[Hermann the Cherusker]

The trend comes straight out of WWII, with an entire generation sent overseas to fornicate and steal and obsess about saving their own ass for 4-6 years.

WHOA. Spoken like a true anti-American. Hermann, I do believe you are actually French.

Chalk up one vote from a so-called Catholic Traditionalist against Our Lady of Fatima's warnings.

I'll be keeping a tally. Anyone taking bets on how many more will bite?

PS. Deb - I'm German-Norse. Trust me. Very, very, German, very, very Norse. Not a drop of French blood, near as I can tell, anywhere in the past 500-1000 years.

[Maximilian]

The trend comes straight out of WWII, with an entire generation sent overseas to fornicate and steal and obsess about saving their own ass for 4-6 years.

I'm with you on this one.

Very, very, German, very, very Norse. Not a drop of French blood, near as I can tell, anywhere in the past 500-1000 years.

If one were "very, very" Norse he wouldn't be German, and vice-versa. And if you family tree goes back 1000 years, then there wasn't any distinction between Germany and France, so you may have more than "a drop of French blood" after all. Charlemagne would be considered a German by today's standards.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

You are not American. That level of vile hatred and ingratitude is not seen even in the 60's radicals who have a quiet respect for WWII veterans.

You are European.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Chalk up one vote from a so-called Catholic Traditionalist against Our Lady of Fatima's warnings

Here's a vote from another so-called Catholic Traditionalist who obviously didn't have the benefit of your Fatima wisdom:

I am worried by the Blessed Virgin's messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the Church is a divine warning aginst the suicide of altering the Faith, in Her liturgy, Her theology and Her soul....I hear all around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the univeral flame of the Church, reject Her ornaments and make Her feel remorse for Her historical past.

A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will tempted to believe that man has become God. In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them. Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before the empty tomb, they will ask, "Where have they taken Him?"

-----Pope Pius XII