SunStar
+ March 16, 2021 THERE has been so much controversy on the supposed third secret of Fatima from that 1917 Marian apparition in Portugal when about 70,000 people, including atheists, witnessed the stupendous miracle of the dancing sun.
This, despite the fact that in 2001, the Vatican had released the alleged full text of the third secret with a 40-page commentary by then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later to become Pope Benedict XVI) and an introduction by Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone.
The document was released through the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, of which Ratzinger and Archbishop Bertone were prefect and secretary, respectively.
The document noted that Pope John XXIII read the third secret in August 1959, but decided not to publicize it. Pope Paul VI made the same decision in March 1965.