No shrine, save for those in the Holy Land, is more linked with the churnings of history than that of Our Lady of Fatima.
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What accounts for this undeclared Year of Fatima, in which the world was swept with a wave of consecrations to the Immaculate Heart of Mary? Four reasons suggest themselves.
Read MoreThe centenary of the final Fatima apparition in 1917 and the Miracle of the Sun will mark a second highpoint to the anniversary celebrations, after the canonisation of Jacinta and Francisco on May 13.
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As we mark the centenary of the Fatima apparitions, there are suggestive links between Leo XIII, the St Michael prayer and Fatima for those who are anniversary-minded.
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At Fatima, Our Lady scared the hell out of the children to whom she appeared. Or more precisely, she frightened the children out of hell and took them instead to heaven. Pope Francis will confirm that on Saturday when he canonises Francisco and Jacinta in Fatima on the centenary of the first apparition on May 13, 1917.
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In the great slaughterhouse of the twentieth century, the sheer scale of lethal evil, organized above all in the communist regimes, appeared to have loosed Satan himself in the world.
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Do divine interventions in history belong only to the biblical period, and then only as fantastic tales intended to make a general point? Or do they accompany us through history?
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The centenary of the apparitions at Fatima invites us to look back at 1917, a year in which an old world order gave way to a new, more lethal one.
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In 1982, the Marian shrine that St. John Paul II wanted to visit was the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, the Queen of Poland. Instead, he went to Fatima.
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The anniversary is the columnist’s reliable friend. Nothing in the news today worthy of comment? How about the news of 10, 50 or 100 years ago?
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