[agere_contra]

I met a Italian priest who met Padre Pio when he (the priest) was a boy. He remembered the astonishing scent of the wounds.

[OpusatFR]

It is a battleground. Even the great of the earth, those who plot and plunder are on one side or the other.

It is headlines like these that ground me and have me scratching my head over the pride infecting humanity, my own included, and causing untold misery:

“Forbes Calls Goldman CEO Holier Than Mother Teresa.”

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/forbes-calls-goldman-ceo-holier-than-mother-teresa-20130920

As my grandmother said, “A shroud has no pockets.”

I would add that all graves hold decaying remains. Not all the power, money, prestige, influence, appearance can stop that.

St. Pio is a great witness to God’s majesty and grace.

[.45 Long Colt]

If you act now you should have plenty of time to get your idol before Christmas.

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8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods. 9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? 10 You observe days and months and seasons and years! 11 I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain. (Ephesians 4:8-11)

[GOP Poet]

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[GreyFriar]

Mark, Thank you for posting this. Padre Pio is well deserved of sainthood.

[lastchance]

Can you make this a Caucus thread?

[Zionist Conspirator]

I find the problem with Catholics is that they tend to be either over-devout and accept all manner of suspicious phenomena (rosaries turning to gold is one of them) or over-sceptical, looking askance at someone like Padre Pio who was obviously not an intellectual like themselves.

I find Catholicism much like the political Left. It seems to be an extremely bifurcated culture which consists of, on the one hand, skeptical modernist intellectuals, and on the other, multitudes of illiterate peasants. Also like the Left, the only ethnicity left out of their beautiful rainbow is the lowly redneck, who is singled out as an irredeemable, inherently anti-Catholic creature against which Catholicism defines itself.

It's very hard to understand what holds these radically disparate classes together, although both reject the historicity of the first eleven chapters of Genesis. After all . . . they don't want to be like those awful rednecks!