<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold;">FrancesI</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2"></span><br></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2">I’m at the Futures Bistro on Bloor, in Toronto, <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>a wonderful large cafe and meeting place. Marianne has been editing, reviewing and rewriting a piece on the steps to have a girl,that receives the grace , to be Pope. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2"></span><br></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2">I once saw a woman priest, in full liturgical robes. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She was at the side alter conducting a service , in the United Church. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was stunningly sacred. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2"></span><br></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2">After mass last Sunday<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>at Our Lady of Lourdes a speaker from the Sisters of St. Paul advised that they were presenting their own book sale. These Sisters of St. Paul have full media capabilities ,theologians, writers, and financial reserves. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2"></span><br></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2">I attended the sale, and one book caught my eye. It was called “The Boy Who Would Be Pope”. Naturally, in today’s world, I approached the Sister , who spoke , and asked her If the Sisters would write a book ‘The Girl Who Would be Pope’? She expressed a definite “No”. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2"></span><br></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2">It seems , in today’s world , that if a girl was reading the book “The boy who would be Pope” she would say why should a girl not be Pope. The spirit of sacred grace is set free. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2"></span><br></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2">In Genesis it is written, so God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. I state this because precedence sets that a Pope must be a man. </span><span class="s2">The principle section of the constitution to appoint a Pope says any member of the faithful can be Pope, if first , the Pope decides they are qualified and appoints them to the Curia, as the Curia operates the Vatican. </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">It makes no distinction between lay men and lay women.</span><span class="s2"> </span></p><div><span class="s2"><br></span></div><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2">Multiple women journalists who write for the associated Press write on the Vatican in the Jesuit magazine AMERICA , published out of Manhattan. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Vatican knowledge is passed on to both female and male. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2"></span><br></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2">The Pope appointed Dr. Francesca Di Giovanni, as under-secretary in the Section for Relations with States to the Curia. She will be coordinating the multilateral sector. </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Francesca Di Giovanni</span><span class="s2">, the first woman to hold this position </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2"></span><br></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2">The sacred imagination calls on a residing Pope to make women members of the Curia so they could be elected Pope. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Pope FrancesI. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2"></span><br></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2">Can we imagine being present as she appears at the Papal site talking to the faithful below at Vatican Square. I’m struck breathless. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2"></span><br></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2">Pax</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2"></span><br></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2">John and Marianne Scandiffio </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2"></span><br></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2">Sent from my iPhone</span></p><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div></body></html>