The Lady of Fatima...Falsely Discredited
"Celestial Secrets : The Hidden History of the Fatima Incident" is the 2nd volume of a trilogy of books (in English).
The core theme of all 3 Volumes is to seek to make the case that the well known Fatima, Portugal visionary events of 1917, were in reality a prime example of a visit to Earth by extraterrestrials in UFOs.
Using deceptive references to the publication "Documentation.Vol I", the writers have employed fabrication, the obvious omission of counterpoint information from the same context, and employing the selective "cherry-picking" of key phrases out of context, from these now published priests' personal notes.
Mind you, this is the same source used by the writers to support their own controversial viewpoints. Sadly, these writers have also made extensive use of free association in their logical case to support all of their UFO theories. Against the Church and the visions they have employed a form of classical sophistic argument method where a few kernels of truth are wrapped up with distortions, misleading statements and the selective use of out-of-context phrases from a legitimate reference source. This produces a clever, deceiving story package disguised as a serious research effort, but in the final analysis it has only produced a sloppy, overwrought and fallacious product.
To each his own on the general subject matter of Ufology, and if one would enjoy a disjointed work on a New Age subject for their reading list, then fine. However. "Celestial Secrets." decisively fails the test of making a serious critique or of launching a successful bid to effectively discredit the Catholic Church's religious claims and promulgation of what the Church terms as "Our Lady of Fatima and her Message".
Edmund J Grant (USA)