"(I wasn't there.) Were you at Fatima? You wanna talk GOOFY??"
No, I wasn't there, either. Were you there Brother Elsie? (You seem to talk about it a lot.)
Let me explain something again to you, Elsie, which many of your posts seem to indicate that you don't quite understand yet. "Fatima" involved a private revelation, and Catholics are not obligated to believe in ANY private revelations (including the so-called "Marian" ones, or those involving any other saints), any more than YOU are obligated to, Elsie, and, the truth is, many Catholics don't. (Again, here's one of many online articles that explain that, if you really have any interest in learning the truth, rather than just spouting a bunch of repetitive, phony, Church-bashing nonsense.)
"Are Catholics obliged to believe in Marian apparitions?" - Karl Keating
From time to time, the Church just examines the widespread claims of certain people, who claimed to have received private revelations, just to see if anything they say conflicts with any of the teachings of the Church or not. If there is no such conflict, the Church ONLY goes so far to say that a person is permitted to contemplate those private revelations in their private devotions to God, if they find them helpful, but the Church makes absolutely no claims whatsoever about their veracity, and they in no way take the place of the general, "public" revelations which are fully accepted by the Church, such as the Old Testament and the New Testament.
Now, (speaking of "goofy"), your side of the spectrum also has more than its fair share of goofy too! :-)
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Enjoy!
(Now I gotta run, so, toodaloo!)