Rowina (28 Aug 2013)
"Again, the Pope,
truths and imaginations about him"
I do not like it, as others do not, that the Pope is a
Jesuit. I was familiar with some Jesuit problems when I
lived in another city, and all of this forced me
to stop going to church. I don't have a good church now,
and I don't expect ever to do so, but my observation, having
lived in quite a few places, is that
some Catholic dioceses are better than others (as far as
adhering to the Gospel and teaching scripture).
As far as the Pope goes, apart from the Jesuit problem, I don't
think we can "imagine" into him things which are not necessarily
there (although they might be!--it's a mystery)/
The most glaring imagination is connected with the Prophecy of
St. Malachy, the medieval bishop in Ireland. He said the
last pope would rule over his people in perilous times,
or times of trouble (I don't have the exact quote before me, but
I have heard it many times). This does not say that he
will, as Joe put it, "defect". Or that he would become the
Beast. Or anything actually bad at all. It says he
will preside in very bad times. Could this simply be
presiding in the horrors going on now? Are we not living
in a time of
incredible trouble NOW, which will get worse? The
situation in the Middle East (tinder) the widespread economic
collapse threatening, plagues getting more threatening, morals
collapsing, violent earthchanges...all terrible times.
There have been other terrible times but this must be one of the
worst, and because Israel is in the land, we can expect
prophetic end times events to occur, and this is known to the
pope. Malachy Martin, another Malachy who lived in modern
times, drew a picture in "Windswept House" of a Pope who lived
in perilous times and was himself "highjacked", and this
characterization may have been taken from more than one pope,
including a pope who was future to Malachy Martin's time.
When the Pope sighed heavily, as you reported, Joe, after coming
up from visiting Peter's grave, some cardinals "imagined" that
the spirit of St. Peter had entered him.
This is another opinion on their part, not necessarily
true. Maybe he signed because he thought of the great
responsibility facing him. Maybe he sighed because he was
thinking of the martyrdom of St. Peter. Who knows?
He has plenty to sign heavily about. But it's also
possible these cardinals guessed right. We cannot know.
I too have questioned some of Francis' teachings of late, as has
been recorded on the Doves. And he may be the False
Prophet but I think that is unknown, at least to me.
My belief is that the church will be gone before either the AC
or the False Prophet will be revealed fully, although there are
certainly candidates.
I'm hoping we will be at Home before the world knows fully about
these things.