Answer by Catholic Answers on 03-25-2003:
Dear Vic,
America Needs Fatima is indeed a legitimate Catholic organization. Like other such Catholic organizations, it has its enemies. Log on to its web site: "http://www.tfp.org/anf/".
Fr. Vincent Serpa, O.P.
This is from EWTN:
http://www.ewtn.com/vexperts/showresult.asp?RecNum=294238&record_bookmark=2&Forums=0&Experts=0&Days=2003&Author=&Keyword=tfp&pgnu=1&groupnum=0&ORDER_BY_TXT=ORDER+BY+ReplyDate+DESC&start_at=
This is a copy of a letter sent to Prof. Plinio:
Lima, July 24, 1961
Distinguished Professor,
The reading of your book Revolution and Counter-Revolution made a magnificent impression on me because of the courage and mastery with which you analyze the process of the Revolution and shed abundant light on the true causes of the crumbling of moral values disorienting consciences today. and also because of the vigor with which you indicate the tactic and the methods to overcome it.
I especially appreciated the second part of your book, highlighting the efficacy of Catholic doctrine and the spiritual remedies the Church possesses to combat and vanquish the forces and errors of the Revolution.
I am certain that your book has rendered an important service to the Catholic cause and that it will help gather the forces of good in order to soon solve this great contemporary problem. This is, in my opinion, the way repeatedly indicated by the present Vicar of Christ, who, with so much conviction and solicitude, has insisted on a profound renewal of Christian and sacramental life as a sure remedy for the evils afflicting the world, evils that government leaders vainly seek to solve through the precarious efficacy of weapons. technology, and purely human progress. I wish, most dear Professor, a widespread diffusion of and a well-merited response to your book from Catholic leaders wishing to join the ranks of the counter-revolutionary movement.
Please accept the testimony of my sincere admiration for your work and the expression of my deepest esteem.
Romolo Carboni
Titular Archbishop of Sidon
Apostolic Nuncio
Note: Archbishop Romolo Carboni was born in Fano, Italy, in 1911. Ordained in 1934, he was made a bishop in 1953. He was raised to the archepiscopate and appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Peru in 1959. He served as Nuncio to Italy from 1969 to 1936 and now lives in retirement in Fano.
http://tfp.org/what_we_think/rcr_book_online/rcr_letters.htm