Posted on 10/02/2006 6:07:20 PM PDT by kellynla
Doctors who operated on Pope John Paul after a 1981 assassination attempt were convinced he would die under the knife, his ex-secretary says in a new book.
Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, now archbishop of Krakow in Poland, also says in a memoir due to be published next year that efforts to save the pope were hampered by a series of glitches.
Brief excerpts of "My Life with Karol" were made available on Monday by the Italian publisher Rizzoli ahead of its presentation at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week.
In a chapter called "Those Two Bullets", Dziwisz recalls his feelings when Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca shot the Pope while his open jeep was being driven through St Peter's Square on May 13, 1981 at the start of his weekly general audience.
"I tried to hold him up (after he was hit by the second bullet) but it was as if he was letting himself go sweetly," writes Dziwisz, who served Karol Wojtyla for nearly four decades from the time the future pontiff was a bishop in Poland.
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wasn't his survival supposed to be one of the Fatima predictions?
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It was way over the line, and some people talked.
Whether Italian prosecutors could prove it in an Italian court, lacking the necessary witnesses, doesn't interest me in the least.
Do you mean that the doctors got it wrong? Say it ain't so!
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God bless him .. and I do believe it was a miracle of Our Blessed Lady, to whom he was such a loving, loyal and devoted son.
I'll never forget that day, I was in 5th Grade at Franklyn Sherman Elementry in McLean,VA when my Teacher ran around screaming "The Pope's Been Shot"....
Miracle? I say BIG TIME!
Why is it when something unexpected happens that is good, it's a miracle, but if it's bad God doesn't get blamed for it? And if it turns out later that the bad had good effects, God starts getting credit again?
I don't see how people can take this stuff seriously at all.
I sympathize—I'd like to get more credit for stuff in my life, too. But unfortunately, I didn't create the universe, and I try to give credit where it's due.
With all due respect to his life's vocation, we can't dismiss the long-term effects of an athletic youth.
Reagan and the Holy Father - giants of their time. Both had Divine missions, and both received Divine protection in the face of satanic attack.
Just my opinion, of course...
Yeah,True,True
(steely)
Thanks. :-)
Let's not forget to see the wood for the trees. He was shot by an islamofascist who has said he did it for islam. He may have been paid by the russians but he did it for mohammed (pigs be upon him).
No.
are you sure? I thought there was some linkage to his survival, and the 3rd prediction.
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