Pope Francis

I agree. If there's one thing God taught me in a powerful way this Lent, it is this - we must forgive.

 

Yes as God is omnipotent and such a huge merciful heart, we must become small and have a merciful heart of forgiveness.

 

Many, many prayers and Masses for our poor Holy Father. He is our Spiritual Father, it is our duty to pray and our hearts tell us to love. If there is anything to forgive let it be totally forgiven. Let there be only love and prayer for him.

He who is Christ's Vicar on Earth.

Who knows perhaps this moment is one where the Holy Spirit may speak to him in a very special way? To him and to us all.

 

Update: Pope Francis rested well, continuing treatment in hospital, Vatican says
Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square on March 8, 2023. | Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

By Hannah Brockhaus

Rome, Italy, Mar 30, 2023 / 04:47 am

Pope Francis will continue to receive treatment after being hospitalized for a respiratory infection on Wednesday, a Vatican spokesman said Thursday.

“His Holiness Pope Francis rested well overnight. The clinical picture is progressively improving and he is continuing his planned treatment,” Holy See Press Office Director Matteo Bruni said in a brief statement issued just after 12:30 p.m. local time on March 30.

“This morning after having breakfast, [Pope Francis] read some newspapers and resumed work,” Bruni added. “Before lunch, he went to the chapel of his private apartment, where he spent time in prayer and received the Eucharist.”

On March 29 the Vatican announced that Pope Francis was expected to remain in a Rome hospital for a few days due to a respiratory infection. It had been announced earlier in the day that he was in the hospital for previously scheduled medical checkups.

As of Thursday morning, the pope’s agenda lists no appointments for the day for March 30. He is still scheduled to preside over a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on April 2 for Palm Sunday and to give the usual Sunday Angelus address.

“In recent days Pope Francis has complained of some difficulty breathing and this afternoon went to [Gemelli Hospital] to carry out some medical tests. The results of these tests showed a respiratory infection (a COVID-19 infection was excluded) that will require some days of opportune medical treatment in the hospital,” Holy See Press Office Director Matteo Bruni said Wednesday evening.

“Pope Francis is touched by the many messages he received and expresses his gratitude for the closeness and prayer,” Bruni added.

Bruni had issued a brief statement earlier in the afternoon of March 29 to say the pope was at Gemelli Hospital “for some previously scheduled checkups.”

Gemelli is the same hospital where Pope Francis was hospitalized in July 2021 when he underwent surgery on his colon for diverticulitis, or inflammation of the intestinal wall.

In an interview with the Associated Press in January, Pope Francis disclosed that the diverticulitis had “returned.” At the time, the 86-year-old pontiff — who traveled to South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo in late January — insisted he was in relatively good condition.

The pope has also suffered since last year from a problem with his right knee, making it necessary for him to rely on a cane and a wheelchair to move around. But Francis told the AP that a fracture had healed without surgery after laser and magnet therapy.

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Hannah Brockhaus is Catholic News Agency's senior Rome correspondent. She grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, and has a degree in English from Truman State University in Missouri.

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I hear the sentiment but ultimately that is all it is, sentiment. He is the Pope. Not an overzealous misguided Jew. Sometimes analogies obscure the reality

 

A lot of blame. He influenced many to take an experimental jab that he knew nothing about.

I said it at the time that he will be responsible before God for endorsing a gene therapy jab that was not tested on humans before.

And now we know the truth. A massive spike in deaths after the jabs.

There are people injured and dead because they listened to him and were influenced by him.

 

Yes. This is my concern. And my prayer.

 

Here's just one article on Pope Francis calling the vaccine a 'moral obligation'. We can split hairs about when the pope is speaking ex cathedra or whatever, but most of us have learned that the pope is infallible when speaking about faith and morals. So here he was clearly saying we have a duty to take the poison death shot. In addition he claims expertise when he says people are swayed by "baseless information". This death shot will likely one day be known as the greatest of crimes against humanity.

The period of time when all were getting vaxxed was scary and maddening for me as I tried to convince as many as I could not to take it. I confess that I have a hard time praying for him but I'm encouraged by all of you to try harder.

Associated Press

Pope Francis labels getting vaccinated a ‘moral obligation’
Published: Jan. 11, 2022 at 5:55 p.m. ET
By Associated Press


ROME (AP) — Pope Francis suggested Monday that getting vaccinated against the coronavirus was a “moral obligation” and denounced how people had been swayed by “baseless information” to refuse one of the most effective measures to save lives during the pandemic.

Francis used some of his strongest words yet calling for people to get vaccinated in a speech to ambassadors accredited to the Holy See, an annual event in which he sets out the Vatican’s foreign-policy goals for the year.

Francis, 85, has generally shied away from speaking about vaccination as a “moral obligation,” though his COVID-19 advisers have referred to it as a “moral responsibility.” Rather, Francis has termed vaccination “an act of love” and said refusing to get inoculated was “suicidal.”

From the archives (October 2021): Pope Francis expresses bewilderment over vaccine holdouts, including in the College of Cardinals

On Monday he went a step further, saying that individuals had a responsibility to care for themselves, “and this translates into respect for the health of those around us. Healthcare is a moral obligation,” he asserted.

 

At the end of the day he is our Spiritual Father.

Pretty well the entire Old Testament screams at us the importance of reverence for such fatherhood.

I am very happy to give it.

I did notice down the years of his Papacy the Catholics I reverenced the most on goings on the Church always, always showed the highest respect for the Office of Pope, .

I must adit I did not do it too often my

I would let this all go now and just pray for him.

He is the Pope. Our Spiritual Father.

I know, as we all know lots and lots about him.

But he is our Father. My own spiritual inclination at this time is just to pray for him.

The thought of a poor Pope being sent to hell is not a pleasant one. I am praying for our poor, poor, Holy Father,.

 

I agree.

 

ALL of us are guilty of sin.

NONE of us will make it to heaven, except by God's mercy.

The Pope is hurting.

The only Christian responce is to pray for him.

 

Beam and speck in eyes. Agree.
All have sinned and fallen short.

 

It does seem likely given the already large increases in excess death and disability, not to mention the very significant drop in birth rates since the jab started.

Didn't the prophecies of Akita include a statement about one of the chastisements coming from man himself? This seems to fit the bill.

Fr. Blount says we're in the middle of the chastisements now which also lends credence to this possibility.

 

I do pray for him, just not with feeling.

There is great hope with the Garabandal prophecies. Isn't it interesting that the Blessed Mother said that whoever is present for the miracle will be healed? The events of the last few years make me think it's directly related to this great evil.

 

The chastisement coming from man is below and not part of Akita prophecy:

Blessed Anna Maria Taigi [+1837] wrote of the coming chastisement, saying: "God will ordain two punishments: One, in the form of wars, revolutions and other evils, will originate on earth; the other will be sent from Heaven. There shall come over all the earth an intense darkness lasting three days and three nights [Joel 2: 31] 12 . . . the air will be laden with pestilence, which will claim principally but not exclusively the enemies of religion . . ."