Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
George Weigel: Ukrainian lessons for the West
Members of a so-called Maidan self defence unit carry a coffin containing the body of their friend near a barricade in the centre of Kyiv on March 4, 2014.
On May 13, 1982, one year to the day after the assassination attempt in St. Peter's Square, Pope John Paul II made a pilgrimage to the Marian shrine at Fatima in Portugal in thanksgiving for his life's being spared. There, he reflected on the seemingly random fact that he had been shot on the feast day of Our Lady of Fatima: "In the designs of Providence," he said, "there are no mere coincidences." What seems to us "coincidence," he was suggesting, is simply a facet of Providence that we've not yet grasped.
