Return to Tradition doubts the Third Secret was published in full; the record it relies on is second-hand

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith published the text in June 2000 and said “There is only one manuscript, which is here reproduced photostatically.” Its account of a meeting on 27 April 2000 says that when shown the envelope, Sister Lucia said “This is my letter”, and while reading it, “This is my writing” (The Message of Fatima).

In May 2016, answering reports that he had called the publication incomplete, the Holy See Press Office said Benedict XVI “confirms decisively that ‘the publication of the Third Secret of Fatima is complete’” and called the remarks attributed to him “pure inventions, absolutely untrue” (EWTN News).

Of the statements read in the episode, only the one attributed to Cardinal Ciappi speaks of an apostasy that “will begin at the top”. The episode describes it as a communication to a professor in Salzburg and cites no text from Ciappi himself. The words attributed to Cardinal Oddi speak of “apostasy in the church”, and those of Bishop Amaral say the secret’s content “concerns only our faith” (quotations read at 03:20–07:16).

The Holy See’s account names those who opened the envelope before 2000: John XXIII in 1959, Paul VI with Archbishop Angelo Dell’Acqua in 1965, and John Paul II after 1981, with Cardinal Franjo Šeper and Archbishop Eduardo Martínez Somalo handling it (The Message of Fatima). Neither Cardinal Oddi nor Cardinal Ciappi is named.