In the "third secret" at Fatima, the Blessed Virgin foretold the Second World War but promised that her Immaculate Heart would prevail, the Godless terror would be overcome, and that Russia would be converted to the Catholic Faith. I do not think that this means that people will be converted from Orthodoxy to Catholicism. It has always been interpreted as an end of the regime that was godless and persecuting the Faith, and that Russia will be converted to Christ, and will then become a source of Christian blessing for the whole world. From a heavenly perspective, where the Eucharist is, where Our Lady and the saints and angels are, there is the Church. Our divisions do not reach as far as heaven, and Mary, the Mother of God, looks at things from a heavenly perspective. Nothing shows this more than the relationship between Fatima and the icon of Our Lady of Kazan. Because of what Our Lady said at Fatima, we used to have "prayers for Russia" after every time we celebrated Sunday Mass. People were encouraged to do small acts of penance for the Church in Russia. We were practising ecumenism in prayer and penance without realising it!! When Communism fell in an almost bloodless coup, this was attributed by Orthodox Christians to the protection of Our Lady of Kazan. At that time, the icon of Our lady of Kazan was in Fatima. Now the Patriarch and the Vatican are preparing to combine forces in a campaign to save the Christian roots of Europe against all that is attacking Christianity. Is this not a fulfillment of Our Lady's prophecy?
