Posted on 06/07/2017 8:38:21 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The First Lady met with the cardinal and the Slovenian ambassador after her visit with Pope Francis.
Since the meeting of Donald and Melania Trump with Pope Francis, there has been much speculation about whether Melania is Catholic. She asked the pope to bless her rosary and also spent time in prayer before a statue of the Virgin Mary, causing plenty of media voices to wonder about her faith.
Some hours after their visit with the pope, as we noted here, a spokesperson for the First Lady, Stephanie Grisham, confirmed that indeed, Melania Trump professes the Catholic faith, though she didn’t say when or where Melania had been baptized. (Keep in mind that when Melania was born in 1970, Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia, under Communist rule, and baptisms in those years would have been in secret).
Now, an article published by the Slovenian edition of Vatican Radio gives us an interview with Cardinal Franc Rodé, the retired prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. The cardinal is also Slovenian, born there in 1934.
In the interview, the cardinal reports that Melania spoke with him of her baptism in Raka (her mother’s hometown), close to Melania’s birthplace of Novo Mesto. Though Melania didn’t confirm the year she was baptized, she presumably received the sacrament as a child.
The cardinal noted that Melania pointed out the curious coincidence that she was baptized on the same date as her husband’s birthday.
Here is an Aleteia translation of the section of the cardinal’s interview that dealt with this matter:
Vatican Radio, Wednesday, May 24 — Today at 12:30, Cardinal Franc Rodé and his secretary, Matej Pavlič, along with the Slovenian ambassador to Rome, Tomaž Kunstelj, met with Melania Trump, wife of US President Donald Trump, at the residence of the US ambassador to Italy. The meeting occurred after her return from her visit to Bambino Gesu Hospital.
The Slovenian dessert potica, and the Rosary
We first asked Mrs. Melania how the pope was. She said that he had made a very good impression on her, that he had seemed very relaxed, and she told us how he had asked her if she serves potica to her husband. She answered him that she loves potica, though she didn’t in fact answer the pope’s question. An interesting thing is that she brought with her her own rosary and asked the pope to bless it. That’s what was seen on TV. Thus, the First Lady of the United States prays the Rosary. That means that the most beautiful thing she brought from Slovenia she still has in the United States.
Her son Barron speaks Slovenian
Then I asked her how she feels in this new role as First Lady. She said that she fulfills her obligations and is aware of her responsibilities and that she tries to be at her husband’s side. But, she added, beyond all of this I am first of all a mom. Mother to her 11-year-old son, Barron, who is growing and who will soon be taller than her. I also asked her, “Does Baron speak Slovenian?” “Of course, of course,” she said. “With his grandparents, his grandmother and grandfather who live in New York, he always speaks in Slovenian. When he finishes the school year, he’ll go from New York to Washington, where he already has friends.”
The coincidence of Melania’s baptism date and President Trump’s birthday
I spoke of her baptism and she said, “Yes, that was in Raka” (a town near where she grew up, Sevnica in Slovenia). I commented that I knew the date the parish priest, Franc Čampa, had baptized her; I knew him very well; he was the pastor for many years in Mengeš. Mrs. Melania commented, “Something interesting is that my baptism was June 14, exactly the day of the birthday of my husband, the president of the United States.”
I told her that I knew Fr. Čampa really well — that he was truly a good priest, pious, educated, and very, very close to his people. And Melania answered me: “My mother spoke of this priest in the same way, just as you describe him.”
blah blah rip on Jesus’s mom - how about we bring back Michelle Obama - will that make you happy.
which is a statement that hardly anyone could disagree with.
You replied to that however, with;
I was not specifically claiming anyone had.
The rest of your commentary is not worth addressing in detail. You are in no position to give orders, or to tell me what to think, say, or do.
How about yourself, though, leave off ENTIRELY making FR religion forum thread all about individual persons HERE?
Seriously.
"rip on Jesus's mom"
And I did that...how?
I said that she was not God, and that she could not save anyone.
In your own opinion, are either of those two conditions incorrect?
