Posted on 02/04/2017 1:26:15 PM PST by heterosupremacist
Sixtus V: One day the pope was invited to witness a “miracle” in one of Rome’s churches: a cross that bled. When he arrived, he realized that there was nothing miraculous occurring and requested a hatchet. Standing before the cross, he said, “As Christ I adore you; as wood I cut you.” And indeed he discovered the deception; within the cross were sponges soaked in blood. The pope’s intuition gained him a reputation among the Romans who would say, “Like Pope Sixtus, who doesn’t even pardon Jesus!”
Leo XIII: The pope had filled the Vatican Gardens with animals that had been given him as gifts during the pontificate. One day, as he was walking through the gardens, a gazelle practically toppled him as it ran away. Everyone accompanying the pope was alarmed, but the pope immediately and calmly said, “When have you seen a ‘leo’ (lion) get afraid of a defenseless gazelle?”"
Another of Leo XIII: One day the pope had an audience with a Spanish gentleman, who, filled with gratitude for his chance to speak with the pope, told him, I thank you Your Holiness for this great opportunity. Just think, days before Pius IX died, he also granted me an audience.” And Pope Leo responded, “If I would have known that you were so dangerous for popes, I would have postponed our meeting for a few years!”
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John Paul II ruled.
POPE JOHN: "About half."
Pope Marx is a Joke, but somehow never funny.
As a Catholic this is so sad. JP II was truly a man of God and a defender of freedom. Much missed.
I totally concur. It was a high point for both Catholics and non-Catholics.
Bingo.
St . Theresa of Avila in one of her darker moments bemoaned her fate. She suffered from intense depression and pain due to a medical condition. She then beheld a vision of Christ, who said, “But Theresa, this is the way I treat all my friends”. And the Theresa said “and that’s why you have so few of them”.
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Re : Post #8
True story - the people who accompanied her warned her against taking such a journey because of her ill health. She was thrown from her horse in a torrential rainstorm into a deep puddle of mud - She then beheld a vision of Christ, who said, “But Theresa, this is the way I treat all my friends”. And the Theresa said “and that’s why you have so few of them”.
HA! Nothing but love for that girl...
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