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The Roman exorcist Gabriele Amorth said that Pope Francis wanted a "poor church of the poor" like John Paul I. "I would not wish that he ends like Luciani". John Paul I died after only 33 days in the papacy

Father Gabriele Amorth, chief exorcist of the Diocese of Rome has warned the new Pope Francis about a quick death following the fate of Pope John Paul I. "The Masons have their branches everywhere, even in the Vatican, unfortunately," Amorth said in an interview with the Italian newspaper "Il Giornale", which the newspaper "Österreich" online reported.

Amorth said that the new Pope Francis wanted a "poor church of the poor" like John Paul I "I would not wish that he ends like Luciani," commented the chief exorcist, but the Freemasons aspire only after money and career, "they help each other," reported, "Österreich“" online. Father Gabriele maintains that they include the present Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, a Freemason, as well as President Giorgio Napolitano. In principle, all politicians in power are subordinate to the Freemasons and the world was dominated by seven or eight people who kept all the money in their hands, said the 88-year-old monk, who is believed to have carried out 70,000 successful exorcisms. Amorth alluded to Albino Luciani / Pope John Paul I, who died in 1978 just 33 days after his election as pope. An autopsy of his body was denied by the Vatican, which gave rise to numerous conspiracy theories. For example, the assessment was circulated that the Pope had been poisoned, because he wanted to expose corrupt transactions in the Vatican Bank.

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Quote of the day, from Pope Francis:
Francis of Assisi tells us we should work to build peace. But there is no true peace without truth. There cannot be true peace if everyone is his own criterion, if everyone can always claim exclusively his own rights, without at the same time caring for the good of others, of everyone, on the basis of the nature that unites every human being on the earth.
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1301340.htm

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http://blackbiretta.blogspot.ie/2013/03/papal-perspective.html
An interesting article on these pictures!

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This is our Catholic Church. I am so impressed!

Could anybody post this picture in MDM forum?

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This is our Catholic Church. I am so impressed!

Could anybody post this picture in MDM forum?
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I just did, probably be deleted!

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that's an incredible photo

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Here is the photo of the icon of the Madonna of Humility which Pope Francis gave today as a gift to Emeritus Pope Benedict

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“And this is the first word that I want to tell you: 'Joy!' Do not be men and women of sadness: a Christian can never be sad! Never give way to discouragement! Ours is not a joy that comes from having many possessions, but it comes from having encountered a Person, Jesus, who is among us. - Pope Francis (Palm Sunday Homily)

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I just saw this photo of Pope Francis embracing this child who suffers with cerebral palsy. What a touching moment! I don't know how to start a new thread so I posted here .

God Bless!

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Look at that picture of our beloved Pope Francis, those are the eyes of a child.

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I love him!!!

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So do I !!

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Look at that picture of our beloved Pope Francis, those are the eyes of a child.
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My exact thought!!

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I just saw this photo of Pope Francis embracing this child who suffers with cerebral palsy. What a touching moment! I don't know how to start a new thread so I posted here .

God Bless!
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Here's the story. It'll make you tear up. Such a blessing for this child and family to experience the love of Pope Francis.

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/popes-hug-embraced-everyone-with-disabilities-dad-says/

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Here's the story. It'll make you tear up. Such a blessing for this child and family to experience the love of Pope Francis.

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/popes-hug-embraced-everyone-with-disabilities-dad-says/
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Thank you so much for this Tina.

You know what is so special about this pope. He is humility and love in the public eye. An inspiration for those who are hurt by people who claim to know God. He is a true light in the darkness. As a child I would have been so drawn to him just the way I am now.

He is God's blessing to the world. I thank God for him. Many will re-awaken their faith and see God in a new light because of this man.

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Read this account of his visit to St peters tomb. He has the spirit of St Peter. How interesting.
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=17490

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Fifteen days in Rome: How the Pope was picked
A very good article on the "proceedings" of the days of the congregations of cardinals and how they expanded their conversations over special meals. Cardinal Bergoglio brought everybody's attention with his short, refreshing, and right to the point 4 minutes speech at the congregations.

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Sitting down at a long banquet table, the cardinals began to discuss a half-dozen papal candidates. Saucers of soup were served. The candidacies of Cardinals Ouellet and Scola were weighed. Then someone dropped Cardinal Bergoglio's name into the conversation. "His name began to be thrown into the ring: Maybe this is the man?" recalls Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor.

