By Hunter Bradford, Church Militant - Sister Lúcia, the eldest of the three children of Fatima, had this to say in the early 1980s: "A time will come when the decisive battle between the Kingdom of Christ and Satan will be over marriage and the family." Likewise, in a homily in November of 1986, Pope St. John Paul II said, "As the family goes, so goes the nation, and so goes the whole world in which we live."