...included that mysterious promise about Russia's conversion. Immensely puzzling to a trio of Portugese country children who knew nothing of Russia or the 1917 revolution, or the horrors that were to come in the USSR and in Europe with WWII and more... And then we got a Polish Pope, and the consecration of the world in 1984. And today a new Cathedral of Our Lady of Fatima is consecrated in the heart of what was once Russia's Gulag Archipelago. Watch this...
I came across this news item as I was looking for various other news items on the Internet. Watching it, I thought again about Solzenhitsyn's Gulag Archiplego back in the 1970s, and then being in Berlin one Spring Sunday in 1984 and talking about the significance of the Pope's world consecration in Rome. And now, with the collapse of the USSR and the fall of the Berlin Wall already history, this is happening, something unimaginable to those suffering in the Gulag decades ago...
Earlier this year I wrote a review of the new book on Fatima with a Foreword by the excellent Cardinal Raymond Burke in which some of these issues are explored.
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