The Spectre of Global Communism
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There is a stunning prophecy that I have been reflecting on over the holidays and now, as 2025 unfolds. A sobering reality is washing over me daily as I “watch and pray” in light of the “signs of the times.” It is also the “now word” at the beginning of this new year — that we are facing the spectre of global Communism…
When Communism Comes Again
This word was announced to the children of the apparition site in Garabandal, Spain in 1961 as a follow-up of sorts to the warning at Fatima, Portugal in 1917. Our Lady had warned then that, if Russia was not consecrated to her Immaculate Heart, and the world did not respond with penance, that Russia would “spread her errors”. What errors? The philosophies of socialism, Marxism, and atheism, which found their practical expression in Communism. The Blessed Mother’s message was crystal clear:
If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated. —Message of Fatima, vatican.va
At the time of Our Lady’s appearances in Garabandal,[1]the Church holds a neutral position on the apparitions
Communism held in its icy grip several nations spanning eleven time
zones. The “errors of Russia” were not only prevalent throughout the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R) but they also poisoned
Spain, China, Cuba, Vietnam and other nations, leaving nothing but death
and oppression in their wake. Most alarmingly, Communism was beginning
to wend its way into Western thought through the young.[2]“Thus
the Communist ideal wins over many of the better-minded members of the
community. These in turn become the apostles of the movement among the
younger intelligentsia who are still too immature to recognize the
intrinsic errors of the system.” —POPE PIUS XI, Divini Redemptoris, n. 15
Which is why Our Lady’s message to Garabandal seer, Conchita Gonzalez (age 12 at the time), was so stunning. The so-called “Warning, miracle, and chastisements” foretold in part at Fatima would come when Communism returns. But wait — it hadn’t even left it!
“When Communism comes again everything will happen.” (Conchita)
The author responded: “What do you mean by comes again?”
“Yes, when it newly comes again,” she replied.
“Does that mean that Communism will go away before that?”
“I don’t know,” she said in reply, “the Blessed Virgin simply said ‘when Communism comes again’.” —interview Garabandal – Der Zeigefinger Gottes (Garabandal – The Finger of God), Albrecht Weber
The War Against the Church
Many will point to the fall of the Berlin Wall and demise of the Soviet Union in 1991[3]cf. Wikipedia.org as the “collapse” of Communism. But Communism continued to exist in its ugly pre-Cold War state in North Korea, and remained the dominant philosophy in China. It never left there. So what does Our Lady mean “when Communism comes again”?
To understand, we have to recognize the underlying purpose of Communism and its philosophical foundations, rooted in Freemasonry.[4]“Communism, which so many believed to be an invention of Marx, had been fully hatched in the mind of the Illuminists long before he was put on the payroll.” —Stephen Mahowald,She Shall Crush Thy Head, p. 101 Communism is not just another political ideology but the ideology intended to supplant the Catholic Church. Russia was not the goal but the experiment.
Russia [was considered] the best-prepared field for experimenting with a plan elaborated decades ago, and who from there continue to spread it from one end of the world to the other. —POPE PIUS XI, Divini Redemptoris, n. 24; www.vatican.va
This is why pope after pope condemned Freemasonry and/or Communism.[5]“How important is the threat posed by speculative Freemasonry? Well, eight popes in seventeen official documents condemned it… over two hundred Papal condemnations issued by the Church either formally or informally… in less than three hundred years.” —Stephen, Mahowald, She Shall Crush Thy Head, MMR Publishing Company, p. 73 It was seen as the primary existential threat to Christendom:
At this period, however, the partisans of evil seems to be combining together, and to be struggling with united vehemence, led on or assisted by that strongly organized and widespread association called the Freemasons. No longer making any secret of their purposes, they are now boldly rising up against God Himself …that which is their ultimate purpose forces itself into view—namely, the utter overthrow of that whole religious and political order of the world which the Christian teaching has produced, and the substitution of a new state of things in accordance with their ideas, of which the foundations and laws shall be drawn from mere naturalism. —POPE LEO XIII, Humanum Genus, Encyclical on Freemasonry, n.10, Apri 20th, 1884
So, to answer our question of what does Our Lady mean by “when Communism comes again,” it seems clear that she is referring to when Communism once again threatens Christendom 
— traditionally understood as Western civilization.
In fact, one cannot underestimate the prophetic implications of the
present collapse of the West. The Early Church Fathers actually
understood the Roman Empire’s dissolution as the chief harbinger that lifts the retrainer holding back the Antichrist and a global poltical system St. John called the “beast” (cf. Revelation 13:1-10).
I grant that as Rome, according to the prophet Daniel’s vision, succeeded Greece, so Antichrist succeeds Rome, and our Savior Christ succeeds Antichrist. But it does not hence follow that Antichrist is come; for I do not grant that the Roman empire is gone. Far from it: the Roman empire remains even to this day… And as the horns, or kingdoms, still exist, as a matter of fact, consequently we have not yet seen the end of the Roman empire. —St. John Henry Newman (1801-1890), The Times of Antichrist, Sermon 1
This revolt or falling off is generally understood, by the ancient Fathers, of a revolt from the Roman empire, which was first to be destroyed, before the coming of Antichrist. It may, perhaps, be understood also of a revolt of many nations from the Catholic Church which has, in part, happened already, by the means of Mahomet, Luther, etc. and it may be supposed, will be more general in the days of the Antichrist. —footnote on 2 Thess 2:3, Douay-Rheims Holy Bible, Baronius Press Limited, 2003; p. 235
But today, St. John Henry Newman would easily agree with Benedict XVI who, in 2010, compared the present state of the West to the collapse of the ancient Roman Empire.
