My blog was the first blog in the world to show Pope Benedict XVI wearing the papal fannon for the first time. My clairvoyance tells me that Pope Leo, in a few years, will recover the fannon too for more solemn papal liturgies.
My blog, most humble as it is, through my clairvoyance predicted that Thursday, May 8th would be the day that the new pope would be elected. He was!
On May 8th, as I predicted the election of the new pope, I highlighted that May 8th is the Feast day of the Apparitions of St. Michael the Archangel and that Pope Leo XIII had written the Prayer to St. Michael. Yes, I wrote that before the election of the pope and I suggested that he might take the name Michael. I was wrong about Michael, but more on that later.
I also wrote prior to the pope’s election, that May 8th is also the Feast of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary of Pompeii. After the pope was elected, in his first words to the world, the new pope spoke of Our Lady of Pompeii and then led the world in praying the Hail Mary.
As I mentioned, prior to the pope’s election, I predicted that he might choose the name Michael and I wondered if that would be Pope Michael I as I wasn’t sure if there had been a pope named Michael.
One person who commented on Michael said that there was a schismatic sect in the Church who has a “pope” named Michael and thus he didn’t think the new pope would take that name.
Then another commenter, a convert of mine from St. Joseph in Macon, Georgia, Marc, wrote that the new pope would take the name of Leo XIV! Yes, Marc predicted it and correctly, before the pope was elected, that he would choose the name LEO XIV! I kid you not!
THUS MY BLOG WAS THE FIRST IN THE WORLD BY WAY OF MARC, TO NAME THE NEW POPE’S PAPAL NAME BEFORE THE NEW POPE WAS ELECTED!
Was it intuitive, or does Robert Cardinal Prevost read my blog and did he read what I and Marc predicted about the election of the new pope and what name he would take and the connection to Pope Leo XIII, St. Michael the Archangel and Our Lady of Pompeii as votes were being counted on the day of his election. I doubt that this discreet pope will ever reveal this.
But I do have a feeling, that Pope Leo XIV has read my most humble blog, I really do!
And, in addition to all these phenomenal things coming from my blog as firsts, I was the first to say that we needed to read or interpret Pope Leo XIV through Pope Leo XIII and his social encyclicals. I also indicated that we had to look at Pope Leo the Great (Leo I) to interpret the new pope.
I was the first to write that the new Pope would not cancel Pope Francis but refine his more controversial and seemingly heterodox and cruel decisions.
He would refine TC and make it more like SP, but a refinement of that also.
And now even the heterodox leaning Jesuit Cardinal, Cardinal Hollerich of Luxembourg has said Pope Leo will refine Fiducia Supplicans on blessing actively fornicating lgbtq+++ couples.
I also predicted first that Pope Leo will definitely refine synodality and we will see those refinements and clarity about it very quickly. Pope Leo’s synodality will not undermine the College of Bishops’ divine mandate to teach, rule and sanctify God’s people in union with the pope. Pope Leo’s synodality will promote Catholic unity and purify the divisiveness that Pope Francis’ type of synodality has inflicted upon the Chruch throughout the world.
Pope Leo’s version of synodality will be rooted in the Splendor of Divine Truth as well as Scripture and Tradition and the Magisterium of the Church throughout time.
All this is amazing, so I am told.
9 comments:
That would be cool if Pope Leo XIV reads your blog. Who knows, maybe he has already left a comment.
Sorry, guy, but, years back, on these very pages, I not only accurately predicted that Bergoglio/Francis would die (top THAT), but also suggested he be replaced by Pope Bob.
Meanwhile, my guesses of Pope Bob's papacy trend towards things not getting much worse, and not much better, past mainly middle of road status quo, with most effort repairing only the image of papacy and institutional church salvaging the company image, not much in blatant open warfare, but more back to the subtle normal gradualist progressive moves of times past.
I normally look for the negative possibilities on these occasions and thus am rarely disappointed. In this instance I am a little more positive simply because, as Bob states, they could not get much worse. It is simply the human condition and the grace of God that causes a natural reaction in the situation. I fervently hope that those in authority cooperated with this grace that is given them.
