Posted on 05/05/2010 10:48:55 AM PDT by markomalley
"Fatima is a particularly significant place for this Pope," said Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi on Tuesday, noting that it was also a destination for two former Popes. The Holy Father has a thorough knowledge of the history of the Marian sanctuary, he added.
Fr. Lombardi held a press conference at the Vatican to prepare the media for the Pope's next trip out of the Vatican. He will be visiting Portugal from May 11-14.
The spokesman referred to the Pope's stop in Fatima on May 13 as the highlight and "heart" of the upcoming four-day trip to Portugal, according to Vatican Radio. But, he pointed out, Benedict XVI will not be the first Pope to visit the Marian shrine.
Two other Pontiffs have been to Fatima. In 1967, the sanctuary hosted Paul VI, and John Paul II visited in 1982, 1991 and 2000, at which time the visionaries Jacinta and Francesco were beatified.
The Portuguese shrine is not unfamiliar to Pope Benedict, since as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger extensively studied the message of Fatima. Fr. Lombardi said on Tuesday that the Pope has been involved with history of the Marian sanctuary in a "very deep, personal way."
It was him, for example, who was called upon to give a theological perspective when the third secret of Fatima was made public in 2000.
The Vatican spokesman said that the Holy Father will also deliver an intense message during his Fatima visit. Upon his arrival at the sanctuary on May 12, he will remember John Paul II and the 29th anniversary of the assassination attempt that nearly took his life on May 13, 1981.
This visit marks the Holy Father's 15th Apostolic Journey abroad in his five years and is his first to Portugal as Pope.
During today's general audience, the Holy Father greeted the people of Portugal in their language, telling them that he will be there this coming weekend at the invitation of the president of the nation and the episcopal conference.
He said he was "happy to be able to visit the 'land of Holy Mary'" on the 10th anniversary of the beatification of the shepherd children.
According to Portuguese press reports, local police are planning for a cumulative total of 450,000 people at the celebrations in Lisbon, Fatima and Portugal during the four-day visit.
I really have a moral disagreement with "playing to the lurkers." I guess I think it's dishonest.
Communication is a miracle. It is also extremely difficult, and I think we have to make a great effort to be clear.
It's related to the whole question of whether lying is an ability. The remarkable achievement is telling the truth, for crying out loud!
So to add to the difficulty of speaking the truth the pretense that I am speaking to you when I am really using you as a punching bad in hopes to impress or to influence some third party ... That just seems morally suspect and imprudent.
>>Sorry, but I refuse to be put in the Etherspace version of the Warsaw Ghetto<<
You’re there.
Outstanding!
Good points.
However,
yes and no, depending.
Christ was rather fierc with the RELIGIOUS rulers of His earthly pathed days.
Well put, imho.
However, the FR anti-Catholics aren't smart enough to realize what ultimately happened to the creators of the Warsaw Ghetto.
What nonsense, indeed.
. . . except . . . for
an abundance of rabid clique folks hereon and many such many of us Prottys have met in our daily lives.
Only if I put a Caucus Label on everything I post on the RF.
Post 4 hunh?
The SHOUTING PAPIST BIGOTS
BEGIN SHOUTING outrageousness in many of their
THREAD TITLES.
So do Prottys
DOH!
BecomING?
. . . I think that happened about 1600 years ago at the beginning of the Institution.
I have answered to you, more than once, that He was The Lord Jesus Christ.
We are not.
I have noted the very great frequency with which you use the word “fierce” in referring to human exchanges.
Not once do I see the word “fierce” being used by the Lord in regard to His counsels about how we are to interact with others.
While we may emphasize one side of the focus in our energy and majority intent . . . at least some of us are seriously invested in
BOTH/AND.
“...bigots....”
This is a word followers of Rome use to describe Christians who tell Biblical Truth, which Roman doctrines cannot counter. Rome cannot discount the Truth so it must attack, demonize, and tarnish the messenger.
“.....post their hate...”
Hate is a word followers of Rome use for Bible verses and interpretations that show the doctrines of Rome to be false. Again we see that when Rome cannot discount the Truth it must attack, demonize, and tarnish the message.
“...sects so small...”
Followers of Rome like to believe that the amount of worshipers one has in one’s edifice determines if that edifice is Christian. This is obviously not true as one can see there are huge numbers of people that follow the false doctrines of Asia, the Middle East, etc.
“If we did not respond...”
If those who follow Rome did not post their blasphemous and idolatrous articles on FR, Christians here wouldn’t be in a position to tell the truth about those articles.
“Give them nothing...”
I actually am in favor of this. If Vaticanians would stop posting idolatrous and blasphemous articles on FR I wouldn’t have to see their idolatry and blasphemy anymore. Also, and much much more important, lurkers and fence-sitters won’t be in danger of being lead to damnation by Rome here on FR anymore. This would cause me to give a great shout of Praise Yahweh!!!!
LOL! What an odd mishmash the Basilica is. Most of the mosaics are beautiful, but some of the art is absolutely, atrociously ugly.
Then again you could always stay away from Catholic topic threads and keep your head buried in the sand.....or maybe the Holy Spirit is guiding you to these threads to expose you to the truth.
He acted it out vs labeling it
in many of His relations with others . . . including Peter on occasion . . . including Paul publically with Peter on one occasion.
However, most of you have found that most of the time, when I’m treated civilly, I respond in kind. And, usually, I’m quite civil initially with new folks or even with old antagonists on a new thread.
Now there's a likely scenario...The Holy Spirit leads us away from the Truth of the scriptures to become Catholics...
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