Mom says son’s impromptu encounter with Pope Francis led to ‘miracle’ (catholicworldreport.com) Mom says son’s impromptu encounter with Pope Francis led to ‘miracle’ By CNA Staff January 8, 2022 Catholic News Agency News Briefs Rome, Italy, Jan 8, 2022 / 04:00 am (CNA). It was one of the viral Vatican moments of 2021: a boy in a black tracksuit, spectacles, and a face mask spontaneously walking up to greet Pope Francis in the middle of a general audience. But there was more to the impromptu encounter in October than met the eye: the 10-year-old suffered from epilepsy and autism. His health had recently declined so severely that doctors feared he might have a brain tumor. Paolo Bonavita was in Rome that day for medical tests. His mother, Elsa Morra, told CNA that the papal audience was followed by an inexplicable improvement in her son’s condition. “It’s a miracle,” she said. “It’s a miracle, for us, for my family.” More at link: Mom says son’s impromptu encounter with Pope Francis led to ‘miracle’ – Catholic World Report This reminds me too, no matter how one perceives Pope Francis, it seems a young couple talked to Him about the baby they were expecting, I forget the details but He seemed to say, it would be born healthy which it was.
I accept you might be an admirer of Pope Francis, but he's still not deserving of the pronoun 'Him'! Not to worry, of course, it's a typo. Miracles do occur, and Pope Francis is the holder of the office of Pope, an office which, logically enough, is always likely to be associated with the miraculous. While the incident has the potential to reflect upon the dignity of the office of the Papacy, it is not necessarily relevant to the state of sanctity or otherwise of the individual who is Jorge Bergolglio.
