[Lilllabettt]

When I say he is Christ on Earth, I am really quoting my favourite Saint of all time, Caterina of Siena. She was a third order Dominican.

At the age of six, she had a vision of Christ Jesus dressed as the Bishop of Rome. At the age of 13 she became a hermit, leaving her room only to attend Mass. At the age of 15 she experienced a mystical espousal to Christ, after which she left her cloister to serve the sick and the poor.

Unrefined and uneducated, she nevertheless became a renowned teacher. With humility and charity, she zealously corrected the spineless misbehaviour of the Popes during their self-imposed exile in Avignon. She almost singlehandedly ended the Babylonian Captivity, and worked tirelessly to prevent Schisms of the Church in France and in the Italian states.

She had a mystical vision in which all people, Christian and pagan alike, marched into the wounded heart of Christ and were washed in the Divine Blood. Thereafter she especially abhorred disunity, and found a cure for it in obedience to the Bishop of Rome, whom she lovingly called "Daddy." In between her scoldings of him, she wrote that he was "Sweet Christ on Earth."

For the last several years of her life, she could not digest anything except the Holy Eucharist; she died at the age of 33.

Truly, a remarkable lady and a great squasher of corruption!

[kosta50]

I am not going to say anything about a woman who loved God and was canonized in the Roman Catholic Church. But, as you know, we all worship in imperfect knowledge. Her visions, as the visions of others, are best left without a comment.

However, the Pope is not Christ on earth.