Warren H. Carroll's "1917: Red Banners, White Mantle," was a different view of history than I was taught. This little history concentrates on a specific time, contrasting four cataclysmic occurrences.
* Russia collapses and totalitarianism takes over.
*A worldwide pandemic hits.
*Europe becomes involved in a war.
*Our Lady of Fatima offers hope in Portugal.
Today, in 2020, the world is also enmeshed in natural disasters, terrorism, political dissension, and HATE. I can't help but think Our Lord will send us another message of hope. We can't wait for this year to end, this time to be over, and any succor Our Lady can offer.
That's how Warren Carroll depicts the people in this history. Pope Benedict XV offered to broker peace but his plans and ideas were not accepted. (Reminds me of Fratelli Tutti, Lumen Fidei, Evangeli Gaudium
, and everything else Pope Francis wrote.) The world did not listen to the Vicars of Christ then, nor now, and worse,
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