Good article. I'm not Catholic and regard intra-Catholic dialog with only a passing interest, but I enjoyed this article. The part

As a non-expert, I can tell you that to me, Fatima is the most striking example of God, through Our Blessed Mother, reaching down into the filth and corruption of our time to both warn us of what we are doing and to give us hope.

was enough to hook me into the article. And it set the Fatima prophecies in the same vein as St. Francis, who was used to justify the faithful and rebuild the church literally and figuratively, at a time of generally acknowledged church corruption.