Answer: The Third Secret, written by Sister Lúcia in 1944, contained a symbolic vision of a “bishop dressed in white” walking through a ruined city and being struck down — interpreted as the suffering of the Church and the assassination attempt on John Paul II. Successive Popes read the secret but withheld it, fearing that its apocalyptic imagery would be misunderstood or politicized during the Cold War. Only in 2000, after the fall of communism and the peaceful Jubilee Year, did John Paul II authorize its publication with Cardinal Ratzinger’s theological commentary, clarifying that the vision was symbolic rather than predictive.