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Timeline: The Fatima Center
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2025
Catholic Family News announces its December 2025 issue will be its last
The board of Catholic Family News, the traditionalist monthly long edited by John Vennari, announced that its December 2025 issue would be its last and that The Fatima Center USA would preserve the paper's archive.
SourcesThank you and Farewell (Catholic Family News)Catholic Family News (Wikipedia)
2022
Pope Francis consecrates Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
During a penitential service at St Peter's, with a parallel act at Fátima, Francis consecrated Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart. The Fatima Center called the ceremony solemn but said it was not the consecration Our Lady had requested.
SourcesPope Francis: Consecrating Russia and Ukraine to Mary is 'not a magic formula… (America Magazine)Did the Recent Consecration Fulfill Our Lady's Request? (The Fatima Center)
2015
Fr. Nicholas Gruner, founder of The Fatima Center, dies
Nicholas Gruner, who founded the Fatima Crusaders (now The Fatima Center) in 1978 and whose canonical suspension was disputed for years, died while working in the Center's office in Fort Erie, Ontario.
SourcesFather Nicholas Gruner, suspended priest who led Fatima Crusader, dead at 72 (Catholic World News)Nicholas Gruner (Wikipedia)
2000
Vatican publishes the third part of the Fatima secret with Ratzinger's commentary
The CDF document The Message of Fatima published all three parts of the secret with a theological commentary by Cardinal Ratzinger, who wrote that no great mystery is revealed. The Fatima Center and its founder Nicholas Gruner disputed that the disclosure was complete.
SourcesThe Message of Fatima (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith)Fatima and the conspiracy theories (California Catholic Daily)