Fourth of July, Fatima, and the Future — A Warning, by Joseph Pronechen

“There are no simple coincidences in the designs of Divine Providence,” Pope St. John Paul II said on May 12, 1982, at the Chapel of Apparitions on his trip to Fatima. He had traveled there especially to thank our Blessed Mother for saving his life a year earlier.

So was it merely a coincidence that this year’s First Reading for July 4, 2023, was from Genesis, recounting the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah?

“Genesis tells us so much about our present situation,” according to Father Brian Gannon, a priest of the Diocese of Bridgeport. He reminded that “Abraham is led by God into the wilderness to set the stage for a great nation based on freedom, but God’s freedom.” ….