CaliforniaKid wrote:Our Lady of Fatima wrote:“You saw hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them God wishes to establish in the world the devotion to My Immaculate Heart. If they do what I will tell you, many souls will be saved, and there will be peace. The war is going to end. But if they don't stop offending God, another and worse one will begin in the reign of Pius XI. When you shall see a night illuminated by an unknown light (the night of the 25th to 26th of January, 1938), know that this is the great sign God will give you that He is going to punish the world by means of war, hunger, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father. To prevent this, I come to ask for the consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of reparation on the first Saturdays. If they listen to My requests, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace. If not, she will scatter her errors throughout the world, provoking wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, and various nations will be annihilated.
“In the end, My Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to Me, and she will be converted, and a certain period of peace will be granted to the world.”
To say that the above is non-public, non-binding, and wholly unoriginal seems like a real stretch. Maybe it is those things in the eyes of the institutional Church. But surely not in the eyes of a devotee.
It is a prophecy, which, is not required to be believed by any Catholic. But as I said, it most certainly is believed by millions, but not by church decree.
I think in regards to your topic of charismatics, there is in the Catholic church the teaching/belief of sensus fidelium. I would say this is the charismatic defintion in a Catholic framework. In relationship to Fatima, the sense of the faithful influences very greatly the devotions that are practiced.
From wikipedia:
While most Catholic doctrines and theological teachings either originate in scripture or are established by the higher levels of the Church hierarchy, sensus fidelium works from the ground up, from the beliefs of the masses of the faithful, not only as understood through the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Bible, but also as inspired by the Holy Spirit, which guides the faithful at large within the framework of the Magisterium of the Catholic Church.