By Jules Gomes, Church Militant - Speaking to Church Militant, eminent Italian historian Professor Roberto de Mattei described the bishop of Fatima's words as "scandalous," explaining that "it contradicts not only the words of Our Lady of Fatima, who says that God is going to chastise the world by means of war, hunger and persecutions of the Church and the Holy Father, but the teaching of Sacred Scripture, and the words of previous popes and saints."