[shadowlands1960]

Our Lady still wants Russia to convert....

[T.B. Yoits]

Our Lady of Fatima said Russia would be converted if her requests were heeded but she made no mention of the future of the United States.

[BenLurkin]

Aren’t some Russians already Christians? The churhes are open and operating, so obviously Stalin wasn’t able to wipe all of them out.

[Jan_Sobieski]

What does Our Lady of Fátima have to do with Russia and Ukraine?

Nothing. Mary cannot save Russia. Only Jesus Christ can!

[Clemenza]

Last I checked a huge portion of the Russian and Ukrainian population are still nominally Christian and so don’t have to convert. Abortion rate is much higher in Russia and Ukraine than US though:

Top 10 Countries with the Highest Abortion Rates (annually per 1000 women) - United Nations Russia - 53.7 (2004) Vietnam - 35.2 (2000) Kazakhstan - 35.0 (2004) Estonia - 33.3 (2005) Belarus - 31.7 (2004) Romania - 27.8 (2004) Ukraine - 27.5 (2004) Latvia - 27.3 (2004) Cuba - 24.8 (2004) China - 24.0 (1998)

[who_would_fardels_bear]

It is said that Russia was never consecrated while it was communist, but now that it is making some steps toward moving back to Orthodoxy the Vatican finally gets around to it.

Yet another case of strange behavior from the post conciliar Church

[Ann Archy]

When I was in grade school,65 years ago, we said a prayer for Russia’s conversion every day.

[G Larry]

The author does a disservice by not posting the context:

The Consecration of Russia as requested by Our Lady

Specific request

The three children Lucy, Francisco and Jacinta said that in the apparition on June 17, 1917, the Virgin said to them:

I shall come to ask for the Consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart. If people attend to my requests, Russia will be converted and the world will have peace.” They said that on July 13, 1917 the Virgin told them:

God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace.

The [First World] war is going to end; if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the pontificate of Pius XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign given you by God that He is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father. To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart....

If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace. If not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, and various nations will be annihilated. In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she will be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world.”

Go to the link for critical details. The key is it hasn't been done as instructed, always with some modification.

[dangus]

The problem has not been the lack of consecration by the Pope, but the lack by the rank-and-file Catholics. The Blessed Virgin Mary had TWO conditions for the conversion of Russia: (1) the consecration of Russia by the Pope, and (2) the devotion of Catholics to first Saturdays’ worship.

The consecration doesn’t work by magic; blaming the use of “Russians” instead of “Russia” in the 1950s consecration by Pope Pius XII a belief in incantation. The consecration will work by the power of prayers of the Church Militant, defeating the forces of Satan with the power of Christ.

[deks]

Over 100 years after Fatima, I’m wondering why this was not done before.

[Albion Wilde]

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