text: Rather,  God uses HIS creation to communicate to us or in this case to Sister Lucia. Mary said what the sign would be.  It occurred as she had indicated and WWII broke out soon thereafter.    I didn't say it was a sign of the end.  It was a sign that we had not changed our ways and converted as He asked through Our Lady of Fatima and the consequences of that failure meant WWII, the annihilation of many nations, the spread of Communism and much suffering for the Church and the Pope.  But in the end, Our Lady promised, her Immaculate Heart would triumph and an era of peace would be accorded to mankind.  We are awaiting that triumph.  We have seen the truth of this 1917 apparition with WWII, the spread of Communism, the eliminations of many nations and new names for those that took their place, the persecution of Christians, the shooting of JPII, the resignation of Benedict amid scandal, Francis' teaching distorted etc.