I work out Monday through Friday at 5 AM at Planet Fitness. There is a man there, maybe in his late 50’s or early 60’s who reminds me of someone but I can’t ever figure out who that someone is.
Well, this morning, I figured it out. He looks just like Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, not in clerical garb, but in gym shorts and a t-shirt.
Surely this is a sign from God to the universal Church that Cardinal Pizzaballa will be elected the new pope.
Unlike Pope Francis, Cardinal Pizzaballa is a Franciscan who has been in the Holy Land for over 30 years. He is now the Patriarch of Jerusalem and has the name Peter in his first name.
But as a Franciscan, wouldn’t it be cool if Cardinal Pizzaballa took the name Pope Francis I, but not the Franciscan Francis, but the Jesuit Francis, Saint Francis Xavier!
You know, that there is a very famous Peter who once lived in Jerusalem and moved to Rome. Anyone know who that is?
And certainly Pope Francis was never seen in gym shorts or chasuble, dalmatic and alb like these:
1 comment:
I wish I felt it to be equally "cool".
The whole Francis ethos, to me, is exhausting relative to the big picture problems, collapse of belief in the true presence, apathy, "spiritual catholics", worldliness, inappropriate/sinful behaviors, inefficiency, ineffective career bureaucrats, bloated overly powerful papacy occupied by god-men etc.
Signs and wonders are nifty talking points, rubber hitting the road to save this tradition where it's dying/post-Catholic is a totally separate matter.
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