By Brad Miner, The Catholic Thing - John Paul was shot on the feast of Our Lady of Fatima. When the Blessed Virgin spoke to the children in 1917, she warned about what would result from the Russian Revolution. Karol Wojtyla had faced communism’s rise in Poland, just as Reagan had in Hollywood... Throughout the West, post-war policy had been to contain communism. But this president and this pope had a different plan, which Reagan made public in a speech at Notre Dame just six weeks after he’d been shot: “The West won’t contain communism, it will transcend communism.” It will “dismiss it as some bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written.”