Reparation and the Dual Dimension of Pope John Paul II’s by
Jerome F. Coniker 1. Pope John Paul II has taught us how to
enter into that era of peace promised by Our Lady of Fatima.
While in New York in 1995, the Holy Father asked families to do
two things: pray the Rosary and study the Catechism of the
Catholic Church. He continues to tell us, “Take the Gospel to
your neighbors!” By vigorously learning the Faith and teaching
it to our children and our neighbors, we can truly renew family
life and society. If those of us who have been given the light
of the Catholic faith do not make heroic sacrifices now to do
what the Holy Father is telling us to do, our society will
continue on its “free-fall” into the abyss of immorality, and we
will see, before our very eyes, the fulfillment of the
“conditional” prophecies of the approved apparitions of Our Lady
in Fatima and Akita (Japan). I say “conditional” because that is
what they are—conditional to the degree of how we sacrificially
respond to Our Lady’s requests. F