Commenting on the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima and why no one beyond the
crowd of 70,000 witnessed such, Traditionalist Catholic apologists John Salza
and Robert Sungenis wrote that:
. .. if God “held back” the eyes of those who gathered
with the three children at the Cova to see Our Lady (although the others who
saw the tree limbs bend from Our Lady’s wright and the petals move with Our
Lady’s motion), then God could have held back the eyes of the rest of the world
during the Miracle of the Sun. (John Salza and Robert Sungenis, The Consecration of Russia: How Seven Popes
Failed to Heed Heaven’s Command and Brought Turmoil to the Church and the World
[Germantown, Wis.: Hometown Publications, Inc., 2013], 61 n. 123)
It appears that Salza and Sungenis have a better grasp of how miraculous
appearances and the like work than certain Protestant apologists vis-à-vis not
all assembled always seeing such events (cf. The
Number of Moroni's Appearances to Joseph Smith).