Yes it was, particularly for it being said on this forum. It might not be quite as funny anywhere else...
Yet the headline (which I *think* we have seen previous mention of the information therein? it rings a bell like that) still fills my heart with dread at the thought of it...
The martyr pope..?
If so...would that bring peace to some (by being integral to eventually bringing them to Christ)...for whom there is no other "way"? Must it be?
Ok, I'm getting ahead of things here. I cannot say the Lord has revealed anything to me concerning it (though of other deaths and occurrences He has at various times past) and I was just thinking upon how in today's world there are many being martyred for their faith (in Christ), killed for not much any other reason than they are identified by those around themselves as being "Christian".
This does appear to myself to becoming more "likely" as time marches on, as surely as it is being suffered by some, right now.
Oh don’t think I haven’t thought of martyrdom. But I was thinking of it in a much more cynical way. You see, Francis could then be canonized along with Paul VI.