Father Gruner was an incredible Priest. I know of Father Kramer but I would definitely steer clear of him speaking of Father Gruner that way.
Oh, I'm no great shakes. Maybe, I'm just sticking my head in the sand to avoid yet another disappointment. I' ve decided, whatever my motivation, to wait for sufficient facts to land before jumping to conclusions. You might very well be the one proven right, but this is yet undecided. I'd think right now that the odds are 70:30 in your favour. On the other hand, Trump started off doing great things, or so it seemed. Now Gaza seems nearer wipeout than ever, with Trump only interested in the welfare of privileged Jewish University students, war with Iran seems an increasing possibility, there will be no peace deal in the Ukraine, he seems to be jumping all over the place with his economic policies, we still await the Epstein papers... My point is that if a promising start doesn't necessarily deliver, maybe we can hope that an unpromising start might go better. With the Help of God.
While PLXIV is making some moves which are not exactly comforting, I don't feel too concerned. When it comes to major events happening, the current one of people continually converting and communicating online is massive. It's like the whole thing of "too big to rig" with the elections. When enough people actually learn what the faith is and share it, the heterodox clergy can't push globalist christianity™ because people know better.
It’s why Garabandal is so significant. Knowing what’s coming also keeps the faith. It doesn’t matter how broken our Church is. As long as we prepare those around us to understand all the insanity was prophesied, and that we must continue to live good lives, we will win over the evil one. He wants us to despair and give up. Fat chance buddy, just bring it on. Christ is always the winner, Pope or no Pope.
I recently went into the history of all the Pope Leos on Wikipedia, I intend to go through all the Popes. What is crazy is how often the Papacy is compromised for power. What is amazing is how God works through the Papacy, no matter how broken it always comes back. So you are right to say evil wont win.
There was one thing that always surprised me when I visited Rome and that was the banks of the River Tiber. I hate crowds and love to be alone and Rome is such a busy, rushing place. However if you go down the steps you can walk along the by the river for ages on your own. Very few people ever think of walking there. Amazing. It's almost spooky it is so quiet. I'd love to visit Rome again.
the Pope as a young missionary in Peru, with a group of happy children many people from Peru are digging up their old photos with him and posting online
You saying this brought back wonderful memories. I used to walk those banks alone too, when I lived in Rome.
I sometimes think if I were to live in Rome a thousand years I would still be discovering new things. One thing that was striking was that in so many Churches I went into contained the actual body of a saint, sometimes incorrupt. Although I think some of the bodies appeared pretty corrupt to me. I cried when I saw the incorrupt body of Pope St John 23rd a great favourite of mine.
My wife and I visited Rome for a weekend in 2001. Naturally, we went to the Vatican (on the Saturday). The Thursday before we flew there I was rectally examining a heifer for pregnancy for a client, when she made a little jump and landed one of her back feet on my right big toe. I went to Rome with a swollen big toe, bruised and very blackened, the kind of surface haematoma that takes weeks to clear, in my experience. Wouldn't be doing much walking, I thought. As I said, we went by bus to the Vatican and the body of St Pope John XXIII (he was still only Blessed then) was exposed on display in St Peter's. We shortly made our way back, by bus, to our hotel room and changed our sweaty clothes. I took off my socks to note that my toe was perfect. No swelling, no bruise, no blackening and, I realised, no pain. I walked the legs off my wife for the rest of the day, examining the glorious sights of Rome. Make of it what you will.
