The contents of the Third Secret deal with a crisis of the kind which has necer occurred in modern Catholicism, and the inability of the hierarchy to tackle this adequately.

Supposing I was to tell you that there would be three days of darkness… and if I told you that one whole nation would be wiped out overnight, If I told you that one huge block of the American continent would be washed away, and if I told you of an earthquake in such and such…

Besides there is one other factor. There are 2 elements in the letter, which, if they got into the hands of America's enemies, would be strategically useful.