I did look at the new site. It seems to be exclusively Fr Paul Kramer and some sympathizers.
Hopefully, it can expand its readership.
I have to say, though, that there is a mournful air to the website, as though persecutions have taken place. To think that the takeover occurred in 2017, 100 years precisely after the Bolshevik Revolution and the Fatima apparitions which closely preceded that nightmare in Russia.
On the new website, not a word is uttered about the nature of the current-era persecutions, at least not in the articles at which I looked. Maria has given us the gist. How disastrous to have the funding absconded with by the coup-makers at the New Fatima Center. [ One has to distinguish between Old and New, or one gets the wrong impression that the same staff are at the helm. ]
I located that same letter from Cornelia Ferreira from last autumn which I found after the last time we talked about this upheaval. Cornelia didn't hesitate to sound the alarm and name names. Either she or another source wrote that even the attorney Chris Ferrara is strongly with the New Fatima Center group and did not join Fr Paul, which seems odd. In fact, this mainstay from the old days seems to have made an uncalled for denouncement of Fr Paul Kramer and his faction.
Coralie Graham was also ousted. Cornelia Ferreira writes : "Coralie Graham, who worked side-by-side with Fr. Gruner for over three decades and was editor of The Fatima Crusader for more than a quarter century, was abruptly shown the door a short while ago. Of all Father’s staff, she was probably the closest in thinking to him..."
Sounds really unfair. Maria, you say it was the SSPX which has usurped rule of Fr Gruner's Apostolate. Does it seem the SSPX were waiting in the wings all this time, biding their time ? Or they seized the opportunity to make a grab for control of the Fatima Center ?
I saw where some former supporters of the latter pulled their donations to the New Fatima Center as a result of the unpleasant machinations.
About that theory of Pope Benedict still being the Pope, surely this must be a face-saving way to avoid denouncing Francis the way he deserves ! It could be that Fr Gruner figured out this angle as a way to still stay in the Vatican II Church, but protest the nightmarish devil, Francis. [< = Is outrage ! ]
This has always been a major weakness the Old Fatima Center. A Pope is needed to perform the Consecration of Russia -- but how could the recent Popes be considered valid by the Queen of Heaven ? The Old Fatima Center did not therefore feel it could announce itself as sedevacantist, since SOME Pontiff was a vital part of the Fatima requests, together with all the Bishops.
However, the Old Fatima Center's stubborn position in accepting the all Popes became increasingly untenable in the face of the apostasy of this. Probably many members increasingly howled in complaint, seeing the evil behavior of Francis. What was Fr Gruner to do ? Maybe this illegal election of Francis idea was hoped to be the way out of the dilemma.
Then, too, Fr Gruner refused to accept the obvious existence of the 2 Sister Lucy's. While this was chalked up to his old age and understandable reluctance to change, the unbending Old Fatima Center party line that there was no substitution of an actress for Sister Lucy also presented a logical inconsistency.
It would be wonderful if Fr Paul Kramer could courageously speak out in this regard, which, although it would upset the apple cart, would pay dividends in the long run when the investigation mentioned above concludes that the real Sister Lucy was done away with in 1959 or sometime after. It would be too embarrassing to cling to the notion that there was only 1 Carmelite sister for the entire duration, because this has already been disproved. More findings may turn up in the Chojnowski or other quests to learn the fate of the eldest Fatima visionary.
Though the truth could, as Madison Grant asserts, be difficult to track down nearly 6 decades later, it may be a simpler endeavor to discern the identity of the imposter who impersonated Sister Lucy -- with very little talent, one must state. Surely a demure, reserved, frowningly serious woman could have been located for the job, but instead a grinning, laughing, joking woman was selected who received little or no training in the behavior of nuns.
It reminds one of the actress attempting to play Sister Scholastica in the 1949 film Come to the Stable. The Protestant Celeste Holm had to be shown by her Catholic co-star Loretta Young how to genuflect and much else as part of displaying a nunly demeanor.
With all the faux pas committed by the Sister Lucy Imposter, it's unbelievable that no one at all noticed the vast discrepancy until Dr Marian Horvat put her x-ray vision to work in uncovering this gross deception.