<div dir="ltr">We wait in hope!! Rosemary</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 4:48 PM John Scandiffio via Sundaycommunity <<a href="mailto:sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca">sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><p style="margin:0px 0px 3px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:28px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-weight:bold">FrancesI</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:22px"><span></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span>I’m at the Futures Bistro on Bloor, in Toronto, <span> </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 style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:22px"><span></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span>I once saw a woman priest, in full liturgical robes. <span> </span>She was at the side alter conducting a service , in the United Church. <span> </span>It was stunningly sacred. </span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:22px"><span></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span>After mass last Sunday<span> </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 style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:22px"><span></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span>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 style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:22px"><span></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span>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 style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:22px"><span></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span>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>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 style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody;font-weight:bold">It makes no distinction between lay men and lay women.</span><span> </span></p><div><span><br></span></div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span>Multiple women journalists who write for the associated Press write on the Vatican in the Jesuit magazine AMERICA , published out of Manhattan. <span> </span>The Vatican knowledge is passed on to both female and male. </span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:22px"><span></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span>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 style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody;font-weight:bold">Francesca Di Giovanni</span><span>, the first woman to hold this position </span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:22px"><span></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span>The sacred imagination calls on a residing Pope to make women members of the Curia so they could be elected Pope. <span> </span>Pope FrancesI. </span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:22px"><span></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span>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 style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:22px"><span></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span>Pax</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:22px"><span></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span>John and Marianne Scandiffio </span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:22px"><span></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:22px"><span></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span>Sent from my iPhone</span></p><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div></div>________________________________________<br>
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