Peace

There is no shortage of Catholic clerics condemning the coming allied attack on Iraq. There are statements from the Holy Father, Pio Cardinal Laghi, and Cardinal Etchegaray here. Roger Cardinal Mahony agrees here. The USCCB has a lot to say here.

But hardly any mention of Fatima. The Holy Father did indeed plead in his latest encyclical for the rosary to be prayed. The USCCB mentions it in passing. And there it ends. The public proclamations never mention Fatima or Our Lady's prerequisites for a lasting peace. No penance of "daily duty". No first Saturdays. And most amazing of all, the "consecration of Russia" issue hasn't been brought up by anyone. Those who insisted it was done properly apparently have had no second thoughts. And those who insisted it wasn't done as Our Lady requested seem to have given up on it altogether. Not a peep out of anybody.

The major public proponents of avoiding war with Iraq seem to believe that peace will be achieved by relying on the U.N., stripping off in public, blocking traffic, and writing your congressman. It's a point of view, I suppose.

There is another view:

“Pray the Rosary every day in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary to obtain peace in the world . . . for she alone can save it.” (Our Lady—July 13, 1917)
“God has placed peace in her hands, and it is from the Immaculate Heart that men must ask it." (Bl. Jacinta Marto—shortly before her death)

More here.