[Salvation]

I do think that it is going to be next to impossible for the Pope to get a fair shake/fair report from most of the media. We'll have to wait and see.

I am bumping the prayer thread for the Pope with the links that come up rather than collect them.

[Double] NOVENA FOR POPE BENEDICT XVI [Ecumenical]

[OpusatFR]

Whenever Benedict appears as an anodyne in contrast to the culture of death, the shrillness increases.

Look at Lent and Easter or just at the sheer magnitude of overreaction to any of his statements on faith and the world. Look at his election.

He is the catalyst for bringing the laity and clergy back into conformity in Christ, and the media is just the tool of the Evil One.

They can fight, but this change is inexorable.

*and yeah, I’m saying the Novena. Especially for this mission. Fortunately, I’m sick so I have the happiness of offering my hiccup for Benedict by asking to join my discomfort with Jesus’s cross.