For all its new hopes and possibilities, our world is at the same time troubled by the sense that moral consensus is collapsing, consensus without which juridical and political structures cannot function… This fundamental consensus derived from the Christian heritage is at risk… In reality, this makes reason blind to what is essential. To resist this eclipse of reason and to preserve its capacity for seeing the essential, for seeing God and man, for seeing what is good and what is true, is the common interest that must unite all people of good will. The very future of the world is at stake.—POPE BENEDICT XVI, Address to the Roman Curia, December 20th, 2010; catholicherald.co.uk
If we are now in the final stage of collapse of this “Roman Empire” in its remnant form, it is precisely because Communism has begun its return:
Communism, then, is coming back again on the Western world, because something died in the Western world — namely, the strong faith of men in the God that made them. —Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen, “Communism in America”, cf. youtube.com
Venerable
Sheen’s prophetic insight was puncutated if not sealed decades later by
Cardinal Robert Sarah in a crucial critque of the spiritual collapse of
the Western World:
The spiritual crisis involves the entire world. But its source is in Europe. People in the West are guilty of rejecting God… The spiritual collapse thus has a very Western character… Because [Western man] refuses to acknowledge himself as an heir [of spiritual and cultural patrimony], man is condemned to the hell of liberal globalization in which individual interests confront one another without any law to govern them besides profit at any price. —Catholic Herald, April 5th, 2019
This “liberal globalization” is nothing other than the so-called “Great Reset” — a transhumanist revolution blending capitalism and communist principles[6]cf. The New Beast Rising to raise up a global beast with total control and surveillance over every aspect of our lives (see The Final Revolution). The primary two “levers” of control by the global elite are “pandemics” and “climate change”:
Convincing the public to give up steaks and property rights is annoying, so the excuse of ‘climate emergency’ was created as a non-negotiable reason to dismantle the free market and democratic governance… A pattern is emerging. International bureaucracies use Net Zero to force governments to destroy their agricultural sectors. Wealth immediately vanishes from the middle and working classes, triggering serious civil unrest. A crisis is declared, one that can only be escaped if the public accept handouts and a permanently reduced quality of life beholden to the generosity of the State. The nation is ‘reset’ with a significant transfer of wealth and rights. —Flat White, July 11, 2022, The Spectator
What is remarkable, so stunningly deceptive, is that many believe that the mandated “healthcare” and “climate” measures are being taken “for the common good.” In truth, they are being used to introduce a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), digital ID’s, vaccine passports, and austerity measures that will ultimately usher in a neo-Communist regime over the entire globe. When?
When we have cast ourselves upon the world and depend for protection upon it, and have given up our independence and our strength, then [Antichrist] may burst upon us in fury as far as God allows him. Then suddenly the Roman Empire may break up, and Antichrist appear as a persecutor, and the barbarous nations around break in. —Blessed John Henry Newman, Sermon IV: The Persecution of Antichrist
Right now, Satan is no longer hiding himself. His character is on full display: “A murderer from the beginning… and the father of lies.” [7]John 8:44 Yes, that was Jesus’ prophecy of Communism in full bloom![8]see The Labor Pains: Depopulation?
The Final Confrontation
With the collapse of the Berlin Wall, St. John Paul II understood exactly what the world and the Church had just gone through… but also, what she was facing.
We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide circles of the American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel and the anti-Gospel of Christ versus the anti-Christ… It is a trial… of 2,000 years of culture and Christian civilization, with all of its consequences for human dignity, individual rights, human rights and the rights of nations. —Cardinal Karol Wojtyla (JOHN PAUL II ), at the Eucharistic Congress, Philadelphia, PA; August 13, 1976; cf. Catholic Online (quote confirmed by Deacon Keith Fournier who was in attendance)
I am convinced that the terrifying beast that the prophet Daniel foresaw[9]cf. Daniel 7:19 and that St. John detailed in Revelation 13, and that now rises in our midst, is essentially what 
the Woman clothed in the Sun warned at Fatima: the rise of Communism.
It is the battle between the ancient serpent, the dragon — Satan —
against the Woman and her offspring: Jesus and His Church (Cf. Genesis
3:15). This is why Our Lady’s apparitions around the globe have exploded
exponentially in the last century. This is why icons and statues of Our
Lady and Lord have been weeping throughout the world.[10]see She Weeps All Over the World This is why God has poured out a spirit of prophecy in these last days… for the appearance of the Antichrist signals the imminence of the “Day of the Lord“:
‘It will come to pass in the last days,’ God says, ‘that I will pour out a portion of my spirit upon all flesh. Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams. Indeed, upon my servants and my handmaids I will pour out a portion of my spirit in those days, and they shall prophesy. And I will work wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below: blood, fire, and a cloud of smoke. The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and splendid day of the Lord,and it shall be that everyone shall be saved who calls on the name of the Lord.’ (Acts 2:17-22 )
In other words, as Our Lady said at Garabandal: “When Communism comes again everything will happen….”
Communism has not waned, it resurfaces in the midst of this great confusion on Earth and great spiritual distress. —Our Lady to Luz de Maria Bonnila, April 20, 2018; with bishop’s Imprimatur
We see how the power of the Antichrist is expanding, and we can only pray that the Lord will give us strong shepherds who will defend His Church in this hour of need from the power of evil. —POPE BENEDICT XVI, The American Conservative, January 10th, 2023
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