The final battle between the Lord and the kingdom of Satan will be about Marriage and the Family. Sister Lucia dos Santos, one of the three children who witnessed the Marian apparitions at Fatima, .
Credit: Wuttichai Jantarak/Shutterstock / nullVatican City, Apr 11, 2022 / 02:45 am (CNA).What makes a school or university Catholic? As far as universities are concerned, Pope John Paul II answered this question with his apostolic constitution Ex corde Ecclesiae in 1990, which established criteria to regulate the work of universities that called themselves Catholic. Although Ex corde Ecclesiae is considered a general guideline for all Catholic educational institutions, there is curiously only one reference to it in the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education s recent instruction on Catholic schools. The rather extensive document, called "The Identity of the Catholic School for a Culture of Dialogue," is a practical guide for all schools that want to claim the title of Catholic.The instruction had been in the works for years. In 2015, a congress on Catholic education took place in the Vatican and the Congregation immediately set to work on a "directory" for all
Our Lady of Fatima. / Joseph Ferrara Our Lady of Fatima in LA Archdiocese via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).Mexico City, Mexico, Oct 13, 2021 / 08:33 am (CNA).Sister Lucia dos Santos, one of the three children who witnessed the Marian apparitions at Fatima, died in 2005. But before her death, she predicted that the final battle between Christ and Satan would be over marriage and the family.So says Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, who reports that the visionary sent him a letter with this prediction when he was Archbishop of Bologna, Italy.This reported statement by Sister Lucia, expressed during the pontificate of Saint John Paul II, was revisited in 2016 by the Desde la Fe (From the Faith) weekly of the Archdiocese of Mexico, in the midst of the debate generated by President Enrique Pena Nieto, who announced his intention to promote same-sex marriage in this country.The Mexican weekly recalled the statements that Cardinal Caffarra made to the Italian press in 2008, three years after the death .