Apparitions of Mary, Part II, Fatima
Sources: John J. DeLaney, ed., A Woman Clothed with the Sun: Eight Great Appearances of Our Lady , (Garden City, NY: Image Books, 1960). Catherine M. Odell, Those Who Saw Her: The Apparitions of Mary , (Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, 1986). (https://sspx.org/en/fatima_consecration_invalid_pope_bishops_russia) Wikipedia.com. One of the most amazing events of the 20 th century, well besides WWI, WWII, the Roswell crash, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf Wars, the nuclear age, etc., was the appearance of “the Blessed Virgin Mary” to three little shepherd kids in Portugal. If you are a Catholic, it was a big deal. If you are not, odds are you stuff that event in the Woowoo Closet of your mind with other anomalies like aliens and ghosts and Chris Angel Mindfreak. The closet is locked. There is nothing in there you need, so basically, all those things don’t exist. Mary appeared during a time of political and social upheaval. It was in 1917, during the...