they claim they can find vibrations of holiness...”

Catholic Family News has reported on the interfaith orientation at Fatima since it was launched at the interreligious Congress held at Fatima in October 2003.[4] We warned repeatedly that this type of desecration was inevitable if Catholics did not resist the new ecumenical program.

Predictably, the enablers of the “New Fatima” such as Father Robert J. Fox ridiculed our efforts and tried to dissuade Catholics from taking us seriously. Father Fox, on an April 25 EWTN broadcast, claimed that the reports about the interfaith activity at Fatima were nothing but "fabrications,” that he knows Shrine Rector Guerra personally, and that Rector Guerra would never allow such interfaith activities to take place. Less than two weeks after this EWTN broadcast, the Fatima Shrine was desecrated by pagan worship, with the blessing of Rector Guerra and the Bishop of Leiria- Fatima.

Pope Leo XIII, along with his predecessors taught “we are bound absolutely to worship God in the way which He has shown to be His will".[3] Hinduism worships false gods who are demons. It is sacrilegious for Rector Guerra and the Bishop of Fatima to permit these rituals in a Catholic sanctuary.

Pope Pius XI called it “ignominious” to place the true religion of Jesus Christ “on the same level with false religions”.[5] Pope Leo XIII likewise taught “it is contrary to reason that error and truth should have equal rights.”[6]  Thus the “equality” that Msgr. Guerra speaks of, and his notion of various religions coming from a “com mon background,” defies Catholic truth.

Rector Guerra and the Bishop of Leiria-Fatima are also guilty of grave scandal. Their actions tell these poor Hindus, who are in bondage to a heathen religion, that they are pleasing to God as they are. This is contrary to the manifest will of Christ, Who said, “No one comes to the Father but through Me.” “He who believes and is baptized will be saved, He who does not believe will be condemned.” Hindus reject Jesus Christ. They have no interest in baptism or in the truths revealed by God. Rector Guerra and the Bishop of Lierra of Fatima counsel and encourage this apostasy. By their bad example, they scandalize not only the Hindus, but others who observe their actions.

“Scandal” says Saint Thomas Aquinas, “is a word or act which gives occasion to the spiritual ruin of one’s neighbor.” Saint Leo calls the authors of scandal murderers who kill not the body but the soul. Saint Bernard says that, in speaking of sinners in general, the Scriptures hold out hope of amendment and pardon, but the Scriptures speak of those who give scandal, as persons separated from God, of whose salvation there is very little hope.[7]

Perhaps this is why we see a spiritual blindness in these men. They persist in their apostasy despite the outrage from concerned Catholics. Nonetheless, we must pray for them.

And what of the Hindus themselves? The Shastri comes to Fatima because he feels there a “divine energy,” “vibrations of holiness”. Members of all religions worship the same god and are part of the “global family”.

This is the language of paganism, not of our received Catholic tradition. "Holy vibrations” is what Hindus call Shakti, and they go to various places to seek it. They will rush to be in the presence of the Dalai Lama or Pope John Paul II or Ghandi because this gives them Darshan, the good fortune that comes from being in the sight of a holy man. Each and every one of their terms is rooted in heathen superstition, not in the truths revealed by Christ.

In short, the Hindus did not go to the Fatima Shrine to be Catholicized. Rather, they Hinduized the Fatima Shrine, folding their pagan myths and superstitions into one of Catholicism’s most sacred sites.

This is not honoring the Mother of God, but a blasphemy against Her, since there is nothing honorable in placing Our Lady on the same level as one more goddess in their pantheon of demonic deities. “What concord hath Christ with Belial?”, says Saint Paul, “or what part hath the faithful with the unbeliever?” (2 Cor. 6:15)

At the end of the visit, the Hindus presented Msgr. Guerra and the Bishop of Fatima with a shawl covered with verse of the Bhagwad Gita. This book contains a story which illustrates a central tenet of Hinduism.

Arjuna, a warrior, is on the eve of a great battle. He dreads the next day, because he knows he will have to kill his friends, relatives, teachers. Arjuna's charioteer, who turns out to be the god Krishna in disguise, tells Arjuna not to fear the coming battle because none of it is real. No one is going to die. All of it, and all of life, is illusion.

Arjuna then thrusts himself into the bloody conflict believing it to be his Dharma, his given path, to hack his friends and relatives to pieces. It is all illusion anyway. No one really dies. This is Hinduism in a nutshell. You are god, everything else is illusion.[8]

Catholics who behold the Fatima Shrine Rector and the Bishop of Fatima draped in shawls laden with verses from a pagan mythology, certainly would wish that the Hindu desecration of Fatima was an illusion, that none of it was real.

But no, it really happened. And Catholics must register their outrage to Rome and to Fatima, as they offer prayers of reparation for Catholic leaders who hand over the chapel of Our Lady of Fatima to a religion whose god is the devil.

