Fatima: Modernist Against Modernist

Anti-Catholic Monsignore Luciano Guerra, 90, rector of Fatima shrine, Portugal, from 1973 to 2008, publicly criticised his successor in JornalDeLeiria.pt (December 22) for focusing on "intellectuals" and "artists" instead on the pilgrims.

He mentions the big 2017 centenary of the apparitions, where there was "lot of music" and "other artistic performances." Guerra admits that there are still wonderful exhibitions in Fatima, "but they are too expensive, in my opinion, and their pastoral results are less obvious."

After going into retirement, Guerra noticed that the pilgrims "need an atmosphere of prayer.”

Manager salaries paid even to priests also bother Guerra, “Almost suddenly, more than 130 new employees were hired” to a total of 210.

Guerra is responsible for Fatima's ugly "Holy Trinity Church" that looks like a storehouse. Its mosaic (pictured below) was fabricated by now infamous Father Rupnik.

Fatima's present rector, Monsignor Carlos Cabecinhas replied by attacking Guerra who himself initiated international congresses inviting contemporary [pompous] "theologians" and "intellectuals."

Guerra produced mainly large "ceremonial spaces" that must be maintained today, he complained.

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