History Channel Special on Fatima, Wed. Nov 4th, 9:00PM EST

[timoose]

What really galls me is the very idea that Our Lady would come as a thankful penitent to the Mohammedans, who say her Son is a fake, was never crucified and died, never rose from the dead, and is not the Son of God. This fish bone is sticking in my craw. What enrages my bile is Father Apostoli saying it in that video. To think there is some kind of equivalence between Mohammedans and the Catholic Church bothers me.
tim

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What really galls me is the very idea that Our Lady would come as a thankful penitent to the Mohammedans, who say her Son is a fake, was never crucified and died, never rose from the dead, and is not the Son of God. This fish bone is sticking in my craw. What enrages my bile is Father Apostoli saying it in that video. To think there is some kind of equivalence between Mohammedans and the Catholic Church bothers me.
tim

Yeah, they spent a disproportionate amount of time talking about that, too.  It doesn't even make a whole lot of sense. For one thing, the apparition didn't even occur in Fatima; it happened outside Fatima in Cova da Iria, which is an area of pasture land several kilometers from Fatima.

[Aloysius]

Mary's choice of Fatima might have implications for the conversion of the Muslims for the reasons listed in the video.  Don't count out the possibility that those who were interviewed might have gone a little further into that but the History Channel wasn't comfortable with it.  not to say that they definitely did, and if they did they likely flowered it up with conciliatory 'ecumenical' sugar coating (that still might've made the history channel uncomfortable), but it's possible there was something more to the point... her recognizing that they respect her and inviting them into fuller respect for her by recognizing the truth about her Son.

[timoose]

I understand that "Fatima" might help in converting the Mohammedans, but the word thankfulness bothers me to no end. I have heard Fr. Pacwa express similar thoughts but never like this. He has always expressed hope that since in their "way", they revere Mary or Miriam she might intercede for their conversion. Fine, I'm up for that but this stinks.
tim