Just Asking Questions
Dr. Bowring writes: Interestingly, St. Faustina wrote in her diary that her “worst day of suffering” where she felt as if she was in Gethsemane (where Jesus was betrayed by Judas) was the SAME EXACT DAY POPE FRANCIS WAS BORN. She writes:
December 17, [1936]. I have offered this day for priests. I have suffered more today than ever before, both interiorly and exteriorly. I did not know it was possible to suffer so much in one day. I tried to make a Holy Hour, in the course of which my spirit had a taste of the bitterness of the Garden of Gethsemane.
Thank you for your reporting on Ivereigh’s book. I have just read the chapter on the conclave and I would like to call your attention to a footnote in the book ‘The Great Reformer’ which is footnote 10 from page 357. The footnote itself can be found on page 406:
” In his ‘ Francis Pope of a New World’ … ch.3, the leading Vatican commentator Andrea Tornielli says that there were no campaigns organized in advance of thec conclave for Bergoglio. There was one.”
Ivereigh states his point clearly here.
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Editor’s Comment: Thanks for this comment, yes, the Footnotes contain a lot of information regarding sources: I have added the citation to this footnote to my article, The Great Reformer, where it is more appropriate to cite it.