It is sometimes easy for Catholics to forget that their popes have their own personal tragedies to endure, just as we all do:
Go here to read the rest.
PopeWatch found this prayer consoling when he suffered the loss of a son:
May the relatives of the Pope even now be enjoying the Beatific Vision and may the Pope be consoled by the knowledge that for Christians the grave is not an end but only a gateway to a new and better life.
I’m praying especially for the husband’s being fortified by the Holy Spirit and the wife passing through purgatory quickly.
A like tragedy just befell the military mastermind of Hamas in Gaza and there…he contributed to it which he will have to live with:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/20/us-mideast-gaza-idUSKBN0GI12O20140820