Posted on 11/07/2013 4:01:50 PM PST by NYer
The praise for Pope Francis since becoming the leader of the Catholic Church has been consistent over the last several months. Catholics and Protestants alike have showered him with praise for not only his pro-life position but his willingness to show extended love and support for the disabled.
Just days after getting international acclaim for letting a teen with Down Syndrome take a spin in the Popemobile, Pope Francis is drawing accolades for showing love to a disabled man covered in boils.The Pope wasted no time in kissing and blessing the man.
Bill Hallowell at The Blaze has more on what happened:
On Wednesday, Pope Francis took the time to do one simple thing that has now captivated the globe: He embraced and prayed with a man who was covered in tumors in St. Peter’s Square.
The encounter between the pontiff and the unnamed individual reportedly unfolded after Pope Francis addressed his general audience and the man approached the Catholic leader and asked to be blessed.
The afflicted individual reportedly suffers from neurofibromatosis, a disease described by the Mayo Clinic as a “genetic disorder that disturbs cell growth in your nervous system, causing tumors to form on nerve tissue.”
Ping!
The Pope is only doing what Jesus taught Christians to do.
Proud to be Catholic. My church is about love of God’s people.
Believe it or not, this is “controversial.” There are suggestions that he should be acting as if he’s in a biological war zone and have no close contact with anyone.
Pope Francis can be confusing with words, but there’s nothing confusing about this image. Prayers for Pope Francis, and prayers this man he is blessing is healed!
I’m not Catholic but I think it was pretty neat.
Same here... not a Catholic, but this Pope is a good man. I find it disturbing that there are Catholics on here that sprew hateful things about him... when h shows time and time again that he is a humble and loving person.
Just following the example of St. Damien the Leper of Molokai - who in turn was laboring in the vineyard of the Lord by caring for the sick and untouchables. Love of God and of neighbor is the hallmark of true Christians. Pope Francis is the real deal. Just showing the light of Jesus Christ to the world.
Folks who are anti-Christian will perhaps quit calling all of us Christians hypocrites now. Although I would not make a bet on it.
I think of Christ touching the leper with this incident.
Totally against what the Pharisee law was.
And this picture tends to alarm the medical people in my opinion.
Let's not forget Mother Marianne Cope and Mother T 
It has been and is still done by many who are known to God alone... all over the world. Who go about their work quietly, with Gods help, with all types of charity. May God bless them.
And who can forget John Paul II going to the leper colony in Japan... I heard he kissed each one of them.
Many have been and are being martyred today as well. Please keep them in your prayers.
You seem to be painting with a broad brush against “medical people”. Your opinion is wrong. This old nurse could be considered a medical person and am not alarmed..Salvation, you don’t usually make such calumny against people you don’t know. Just my opinion, but expect better from you based on your many posts. Dr. and nurses daily deal with wounds that have odors and rot that would make you vomit. Especially those with gangrene wounds. Or as one of my nurse friends did, using tweezers pick maggots out of a poor souls wound, found by police laying in an alley and took him to the emergency room.
Bump.
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