No better example of the penetration of the Cold War into American theology can be found than in the cult of Fatima. Fatima was the Portuguese location of a purported visit of the Virgin Mary in 1917 — the same year of the Bolshevik Revolution, and an aborted radical attack in Portugal. A shepherd child, Lucia dos Santos, claimed to have witnessed the Marian visitation and later connected the event to a prophecy that the Communist regime in Russia would be overthrown and the Soviet Union reclaimed for Christianity. Thereafter, Fatima became central to Cold War Catholicism, and praying to Fatima was claimed to assist the heavenly forces struggling against the Communists. Unamerican" in February 1946. Archbishop Richard J. Cushing of Boston argued that same year that Catholicism was one of America's "greatest bulwarks" against communism. In 1948 the Catechetical Guild of Saint Paul produced...