Last Train to Minsk

"And Sister Lucy Told Me..."
A conversation with Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, the Catholic archbishop in Moscow for the past 16 years, on the eve of his departure for Belorussia
- by Dr. Robert Moynihan

MOSCOW, Russia, October 29, 2007 -- Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz drummed his powerful fingers nervously against the arms of the chair.

"Yes, I did speak with Sister Lucy," he told me. "Three times."

(He was referring to Sister Lucy of Fatima, one of the three Portuguese shepherd children who had visions of Mary on six occasions in 1917, 90 years ago. Sister Lucy died at the age of 98 in 2005, just six weeks before Pope John Paul II died on April 2 of that year.)

"You went to Portugal to see her?" I asked. (We spoke in English, which the archbishop speaks fluently.)

"Yes, three times," said Kondrusiewicz. He held up three fingers...

"She said I should consider that the essential thing is the salvation of souls, and the conversion of sinners..."

A very interesting interview with Archbishop Kondrusiewicz.

The interview is here