The name didn't generate much buzz among the Americans and their guests. As the evening wore on, and glasses of red and white wine began to flow, it became clear that, this time around, the Americans were not united in their thinking about papal contenders. "I thought the American cardinals were quite divided about where to go," said Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor, who didn't enter the conclave because he is above the voting-age limit of 80 years.
Some princes of the church believed Cardinal Bergoglio, at 76, was probably too old to become pope, especially after Benedict XVI had specifically cited his age and frailty as reasons for his resignation. "We came into this whole process thinking: The next pope has to be vigorous and therefore probably younger," said Cardinal George. "So there you have a man who isn't young. He's 76 years old. The question is: Does he still have vigor?"
Two days after the dinner, however, something clicked. And it happened in the span of four minutes—the length of Cardinal Bergoglio's speech when it was his turn to address the General Congregation. On March 7, the Argentine took out a sheet of white paper bearing notes written in tiny tight script. They were bullet-pointed.
Many cardinals had focused their speeches on specific issues, whether it was strategies for evangelization or progress reports on Vatican finances. Cardinal Bergoglio, however, wanted to talk about the elephant in the room: the long-term future of the church and its recent history of failure. From its start, Pope Benedict's papacy had been focused on reinforcing Catholicism's identity, particularly in Europe, its historic home. Amid a collapse of the church's influence and following in Europe, the German pontiff had called on Catholics to hunker down and cultivate a "creative minority" whose embrace of doctrine was sound enough to resist the pull of secular trends across the continent. That message, however, had been overshadowed by the explosion of sexual-abuse allegations across Europe and rampant infighting in the Vatican ranks.
The notes on Cardinal Bergoglio's sheet were written in his native Spanish. And he could easily have delivered the remarks in Spanish—19 of the cardinals voting in the conclave came from Spanish-speaking countries and a team of Vatican translators was on hand to provide simultaneous translations in at least four other languages.
But he spoke in Italian, the language cardinals most commonly use inside Vatican City and the native tongue of Italy's 28 voting-age cardinals, the most of any single nation. He wanted to be understood, loud and clear. The leaders of the Catholic Church, our very selves, Cardinal Bergoglio warned, had become too focused on its inner life. The church was navel-gazing. The church was too self-referential.
"When the church is self-referential," he said, "inadvertently, she believes she has her own light; she ceases to be the mysterium lunae and gives way to that very serious evil, spiritual worldliness."
Roman Catholicism, he said, needed to shift its focus outward, to the world beyond Vatican City walls, to the outside. The new pope "must be a man who, from the contemplation and adoration of Jesus Christ, helps the church to go out to the existential peripheries, that helps her to be the fruitful mother, who gains life from the sweet and comforting joy of evangelizing."
The word he used, periferia in Italian, literally translates into "the periphery" or "the edge." But to Italian ears, periferia is also a term loaded with heavy socioeconomic connotations. It is on the periphery of Italian cities, and most European ones, that the working-class poor live, many of them immigrants. The core mission of the church wasn't self-examination, the cardinal said. It was getting in touch with the everyday problems of a global flock, most of whom were battling poverty and the indignities of socioeconomic injustice.

German Cardinals Reinhard Marx of Munich and Walter Kasper, an old Vatican hand, perked up. So did Cardinals Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne of Lima and Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino of Havana, who promptly asked the pope for the notes of his address. For days they had heard speeches about "new evangelization," a term from past popes that many cardinals used to honor their memory while disagreeing over what it meant. Suddenly, they were hearing someone speak about justice, human dignity. And it was simple, clear, refreshing.
"He speaks in a very straightforward way," said Cardinal George. "And so perhaps—more than the content—it was simply a reminder that here is someone who has authenticity in such a way that he's a wonderful witness to the discipleship."
To Cardinal Cipriani Thorne of Lima, Peru, the address was vintage Bergoglio. For years, the Peruvian had heard his fellow Latin American cardinal deliver similar remarks. And like those earlier speeches, his message to the General Congregation walked a very fine line. Many cardinals, including Cipriani Thorne, were stern opponents of any rhetoric that appeared to invite class warfare. Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI had reined in liberation theology, the teachings of Latin American priests who embraced Marxism, and churchmen like Cipriani Thorne had supported the crackdown. But Cardinal Bergoglio's message to cardinals deftly sidestepped those ideological pitfalls by grounding his message in a call to model the modern church on the humility of its origins.
"He's not relating this to ideology, to let's say, rich against poor," Cardinal Cipriani Thorne said. "No, no, nothing like that. He's saying that Jesus himself brought us to this world to be poor—to not have this excessive consumerism, this great difference between rich and poor."
What many thought Cardinal Bergoglio was offering the church—after a decade of struggling to overcome the sexual-abuse crisis and years of internal bickering over issues like the liturgy—was a new narrative. He was telling a story of modern Catholicism that focused less on its complex inner workings and more on its outreach to those most in need.
"We've been arguing intra-ecclesia," Cardinal Cipriani Thorne said. Cardinal Bergoglio's speech was a call to stop "messing around" and "get to the point: It's Jesus."
By Sunday, March 10, two days before the start of the conclave, a new narrative was taking hold among the cardinals. Cardinal Bergoglio was now a contender, and even the Argentine was starting to feel the pressure of being papabile.
Late that night, the Rev. Thomas Rosica, a Canadian priest, was walking along the edge of Rome's Piazza Navona when he ran into Cardinal Bergoglio making his way back to the Domus hotel. Streetlamps illuminated the contorted stone figures of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's 17th-century Fountain of Four Rivers. The sound of trickling water accompanied the clerics.
"Pray for me," Cardinal Bergoglio said, grasping the priest's hands.
"Are you nervous?" Father Rosica asked.
"A little bit," the cardinal said.
—Excerpted from The Wall Street Journal's new e-book "Pope Francis: From the End of the Earth to Rome," available atPopeFrancisTheBook.com.
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You can read the full article here:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...6550744061538.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories

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Cardinal Cañizares, head of the Congr. for Liturgy and the Sacraments, gives his opinion of the experience of the conclave, and also of the liturgical style of Pope Francis.

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