Cardinal Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira, the late Patriarch of Lisbon, Portugal, said: "It was not the Church who imposed Fatima on the world, but it was Fatima who imposed itself on the world" so that "all men remember Jesus the Savior who came" into the world that all may have life and have it in abundance "(Jn 10:10).
Similarly, an article by a bishop of Leiria-Fatima (Portugal), Monsignor Antonio Dos Santos Marto, published in Italy by "Vita e Pensiero", under the title "Fatima, the twentieth century and the mystery of iniquity", gave this conclusion: "Grace and mercy. These words of the last apparition of the Virgin at Lucia, in Tuy (Portugal), summarize the message of Fatima and the revelation of a God full of compassion ... who sees all human suffering ".
On March 15, 2017, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals in Rome, said: "The Mother of Jesus seems to want to remind us of the words addressed by Jesus to his disciples before his Ascension to Heaven: "Have confidence, I have conquered the world. I will be with you every day unto the end of time "(Matthew 28:20). "