By Maike Hickson, LifeSiteNews, Oct 7, 2024
Dr. Maike Hickson was born and raised in Germany. She holds a PhD from the University of Hannover, Germany, after having written in Switzerland her doctoral dissertation on the history of Swiss intellectuals before and during World War II. She now lives in the U.S. and is the widow of Dr. Robert Hickson, with whom she was blessed with two beautiful children.
The importance of Our Lady of Fatima’s warnings and the Third Secret cannot be stressed enough. German priest Father Frank Unterhalt reminds the faithful of that in a recent article on St. Padre Pio, his charism, and his vision of the Third Secret.
(LifeSiteNews) — The following text is written by Father Frank Unterhalt, a priest of the Archdiocese of Paderborn, Germany. He is the speaker of Communio Veritatis, a group of priests in that diocese who have continuously raised their voice of opposition against the changes coming out of Rome. LifeSite has published multiple interventions of this group under Fr. Unterhalt’s leadership.
Unterhalt, in a recent new intervention, discusses the life of Padre Pio, his charism, as well as his own vision that he had of the Third Secret of Fatima. LifeSite is pleased to publish here, with Unterhalt’s permission, a translation of his new text.
Unterhalt reminds his readers that in 2017 José María Zavala published a book on the Third Secret of Fatima, in which he revealed that Padre Pio himself, around 1960, had once spoken about it to Rome’s chief exorcist, Father Gabriele Amorth. For the sake of those who are not yet aware of Zavala’s conversation with Fr. Amorth, let us consider here a key passage before we go to Unterhalt’s own new essay: …