The implications of FI’s disclosures are of tremendous importance to Catholics worldwide. Under Canon Law any Catholic who became a Mason was ipso facto excommunicated from the Church. The consequence regarding Angelo Roncalli, would have been that as an excommunicate it would have been impossible for him to be elected pope. FI also points out that any decrees issued by Roncalli under the mantle of the Papacy would therefore be null and void, including the convoking of the Second Vatican Council in 1962.

Long-standing suspicions regarding John XXIII’s links to Masonry were further aroused in 1977, fourteen years after his death. Of particular interest was an advertisement published in the USA, Boston Pilot Magazine, which was offering for sale replicas of John XXIII’s pectoral cross. The cross was decorated with several Masonic symbols and had been authorised for sale by Archbishop Capovilla of Loreto, Italy, with the backing of the Vatican.

The Australian Robert Bergin, a founder member of FI who died in 1996, spent the last years of his life in Portugal, where he financed several publications detailing the facts linking the plight of Roncalli to the prophecies given by the Virgin Mary at Fátima in 1917. His efforts to persuade the Vatican to investigate Roncalli’ s Masonic connections were unsuccessful. This was of little surprise, as in 1976 the Vatican had failed to respond to the Italian journal, Burghese, which had published a list of over one hundred bishops and cardinals who it claimed were Freemasons. The list was purported to have been taken from the Italian Masonic Register and included the initiation dates and code names assigned to each of the clerics involved.

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According to the church leader, the gold sold by the Fátima Sanctuary was not used "to buy yachts", thereby eliminating at least one of the possible routes the "bloodied" gold could have taken following its stopover in the town where the Virgin Mary was said to have made several appearance during the First World War.

"The gold did not belong to the Sanctuary, but was rather bought to replace a shortage". He stressed during the television interview: "I do not know where that gold comes from".

Luciano Guerra dismissed potential difficulties as a result of his statements and previous damning revelations, saying that the Fátima Sanctuary "has nothing to hide" regarding Nazi gold.