Notes:

1. Saint Francis Xavier, James Brodrick, S.J., (New York: Wicklow Press, 1952), p. 135.

2. Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Pope Pius XI, published along with the Encyclical Quas Primas, “On the Kingship of Christ”, 1925.

3. Imortale Dei, 1885.

4. See J. Vennari: “Fatima to Become an Interfaith Shrine? An Account from One Who Was There", (CFN, December, 2003), "More News on the Fatima Interfaith Program",  (CFN, Jan., 2004), "Shrine Rector Confirms New Interfaith Orientation at Fatima", (CFN, Feb., 2004), Hindu Ritual Performed at Fatima Shrine, (CFN, May, 2004).

5. Quas Primas, 1925.

6. Libertas, 1888.

7. Quotes taken from Sermons of Saint Alphonsus Liguori, “On Scandal,” (Rockford: Tan Books, reprinted 1982), pp. 168-181.

8. For more, see “The Dharma of Deception”, Edwin Faust, Catholic Family News, November, 1998.

 

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[narses]

...this is the same Msgr. Guerra who hosted the Interfaith Congress at Fatima in October 2003. I traveled to Fatima to attend the event and reported on it in recent issues of CFN. It was a Congress that would have horrified all pre-Vatican II Popes, had any one of them walked in on it.

The first two days of the Congress contained "Catholic" speakers promoting the ecumenical agenda. On the third day — Sunday — representatives of Catholicism, the Schismatic Orthodox, Anglicanism, Hinduism, Islam and Buddhism each gave testimony of the importance of "sanctuary" within their various creeds. At the Congress:

The ecumenical theologian Father Jacques Dupuis called the defined dogma "outside the Church there is no salvation", a "horrible text" that must be rejected;
Dupuis claimed that all religions are positively willed by God and that non-Catholics do not have to convert to the one true Catholic Church for unity and salvation. He said that Catholics and non-Catholics are equal members in the "Reign of God".
Dupuis also said that the purpose of ecumenical dialogue is not to convert others to the Catholic Church, but to make "a Christian a better Christian, a Hindu a better Hindu";
Dupuis said further that the Holy Ghost is present and operative in the "sacred books" and "sacred rites" of Buddhism and Hinduism;
The Congress speakers placed all religious sanctuaries on the same level, whether they be the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, the Mecca of Islam or the Kyoto of Shintoism.
Father Arul Irudayam, Rector of the Marian Shrine in Vailankanni, India told the audience on Sunday that Hindus now perform their pagan rituals inside the Sanctuary of the Catholic Shrine.
These and other outrages elicited nothing but praise and applause from the audience, including applause from Shrine Rector Guerra, the Bishop of Leiria-Fatima, and the Apostolic Delegate of Portugal.5 (I was an eyewitness to their reaction). Cardinal Policarpo of Lisbon, and Archbishop Fitzgerald from the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, also voiced approval for the ecumenical errors spouted at the Congress.6

News also surfaced that Fatima would now become an "Interfaith Shrine," where all religions would be allowed to perform their pagan rituals. Archbishop Fitzgerald and Rector Guerra issued half-hearted denials of this. But their denials only affirmed the ecumenical and pan-religious orientation now underway at Fatima.7

Yet because of these half-hearted denials, many shallow individuals — who should know better — exclaimed that there is no danger of Fatima losing its Catholic identity because Church officials have told us that Fatima will not be an interfaith Shrine.

From http://www.fatima.org/060304rit.htm

[pro Athanasius]

The Christians in India are being Hinduized. They are having hindu type cerimonies in Catholic Churches in India. They are starting to loose their Catholic faith.
I am sure they are discriminated against and persecuted. Many however are becoming Hinduized in order to fit in.


Catholics Consider Including Sanskrit in Prayers... Nietzche said, what does not kill us makes us ... level of understanding his criticisms of Ratzinger are based ... a socio-poltical agenda, why is Teilhard de Chardin ... (This stuff on Nietzche and Teilhard was on the site.)
http://www.hindu-religion.net/showflat/cat/sanskrit/30823/2/collapsed/5/o/2

