To be expected... Dialogue with no explicit claim of the fullness of truth in the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic Church. To emphasize peaceful co-existence is a road Pope Francis journeyed on, leading to the disastrous claim: all religions are pathways to God. I pray Pope Leo XIV taps on the brakes, and doesn't go that far.
Has there been any clarification yet on statements made about the new Pope from last week. I had hoped there would be a new thread so that we all know where everyone stands and move forward with at least some clarity. Any chance?
I watched an interview with that brother of the Pope. Asked what he would like his brother to do as Pope, he said that he would like the Church to bless marriages between Catholics and non-Catholics because his wife is not Catholic. The Church already blesses such marriages. I thought it strange that a Cardinal's brother wouldn't be aware of that.
Malachi, the first 2 days of the new Pontificate the internet resounded with expressions of renewed hope and excitement for the Church; now it seems to me that such certainty has wavered and a number of cautionary flags have been hoisted as various facts have come to light about Pope Leo XIV and his possible intentions. In spite of the last 12 years of angst and disappoint (at least from my perspective), I think this Sunday's readings provide a more balanced picture. (1) The first reading pictures the Church in turmoil around the year 49AD. (2) The reading from Revelation views a glorious Church from the eternal perspective. And in the Gospel, Jesus counsels his apostles at the Last Supper: Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid. Let us take the words of Jesus to heart that He will lead each one of us and all of us to to peaceful waters: 23:1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. 3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. 5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. 6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. When I served as chaplain in the hospital, the above King James Version of Psalm 23 soothed many a patient at the doorway to eternity.
I agree, Mario. While this may still be important to some, a clarification of certain views of the new pope no longer matters as much to me because I sense God reminding me about where I ought to rest my ears. My experiences leading up to as well as during the turmoil of the Covid years have taught me in a massive way that God’s guiding light must be the only voice I listen to if I am to come to the Truth and His will for me. And when I hear that voice - no matter how different or even contrary its message to my beliefs or to what even so-called prophets are proclaiming - I will know for certain that this voice belongs to the Good Shepherd. And I will know it by the way it cuts through the layers of misinformed views and deceptions, yet without even a hint of pride and arrogance, of putting down others.
If Pope Francis is in Heaven, it is a demonstration of God's great Love and Mercy. That 'escape' by Francis to the tomb of St Pius X might have been very important. One, perhaps entirely unintended, fruit of the Bergoglian papacy is an innoculation against the day-to-day sayings of even a Pope. Many have become more aware that the doctrinal Truths of the Church rest in the Gospels, the letters of Saint Paul and Acts and that they cannot change.
Yes a saint, I believe. We all makes mistakes. We are all sinners. There are mistakes and there are mistakes . We all make them. Everyone does.
I woke in the night with my thumb in great pain. I couldn’t bend it without pain and it clicked in the manner of a trigger finger. I prayed that I might have a saint to help me and ran through a few names. Then into my mind came the image of Cardinal Pell. I was surprised but knew of a miracle already with a drowned child coming back to life. So I prayed to God asking Pell’s intercession. I knew I should get out of bed and dig out the old finger stall I had for my other thumb to stabilise it and reduce pain but couldn’t face getting out of bed. Resigned to waking up with pain I fell asleep and when I woke there was no pain! Thumb still isn’t right but it’s a lot better. Well, it might be a coincidence but I’m thinking Cdl Pell had something to do with it. I hope so as I need many friends in heaven
My husband and I came to a similar conclusion recently: that Pope Francis was the pope for the times then; it is because of him that many of us learned to seek that small, still, Heavenly voice we are often forsake for other imperious ones.
Thanks so much for posting this. I'm so glad you're out of pain. If his intercession could save a drowned child, then I too am going to him now for my eldest child who's going through a dark valley now.
How wonderful! I am sure the Holy Spirit inspired you. I must try this the next time I am in need. I would not be the least surprised if we hear of many miracles shortly. Cardinal Pell, Martyr of the Church pray for us. Cardinal Zen too, although he's not dead yet. Bless him.## Bishop Strickland too, bless him too https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-voices/cardinal-george-pell-saint
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/...on-for-miraculous-survival-of-arizona-toddler Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney this week credited the apparently miraculous survival of an Arizona toddler to the intercession of Cardinal George Pell. According to the newspaper The Australian, Fisher said at a book event on March 26 that he had learned that an 18-month-old boy had been discharged from a hospital in Phoenix after going 52 minutes without breathing following a fall into a pool. The boy, named Vincent, “stopped breathing for 52 minutes,” Fisher said at the Australian launch of a new biography about Cardinal George Pell at Campion College near Parramatta. “His parents prayed for the intercession of Cardinal Pell,” he continued. “The boy survived and came off life support free of any damage to brain or lungs or heart. He’s fine now and his doctors are calling it a miracle.” The boy’s uncle, a Catholic priest, contacted Father Joseph Hamilton, Pell’s former secretary in Rome, to ask for prayers during the approximate 10-day hospitalization. Hamilton told The Australian that the family had met the late cardinal when he visited Phoenix in December 2021 to promote his three-volume “Prison Journal,” written during his 13-month imprisonment for historic child sexual abuse, a conviction later unanimously overturned by Australia’s highest court. Pell had also celebrated a White Mass for medical professionals in Phoenix. The cardinal died from cardiac arrest following a hip replacement surgery in Rome on Jan. 10, 2023. He was 81. The Catholic Church usually waits a minimum of five years after death to consider opening a cause for beatification. Once a process — which can take years, decades, or longer — is open, one verified miracle is needed to declare a person “blessed,” the last step before he or she can be declared a canonized saint. The Church subjects miracles submitted in a beatification cause to rigorous scrutiny and examination by medical professionals to exclude any natural or scientific reasons for healings before pronouncing them to be miracles received through the prayerful intercession of a virtuous man or woman.