If not, then logically enough, we are in agreement as for those two 'conditions', and I was not criticizing, "ripping on" as you put it, "Jesus's mom".
What business is it of yours, or anyone’s, where Melania’s parents live?
You are obsessed with “Lifestyles of the Trump Family”.
Get lost...you look for reasons to attack me
go make your what business is it of yours on these kinds of threads
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3558877/posts?q=1&;page=1
btw, what business is it of yours on whether Melania was raised and baptized a Catholic..that IS why you clicked on this thread
totally agree with you Jane...
Seems she is on every post today!!!
Its always the same thing when people go after Catholics - and its absolute BS. And by the way the Bible tells us Jesus does listen to his mom -
You should read that part about wedding at Cana, where she (the party) runs out of wine - son do your thing. Its not my time. Son, make the wine. Okay mom. I'm sure its in the Chick tracks you must have seen it.
WOW what a lie. Count how many threads there are today..and how many posts...and then how many I have written
Why lie like that?
Not just today. Every DAY!
That is a lie.
For example, there are twenty threads on my front page at the moment. I have posted on two of them.
And i Have not posted to every thread...or every post today.
What a ridiculous accusation
Nonsense!
YOU post on a public forum...with almost ALL of your posts negative towards Trump family (look at your tagline) and your posts, for reference...yet, you can’t take replies?
I RARELY post to you. I’ve noticed that when folks DO post to you, you tend to get VERY sensitive and snap back at them.
Maybe you should stick to fashion posts. Your drive-by, antiTrump posts are tiring and have been noted by many, for some time, now.
Maybe YOU should just give it a rest, and stop whining when you get called out...by several.
It just gets old.
Nothing positive - with the exception of a few fashion threads/posts sprinkled in, as cover.
So why is Melania’s religion ANY OF YOUR BUSINESS???
“YOU post on a public forum...with almost ALL of your posts negative towards Trump family (look at your tagline) and your posts, for reference...yet, you can’t take replies?”
This is such a lie.
Give me links to all of my posts today that are negative towards Trump’s family.
PSSST...even the post today about Melania’s parents is not a negative. Why do you pretend that it is?
Here is one of the few posts I made about Trump’s family today
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3558762/posts?page=30#30
How is agreeing with Trump tightening things up ...a negative.
Your posts about me are a lie.
I do post negative things. That is not a lie. But to say all that I post is negative is a flat out lie.
Nor is the post on this thread that generated your personal attack on me a negative. There is nothing wrong with that post.
Instead, you said,
And you know this -- how? You know my motivations could be put in the terms you chose to identify those -- how? Based on what?
I "went after Catholics" you say? No, I did not. What I did was speak towards religious beliefs, and perceptions. That is different.
In the past I've seen comments deleted for reason of including scatological reference, including that very abbreviation. What you said about myself, and my alleged motivations -- approaches being in that sort of realm. You said it, you used the term, not me.
I have read that already, and more than once, including having gained further understanding regarding the setting. One thing for a certainty is that the texts do not indicate that Mary said as you put it; son do your thing in those words, or even implicitly that being what Mary was saying. TO arrive at that interpretation is to impose upon the text anachronistically Mariology that developed only much later, centuries after time of Christ, and his chosen apostles.
Materials from that source have long been banned from FR. Mentions of that source are for the most part also banned. Using that as place where someone is alleged to (accused of?) having gotten their info -- if that is what you were intending, is also out-of-bounds for a variety of reasons.
I see this was posted in "bloggers and personal" rather than "religion".
I guess you can use the term "B.S." here. Then again, if so, I could fire that right back, aimed squarely at your own comments/portion of a comment.
It would be best to not aim things at persons themselves. But hey, I can do it too --if you were to insist upon it.
Please, don't tempt me.
Do you ever ask your mother, or other people, to pray for you?
Yes?
That means you think your mother is God, right?
Do you ever ask your mother, or other people, to pray for you?
Yes?
That means you think your mother is God, right?
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