Enculturation” which is a euphemism for sycratism destroyes religious tradition when it is placed into the liturgy. We see this problem happening in India with the hinduization of the Catholic Church under the diretion of Archbishop Lourdusamy of Bangalore (later made Cardinal by John Paul II). The subversion of the Catholic faith in India is explained in Victor Kulanday’s The Paganization of the Church in India in which he warns if “the craze to pagnize isn’t given up the 21st Century will only see a hybrid form form of Christianity..perishing.” You can barely tell the diffence in some Novus Ordo parishes in that country and Hindu temples. Cornelia R. Ferreira an Indian born author residing in Canada explained this situation in “Mother Teresa ‘Beatified’ with Idolatrous Rites”. She explains that by 1969 the Catholic Bishops Conference (an organ of collegiality) in the name of enculturation incorporated twelve Hindu gestures and rituals into the Sacrifice of the Mass thus Hinduizing it. Ferreira points out the revelutionaries cleverly called “this panthiestic hodge-podge” “adapting the Indian peoples way of expressing reverence”, then she explains how Archbishop Piero Marini the Pope’s Master of Ceremonies employed during this Beatification Mass for Mother Teresa a triple arati ritual by young ladies (Marini) or seven nuns (The Tribune).
Next she describes the elaborate Hindu ritual of waving a tray of flowers, with a light in the middle, incense and the ringing of bells, accompanied by a Hindu Tamil hymn and rythmic dancing. John Cotter the son of a Brittish father and an Indian mother (his mother was Hindu) wrote “Syncretism : Imminent and Deadly Threat to Our Roman Catholic Faith” and A Study in Syncretism which is a good expose on how devastating this revolutionary movement has been we see the following on pgs 4-5.
“ In an introduction to the book The World’s Great Religions , the late Paul HUTCHINSON a distinguished Methodist minister who for many years was editor of the Christian Century magazine, said:
‘With increasing frequency comes a proposal that man-. kind’s future spiritual welfare would be insured if the major religions would recognize their essential unity of purpose and drop their differences to merge in a synthesis of the beliefs on which they can agree. Arnold Toynbee is perhaps the most influential Westerner who hopes for some such “syncretism.” “The four higher religions now alive,” he writes, “are four variations on a single theme. If all the four components of this heavenly music of the spheres could be audible on Earth simultaneously, and ~with equal clarity, to one pair of human ears, the happy hearer would find himself listening not to a discord, but to a harmony.
14."Mother Theresa ‘Beatified’ with Idolatrous Rites" by Cornelia R. Ferreira in Catholic Family News, January 2004 p.13.
13 Ibid. p. 14-15.

[narses]

Word chopping doesn't change reality.

[broadsword]

So true.

But it can fool many people, people with less discernment than you and I.

Watch out that you not get banned for your clear vision and courage. Evil always seeks to sink that which is good.

[sinkspur]

Make an innocent statement about Hindus, and get bludgeoned by the Raddie-Traddies.

That'll teach you!

[narses]

Oh, I know. The Coven has tried time and again to provoke me into losing my temper. They haven't yet.

[narses]

"There's no problem on the inside of a kid that the outside of a dog can't cure."

There's no problem on the inside of a heresy that the outside of a Modernist can't ignore, ridiclue or lie about. Your willingness to play games here rather than stand up for God and His Altar speaks volumes Deacon, just volumes.

[sinkspur]

There's no problem on the inside of a heresy that the outside of a Modernist can't ignore, ridiclue or lie about. Your willingness to play games here rather than stand up for God and His Altar speaks volumes Deacon, just volumes.

You invite me on to a thread, I say I'm not interested, then you accuse me of playing games?

You just want to fight.

Be careful. You pick on dogs, I've got two males, and they can raise their right back legs pretty high.

[narses]

No Deacon, I was hoping against hope that you'd see the TRUTH and ACT like a man. Instead you turn a blind eye. So sad.

[Polycarp IV]

Then go "understand" it on a different thread. Don't encourage him to disrupt this one. The tenets of the Hindu religion are not what this thread is about.

See my posts 42 and 45.

I posted this thread, and I pinged little jeremiah to this thread, because little jeremiah is a friend and ally and is on my ping list.

If you don't like little jeremiah participating in this thread, YOU go find another thread.

[AAABEST]

Believe it or not despite our differences here, in the long run I view you and the other person I pinged to be on "our side" as well.

You're what I classify as "Deep Catholics". Whether traditional, orthodox, conservative or whatever, Deep Catholics understand the source of their religion and are very knowledgeable and dedicated to the historical faith, even though such may manifest itself in different ways.

You may have particular problems with say the SSPX, but aside from that you're out in the world furthering a richer, more traditional and more meaningful Catholic worship.

As Paul said we have the hands, the eyes, the feet. Some even speak in tongues.

[narses]

Thank you. I fear you may flatter me, but I am a convert who studied the Faith with great care both before and since my Baptism. Is there anything more important?

[Grey Ghost II]

I would never try to aggressively convert anyone who is happy in their path to God.

God's happiness is what you should be concerned about.

[Smocker]

God help us!

[ventana]

I noticed kneelers at the Altar Rail (wall), which is nice, but can't see either the Tabernacle in any of these photos nor kneelers at the pews.

What do you call a wreckovation if it's a new building?

[Unam Sanctam]

Well, excuuuuuuse me!

[Unam Sanctam]

I do not like the sarcastic tone of your post and so choose not to answer your questions.

[sinkspur]

God's happiness is what you should be concerned about.

God's ways are not yours, GGII.

His Grace leads to discernment. The Spirit doesn't move at the point of a sword, but in the gentle breeze.

[narses]

Your choice. I've never been happy with the supercillious tone of your posts, but I've tried to be civil. Sorry if you failed to appreciate the sarcasm in the manner it was intended. You might reread your own post and ask yourself how others might view your words. Just a thought.

[narses]

In Lost Angeles they call it "The Temple of Doom", or "The Taj Mahony".