The Vatican has released the text of the third part of the message to the seers at Fatima along with an interpretation. Here is the text:

And we saw in an immense light that is God: ‘something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it' a Bishop dressed in White ‘we had the impression that it was the Holy Father'. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions. Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God.

The Vatican's interpretation runs along these lines: The bishop in white is the Pope, and, in particular, John Paul II. The steep mountain is the difficult path which the twentieth century has laid out for all religious persons. The big cross is a symbol of Christianity, and the goal of salvation for the Pope and those who attend him. The killing of the Pope is a figurative expression of the assassination attempt on the Pope in 1981.

This interpretation will not do. Too many elements of the text are omitted. Here is what the message means:

In connection with the prophecy in Revelation 11, the Pope will undertake a religious pilgrimage to Jerusalem in an attempt either to restore peace, or to deliver God's message to those who are fighting there (see my interpretation of Revelation 11). The city is half in ruins because of the ongoing war. The Pope is old and frail (as he is today, suffering from Parkinsons Disease; not young and healthy as he was in 1981). Together with others, he climbs the Temple Mount, or perhaps to the church of the Holy Sepulchre (symbolized by the cross). There are corpses along the way, which is another signal that this is a war zone. He reaches the top of the mountain (again, probably the Temple Mount) and there he is killed by a number of soldiers (not merely wounded by a lone gunman, as in 1981). Those who accompany him are killed as well. The cross under which they are killed is a sign of their martyrdom. This is the same scene that is revealed in Revelation 11:3-7: God's two prophets (The Pope? and ???) will complete their testimony and be killed. Their corpses will lie in the street for three and a half days while their enemies make fun of their deaths (Revelation 11:8-10). This, however, is only a tempory victory. After three and a half days, God will resurrect them publicly and they will ascend into Heaven (Revelation 11:11-13). Because of the glory of their resurrection and the evidence they supply of God's power, God honors them as his lampstands and Olive trees (Revelation 11:4), that is, they have positions of honor in his kingdom. It is because of this promise that the Pope and those who accompany him make the decision to go to Jerusalem. They know full well that they will be killed (this is the cross they see and strive for as they climb), but they bear in mind such passages as Matthew 10:39, Luke 17:33, and John 12:25 (He who would save his life will lose it and he who loses his life will save it) and look for a greater glory in the next life by becoming martyrs in this one. Some, perhaps, seek atonement for the sins of the Church itself, or for their own sins. Of course, only two of those who are killed are resurrected bodily for all to see. As Revelation 13:7 says, "And it [The Beast]was allowed to wage war with the saints and to overcome them." The others will be resurrected with the other martyrs on the last day (which is soon to follow see Revelation 11:14ff). Their sanctity is symbolized by the collection of their blood by the angles.

This same message is indicated in Mother Eugenia's Messages from The Father (see, for example this online edition. In the section "To the Pope" in Part I of her message, we find the following paragraphs:

Let my priests go fearlessly everywhere, among all nations, to bring the flame of My fatherly love to men. Then souls will be enlightened and conquered, not only among unbelievers, but in all those sects which are not of the true Church.
Yes, I want these men also, who are My children, to see this flame shining before them, to know the truth, to embrace it and to put all the Christian virtues into practice.

I communicated to My Vicar, the Supreme Pontiff, My Representative on earth, a very special predilection for the missionary apostolate in distant countries and, most of all, a great zeal to spread throughout the world the devotion to the Sacred Heart of My son Jesus. Now I am entrusting him with the work that this same Jesus came on earth to accomplish: to glorify Me by making Me known as I am, as I am telling all men, My creatures and children.

It should additionally be clear to all that the God-snubbing Zionists in Israel have stood in violation of the covenant for many years now, even as their Biblical ancestors repeatedly were. Yet, nevertheless, they dare to assert a Biblical right to the land even as they abuse, exploit, malign, steal from, and even kill their neighbors. The time is right for someone to lead a call for the renewal of the covenant, and there is no better place for this than Jerusalem itself, and, in particular, the Temple Mount or the site of Jesus's crucifixion. As the prophecies above make clear, however, this is a suicide mission. There are many crowns of martyrdom to be claimed here, but who will claim them? The Pope? An Orthodox Patriarch? A non-Zionist Jew? A secular leader like Yassar Arafat? Will you lead the way? Will you follow? The invitation awaits a response.