Father McDonald, said..."Pope Leo’s synodality will promote Catholic unity and purify the divisiveness that Pope Francis’ type of synodality has inflicted upon the Church throughout the world. "
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Father McDonald, Pope Leo XIV has made it clear that the Synod that you have described is not the Synod that, inspired by the Holy Ghost, Pope Francis had conducted.
Pope Leo XIV has made it clear that the Synod has, and will continue, to bless the Church.
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Father, last week you posted the following video:
-- Evening of Reflection with Cardinal Prevost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U3yBFdt4QM
Beginning at the 35:35 mark, then-Cardinal Prevost discussed the Synod.
Beginning at the 37:40 mark, our future Pope declared that there are two Synods: The real Synod, and, the fake "print/Internet" Synod.
Father, the fake "print/Internet" is the Synod that you have long linked to Pope Francis. Conversely, as Pope Leo XIV has made clear, the Synod that Pope Francis guided is the orthodox holy, authentic Synod.
Pope Leo XIV, as he has made clear, will move Holy Mother Church forward in line with Pope Francis' Synod — the Synod inspired by the Holy Ghost.
Via the Synod, Pope Francis launched the holy, monumental reform of the Church that Pope Leo XIV is determined to continue.
Deo gratias for Pope Leo XIV!
Pax.
Mark Thomas
MT, You sound like Fr. Z in the first year of Pope Francis’ papacy, reading Pope Francis through Benedict. That lasted about a year. But at the start of Pope Leo’s pontificate, certainly Fr. Z and you can read Leo through Benedict with Leo’s return to tradition with the Mozzetta, ornate papal stole, upgraded papal suv, and living in the Apostolic Palace. No continuity there with Francis and synodality with Leo Will be seen through Benedict not Francis. Just wait.
As Pope Leo XIV plays Wordle, I see no reason why he might follow Southern Orders as well.
Father McDonald said..."MT, You sound like Fr. Z in the first year of Pope Francis’ papacy, reading Pope Francis through Benedict. That lasted about a year. But at the start of Pope Leo’s pontificate, certainly Fr. Z and you can read Leo through Benedict with Leo’s return to tradition with the Mozzetta, ornate papal stole, upgraded papal suv, and living in the Apostolic Palace. No continuity there with Francis and synodality with Leo Will be seen through Benedict not Francis. Just wait."
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Father McDonald, thank you for your reply.
I recall vividly Father Zuhlsdorf's "reading Pope Francis through Benedict" declarations.
Father, based upon your comments, one would conclude that in light of the following, it is impossible to read, for example, Pope Venerable Pius XII through, for example, Pope Benedict XVI:
Pope Benedict XVI had "cancelled" Pope Venerable Pius XII via Pope Benedict XVI's rejection of the Papa Tiara, sedia gestatoria...ancient Good Friday prayer for Jews...Pope Benedict XVI "cancelled" Pope Venerable Pius XII's refusal to pray inside Protestant churches, synagogues, and mosques.
During Assisi III, inside the Basilica of Holy Mary of the Angels, Pope Benedict XVI permitted voodoo warlock Wande Abimbola to chant a prayer to the strange god "Olokun."
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The above examples demonstrate that in regard to this, or that practice, or in regard to temperament, Popes sometimes "cancel" each other in ways that may even appear dramatic.
But as Pope Benedict XVI, for example, had made clear, the reality is that we read this Pope through that Pope as Popes have held, beginning with Saint Peter, the True Faith.
Journalist Peter Seewald: "Then how, taking leave of the Curia, could you promise your successor absolute obedience without knowing who it would be?"
Pope (Emeritus) Benedict XVI: "The Pope is the Pope, regardless of who it is."
Peter Seewald: "So you do not see any kind of break with your pontificate?"
Pope (Emeritus) Benedict XVI: "No. I mean, one can of course misinterpret in places, with the intention of saying that everything has been turned on its head now.
"If one isolates things, takes them out of context, one can construct opposites, but not if one looks at the whole.
"There may be a different emphasis, of course, but no opposition."
Pax.
Mark Thomas
Fr. McDonald,
I still think MT Suit is K’s alter ego
MT Suit,
You are confusing Holy, Holy Pope Benedict with Paul VI who destroyed the Roman Mass and all the Papal accoutrements you spoke of. Evil, evils
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