[mlizzy]

Padre Pio said: "Some people are so foolish that they think they can go through life without the help of the Blessed Mother." "Love the Madonna and pray the rosary, for her rosary is the weapon against the evils of the world today." "All graces given by God pass through the Blessed Mother." With great tenderness, he always spoke of the Blessed Mother as "my dear little Mother." He always said: "The Blessed Mother is the Mother of all Mothers." On Padre Pio's death bed, his final words that he kept repeating were: "Jesus-Mary; Jesus-Mary; Jesus-Mary."

Why would someone dismiss so quickly the words of a stigmatic (Padre Pio bore the wounds of Christ for 50 years; his body lies incorrupt).

[steve86]

I hadn’t seen either of those photos before — thanks.

[caww]

I am just going to say this since you keep posting this guy with his hands like that.....this is the same pose Satanic worshippers take when they worship. If you put a black robe on this character he even looks like one of them. I am just saying it is not exactly a character I would put any weight in what he states....no matter what title any church might give him. He is one creepy looking character....and so is the fact of his story.

[Salvation]

Think of the pain Padre Pio was in all the time, yet he never complained.

[RachelFaith]

You put enough carpet cleaner in any body and it won’t decay for 100 years either.

Incoruptable.

HOCUS POCUS!

[ConservativeMind]

We are told, even by fellow FReepers, to not accept the words of Catholic Archbishops and Cardinals who say that possessing nuclear weapons or using them is “a sin”. However, we are to believe the words of someone who supposedly appeared to have bloody hands, akin to what Christ likely had? How is any Catholic, let alone others, to know WHO or WHAT to believe when we hear this sort of tripe from you and others?

What we were told on the nuclear weapon thread was that only words straight from the Vatican were legitimate—all else is opinion. So your words and those of “Padre” are merely hearsay and opinion to us and your own fellow Catholics on the matter of Mary until all hear otherwise. Right?

There have been a lot of people die in the history of this world. Why we are to believe some stigmataed guy’s words over that of what the Bible - even the Catholic’s own Bible - says, is beyond logic.

Not even the Catholic church thinks their “traditions” ought to be considered “Canon”, so this tells me that someone at the Vatican at least has enough sense about them to limit this crud about Mary and the “reverence of the Saints” and such somewhere short of Hell.

May God see that and go lighter on them.