Fatima, the Shooting of John Paul II, and the Myth of Providence
On the 45th anniversary of the shooting of Karol Wojtyła in St. Peter’s Square, the National Register portal published a commentary by Grattan Brown, STD, director of mission at the so-called “Saint John Paul II National Shrine” in Washington, D.C. The article, saturated with the mythology of Fatima and the hagiography of a manifest heretic, presents the assassination attempt as a miracle of “Our Lady of Fatima” and frames Wojtyła’s survival as divine Providence at work — all while omitting the apostasy, heresy, and systemic destruction of the Faith that defined his 26-year pontificate. The commentary is a textbook example of how the conciliar sect weaponizes private revelations of dubious origin to legitimize the reign of modernism and obscure the true causes of the Church’s present ruin.





