May the Pope enjoy a speedy recovery and may pain in the rump jokes be at a minimum. Seriously though, at the Pope’s age almost any surgery carries some risk.
PopeWatch: Surgery
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Yes May he have a speedy recovery and praying for him because he is our Pope. Nobody is perfect. Even the Pope.
At times it’s difficult to grasp the love we are called to share with our brothers and sisters in Christ when our expectations of them is much loftier than their reality, which can be disappointing to say the least.
My parents, unfortunately, had to suffer my relentless sinful behavior and the aftermath, but they never gave up on me. They truly loved me even though I didn’t love myself, and subsequently couldn’t love anyone properly, or authentically.
It is that heroic love, from above, which they called upon to bring me back to the harbor of truth. Love is the force that softened my hard heart.
Love can move mountains.
Love can change hearts.
Love can regenerate a soul to not just attain the expectations we know they can achieve, but far exceed them.
That is my humble prayer for this pontificate.
As the Pope heals from his surgery he reflects that the rigidity he abhors in others is a trademark of his pontificate. A subconscious sword wielded against the conservative traditional Catholics.
May Love heal him, spiritually and physically.
Amen Philip.