FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH


I WROTE ON 11TH MAY 2010:

POPE?S SPEECH IN PORTUGAL

WE ACKNOWLEDGE THE COURAGE WITH WHICH HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI EXPRESSED HIMSELF TODAY ON THE CONTENT OF THE SECRET OF FATIMA AND WE URGE HIM TO FURTHER REVEAL THE HIDDEN PARTS, EXTENSIVELY DIVULGED BY US ALREADY.
MEANWHILE, ALTHOUGH OUR BITTER AND HARSH CRITICISM REMAINS FIRM TOWARDS THE VATICAN?S CRIMES AND SCANDALS CARRIED OUT IN THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH, WE CAN DO NOTHING BUT SHARE THE PONTIFF?S DEED OF TODAY.


FAITHFULLY
GIORGIO BONGIOVANNI
SANT'ELPIDIO A MARE, (ITALY)
11TH MAY 2010

Suffering of the Church comes from within

The worst persecution of the Church today does not come from the outside but  from  the  sins  within her. Benedict XVI said this speaking to journalists aboard the plane en route to Portugal on Tuesday morning, 11 May. During the in-flight interview the Pope spoke on sexual abuse scandals in the Church, emphasizing the need for her to relearn conversion, prayer and penitence while also affirming that "forgiveness does not substitute justice".

On landing at Portela International Airport in Lisbon, the Pope was welcomed by President An?bal Cavaco Silva and Cardinal Jos? da Cruz Policarpo, Patriarch of Lisbon. In the afternoon he paid a courtesy call on the President. The Pontiff later celebrated Mass at Terreiro do Pa?o, spoke on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Christ the King Shrine in Almeda and addressed young people.

Pope Benedict XVI visits Fatima shrine
Pope Benedict XVI holds open air masses for capacity crowds in Lisbon and Porto, and visits the Marian shrine of Fatima to celebrate the anniversary of the day in 1917 when the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to three shepherd children there. While in Portugal he could announce plans to canonize Sister Lucia dos Santos, one of the three children, who died in 2005 at the age of 97. He could scold the Socialist government for legalizing abortion and gay marriage.

On the 13th of each month from May to Oct 1917, the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to L?cia,10, and to her cousins Jacinta, 7, and Francisco Marto, 9, in the fields outside the village of Aljustrel near Fatima. Jacinta and Francisco died in 1919, victims of the Spanish flu. All three have been beatified, the first step to sainthood.

http://www.vatican.va/news_services/or/or_eng/text.html
http://www.newsahead.com/preview/2010/05/11/portugal-11-14-may-2010-pope-benedict-xvi-visits-fatima-shrine/index.php