Several articles published in the Italian press on Thursday claimed that the cloistered nun sent such a letter and that the Holy See did not totally reveal the content of the “third secret” of Fatima.
Bishop Serafim de Sousa Ferreira e Silva of the Diocese Leiria-Fatima confirmed in statements to the press that Sister Lucia “has not sent any letter to John Paul II expressing fear for the Pope´s life.”
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said Thursday that the rumors about this alleged letter are the continuation of “an old polemic fed by certain people of dubious credibility,” for the purpose of “destabilizing the internal equilibrium of the Roman Curia and of troubling the people of God.”
