Poslední tajemství z Fatimy – von Reisswitz Crista Kramer

Over the last ten years, we have relatively quickly gotten used to living in a world that no longer faces the threat of global nuclear conflict. Nevertheless, for at least two decades, humanity suffered from the nightmare of the rivalry between the two nuclear superpowers. The third secret of Fatima stirred the curiosity of people during these uncertain times, but the church delayed its publication. This occurred under a changed situation, after the fall of totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe and the essentially bloodless dismantling of the Soviet empire. The hesitation of the popes, who delayed the publication of the third secret of Fatima, was mostly justified by the belief that people in the sixties to eighties would understand the message derived from the third secret in the wrong context. Today we can say that the church was not mistaken in its assessment. The revelation of the Virgin Mary to three Portuguese shepherds took place in 1917, when Bolshevism was also triumphing in Russia. Due to the growing power of the Soviet empire, programmatic atheism spread unprecedentedly across the world. The entire history of the third secret of Fatima is directly related to the rise, expansion, and fall of communism in Russia. On one hand, the third secret of Fatima warned of the dangers arising from a ruthless fight against faith, on the other hand, it warned of...