Pope-St. John Paul II.........was he also a visionary and prophet?
...During the 1976 Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia, a relatively unknown figure, the Archbishop of Krakow and future Pope John Paul II, said: “We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has ever gone through. I do not think that wide circles of the American society, or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-church, between the Gospel and the anti-gospel. This confrontation lies within the plans of Divine Providence; it is a trial which the whole Church . . . must take up, and face courageously.” ...
Well.
The current Pope has fallen off the edge, so to speak--both in terms of the Church AND in terms of wider society; his embrace of Red China, his use of 'Great Reset' terminolgy, and his seemingly-sloppy 'obiter dicta' often putting into doubt Church teaching and doctrine.......you get the drift.
But John Paul's comment was NOT limited to the Church's problems, was it? Look again at the text:
"We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has ever gone through. I do not think that wide circles of the American society, or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully...."
In fact, JPII spoke of "humanity"......."American society".........."Christian community" before he specifically says "the Church."
Is that what motivated Abp. Vigano to step into the presidential election with this?
...As I said when I wrote my letter to you in June, this historical moment sees the forces of Evil aligned in a battle without quarter against the forces of Good; forces of Evil that appear powerful and organized as they oppose the children of Light, who are disoriented and disorganized, abandoned by their temporal and spiritual leaders.
Daily we sense the attacks multiplying of those who want to destroy the very basis of society: the natural family, respect for human life, love of country, freedom of education and business. We see heads of nations and religious leaders pandering to this suicide of Western culture and its Christian soul, while the fundamental rights of citizens and believers are denied in the name of a health emergency that is revealing itself more and more fully as instrumental to the establishment of an inhuman faceless tyranny...
Sure seems like it.
Prove me wrong.
2 comments:
Well said. I agree.
Agree with as well, except for a few caveats.
Don't see John Paul II as a Visionary, at least here. A Visionary's insight is supernatural, almost mystical, usually Divinely gifted, with no explanation how.
Anyone who kept/keeps themselves WELL-informed could have deduced the same assertions and conclusions.
Also, I cannot abide by The Canonization/Beatification of SaintHood upon John Paul II. His long tenure as Pope was riddled with highly dubious and highly questionable actions, any of which could have caused the straying of The Shepherd's Sheep. Many true, devout, and traditional Catholics agree with me and questioned MANY of John Paul II's overt actions, most of which were caught on film, such as visiting mosques, capitulating/apologizing to Jews, visiting Synagogues, even participating in other denominations' non-Catholic ceremonies, et al, etc.
In the grand 30,000 foot historical view of Holy Mother Church over the last centuries, we truly have been a dark dry period of Vicar Shepherds. Where are the Reverend Fulton Sheens, the Archbishop Marcel Lefebvres, Padre Pios, Malachai Martins, the TRUE Doctrinal Warriors, The Doctors and Apologists of Holy Mother Church, whom only sought The Divinity Of Christ, in pure form, and not tainted by money nor politics at and in The Vatican?
I don't believe we have really had a "decent" pious Pope since the 1950s and before.
I am no SedeVacantist. On the contrary, I am an completely obedient Catholic. But facts are facts.
I agree with what John Paul II foresaw. I don't agree he had Divine Inspiration or supernatural powers to envision it.
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