[wideawake]

Did Jesus know everything He had to suffer? Of course. Yet at Gethsemane He was sorrowful and sweating in trepidation, asking His Father three times if the cup could pass from His lips.

If the Lord could be so discomposed as the hour of truth approached, do you really think Our Lady could not have been similarly discomposed?

I'm not sure if either you or John Vennari have the spiritual acumen to engage in such extravagant criticism of the Holy Father. Perhaps a more prayerful, lest troll-like approach would be better.

Catherine of Siena you guys are not.

[IrishBrigade]

I’m not sure if either you or John Vennari have the spiritual acumen to engage in such extravagant criticism of the Holy Father.

...idle speculation on your part...should a pontiff go off the deep end, and make utterances that are going south, extravagant criticism is the least he should receive, given his spiritual responsibility...

...of course, this particular pronouncement of his doesn’t really go too far south, in my humble estimation...

[ebb tide]

I'm not sure if either you or John Vennari have the spiritual acumen to engage in such extravagant criticism of the Holy Father.

On the contrary; I'm not sure if the Bishop of Rome has the spiritual acumen to engage in mind-reading the Blessed Mother.