Father Gruner has angered certain powerful officials by insisting that the Collegial Consecration of Russia, requested by Our Lady of Fatima as the pre-requisite for World Peace, has not yet been carried out as She requested, and also that the Third Secret has not been revealed in its entirety.
From time to time you will find the statement that Fr Gruner, organiser of The Our Lady of Fatima Apostolate (http://www.fatima.org/) has been suspended by the Vatican. For example:
Father Nicolas Gruner Suspended
By Catholic Insight
Issue: December 2001
http://catholicinsight.com/online/church/ci_gruner.shtml
Vatican- The Vatican Congregation for the Clergy has published a "reminder" that Father Nicholas Gruner, 55, Canadian leader of the International Fatima Rosary Crusade, was suspended from priestly ministry in 1996 and does not have ecclesiastical approval for his activities, such as his plan for an international conference for Peace in the World to be held in Rome October 7-13.
"The Canadian priest has organized such conferences in the past," Catholic World News (CWN) continues, "often attracting priests and bishops who have apparently been unaware of the conflicts between the International Fatima Rosary Crusade and other Marian groups." In 1992 these conflicts came to a head when Father Gruner was physically removed from the Fatima shrine in Portugal during a conference he had planned there in defiance of the shrine's custodians.
Now compare it with the account in
www.devilsfinalbattle.com/appendix.htm
September 12, 2001 - Revealing their bizarre obsession with Father Gruner and his Fatima apostolate, only one day after the worst terrorist attack in world history, Vatican officials cause the Vatican press office to publish a “Declaration” to the world alleging that Father Gruner has been “suspended” from the priesthood, and that no one should attend a Fatima-related peace conference being sponsored by the apostolate in Rome from October 7-13, 2001. The “Declaration” states that it has been issued upon “the mandate from a higher authority”. The carefully inserted article in the phrase “a higher authority” clearly indicates that the “authority” in question is not the highest authority in the Church — namely, the Pope. The expression “a higher authority” is Vaticanspeak for the Secretary of State — Cardinal Sodano. In any case, under Church law a “mandate” by a nameless person is null and void.
The “Declaration” gives no grounds for the “suspension,” there being no grounds beyond the bogus accusation that Father Gruner “failed” to find another bishop to incardinate him and must therefore “return” to Avellino after 23 years. This is the same “failure” which the Vatican bureaucracy had engineered through its unprecedented interference in offers of incardination by a series of friendly bishops over the years, all of whom wished to foster Father Gruner's work.
Let us repeat that: the Vatican has refused the legitimate offers of numerous bishops to incardinate Fr Gruner, (i.e. enrol him in their diocese) and now is suspending him for the 'offence' of not being incardinated.
To return to our source:–
The Vatican announcement claims that the conference in Rome does not “enjoy the approval of ecclesiastical authority.” The statement is evidently calculated to mislead, since these Vatican officials are well aware that no approval whatever is required under Church law (canons 212, 215, 278, 299), which guarantees the natural right of clergy and laity to associate and discuss matters of concern in the Church. Incredibly, Vatican officials have never taken such dramatic measures, or indeed any measures at all, to prevent innumerable conferences and other gatherings constantly being held throughout the Church by priests, nuns and lay people who openly dissent from Catholic doctrine. These same Vatican officials seem to view the Message of Fatima as the greatest threat to the Church today.
That the Vatican should step up its persecution of Father Gruner only hours after thousands of Americans were slaughtered in an unprecedented terrorist attack, demonstrates beyond doubt the utter perversity of the opposition to the Message of Fatima from within certain elements of the Vatican bureaucracy. Neither the spread of heresy nor innumerable sexual scandals among the clergy over the past forty years has ever prompted such action from these same Vatican elements, who are duty-bound to protect the Church from her real enemies. It is a mystery of iniquity that the prime imperative of these Vatican officials, even in the midst of worldwide bloodshed and apostasy, has become suppression of the Message of Fatima — the very means by which bloodshed and apostasy can be averted.
Newcomers to the more hotly contested issues within the church might be upset at the implications. The truth is that "we bear a treasure in earthen vessels". No imputations are being made as to the inner motives or state of soul of any of the parties involved. However, the fact is that the Vatican is at present the oldest-running bureaucracy in the world, with two thousand years experience, and they know how to put pressure in many different ways. Italians in particular are far more aware of the human side of the Vatican than those living far away. The fact is that there are personality differences and power struggles, which "in the ordinary way" would never impinge on the life of the laity.