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2015

  1. 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

  1. 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)