Dear Doves,
We live
during times of great deception. In
the story below, a leading Cardinal
reports
some
strange goings on during miraculous
proceedings which elected unknown
Argentine Pope
Francis
to power. I don't know the second
alleged miracle. What have any of
you discovered?
Agape,
Michael Curtiss
Pope Francis elected after supernatural 'signs' in the Conclave, says Cardinal
The surprise election of Pope Francis came about because of a series of supernatural “signs”, one of the leading Cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church has claimed.
4:57PM
BST 14 May 2013
Cardinal Christoph
Schönborn, the Archbishop of
Vienna, who was himself widely
tipped as a possible successor
to Pope Benedict, said he had
personally had two “strong
signs” that Cardinal Jorge Mario
Bergoglio was “the chosen one”
in the run up to vote.
He said only divine
intervention could explain the
speed with which the Argentine
Cardinal - who did not feature
on any of the main lists of
likely candidates compiled by
Vatican experts - was elected.
Speaking to an Anglican
conference in London, he also
said the Archbishop of
Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin
Welby, had a “strange
similarity” to the new Pope.
He said that the two
elections were a “little
miracle” and a “sign from the
Lord” that the two churches
should work towards closer
unity.
Addressing an audience of
5,000 people in the Royal Albert
Hall, at a conference organised
by the prominent Holy Trinity
Brompton church in west London,
he said that he was certain that
on the evening of March 12, as
the papal Conclave began, none
of the Cardinals had known who
would be chosen.
“It
was a tremendous experience of
the Holy Spirit,” he said.
“We
were driven by the Holy Spirit
to this man – he was sitting in
the last corner of the Sistine
Chapel: This man he is the
chosen one.”
He
added: “I received at least two
strong signs: one I can tell,
the other was in the Conclave I
can’t speak about – but real
signs of the Lord giving me
indication ‘he is the one’.”
The
Cardinal said that just after a
special mass before the Conclave
began he came across a couple
from Latin America who are
friends of his.
He
said: “I met them outside the
Basilica and I asked: ‘You have
the Holy Spirit, can you give me
advice for the Conclave that
will start in a few hours?’
“And
the woman whispered in my ear
‘Bergoglio’, and it hit me
really: if these people say
Bergoglio, that’s an indication
of the Holy Spirit.
“And
I’m sure many of us have
received similar signs during
the Conclave, it wouldn’t have
been possible to have this
election so soon and so
rapidly.”
To
applause, the Cardinal went on:
“You know there is a strange
similarity with your Archbishop
Justin, I hope so much that they
will meet soon.”
Laughing,
he added: “I don’t know the
secrets of the ‘conclave’ at
Lambeth Palace.
“But it looks like a little
miracle that he became the
Archbishop, so I think the Lord
as given us a great sign through
these two elections and other
signs and what I have deeply in
my heart … it is as if he would
say to the world ‘come home, I
wait for you’.”
The
Right Rev. Justin Welby,
Bishop of Durham and the new
Archbishop of Canterbury.
Photo by Matthew Lloyd/Getty
Images.