Timothy Birdnow

Here is a rather dull article about Pope Leo greeting a crowd for the first time since his hospitalization for lung cancer. Yawn, right. But it made me think.

There is war all over the world right now and there seems to be no way to stop it, but I know how it could be done and the Pope is the only man capable of doing it. Hear me out.

Of all the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the most talked about and firmly established one is Fatima. It is the Gold Standard of all Marianne apparitions. Of that there is absolutely no question. It has been exhaustively studied by scholars and ruled by the Church to be 100% authentic; God did indeed dispatch His mother to give comfort and counsel to Mankind at the little village in Portugal.

I say this in preamble to my proposal to establish that this is coming from God.

The world is burning and the Pope is fiddling. Why hasn't he gone to Russia, or Ukraine, or Iran?

At Fatima Mary]link=https://fatima.org/the-consecration-of-russia] told the visionaries a simple remedy for all of this:

But no Pope - not even Pope St. John Paul II - dared do it. JPII came close, consecrating the whole world to the Immaculate Heart and he mumbled something about Russia (and we had a limited time of peace and prosperity, just as we made a limited response to her request) but none have dared make this consecration. The Pope, and ONLY the Pope, can do it.

If Leo wants to live up to that name he chose he needs to step up, and to do that he needs to finally fulfill Mary's request. If he consecrates Russia to the Immaculate Heart this destructive Ukrainian war will end and there will be peace. The War in Iran will probably end too if this happens.

He has the power, he has the authority. Now he needs to grow a pair.

The Papacy was terrified of doing this when the Soviet Union was in existence and they feared the political ramifications of it. They also feared angering the Protestants, with whom they were negotiating a return of the Protestant churches - ecumenism. Ecumenism is an attempt to meld the Christian world back together, and the Catholic churches appear much more Protestant now than they did in times past; much of the ritual and even the design of the churches has changed to "modernize" the Church, to make it more inviting for Protestants. No more prayers in Latin, no more having the Priest on the altar with his back to the congregation. The churches now are more open, more inviting, far less judgmental, far less strict, and far more empty as a result. They no longer preach messages with any real content. It's become a social club with a crucifix.

The Pope doesn't want to mess that up by consecrating (dedicatin) an Orthodox Russia. He, like his predecessors, have hopes of bringing the Orthodox back into the fold.

So what IS the Pope planning to do? He's going to Uruguay, Peru, and other Latin American countries where he will receive adulation. But that is not where he is needed. He should visit Kiev and then Moscow and try to broker peace. He should visit American troops in the Persian Gulf (obviously not go to Iran - they'd probably kill him in a horrible and vulgar way). Instead he's going to friendly country. In my mind that makes him a coward.

Look, the guy is in his seventies and has lung cancer. If he is killed while visiting these countries it will suck, but he doesn't have THAT long to go anyway and if he truly believes he will be joyous at the prospect. But instead he goes as far away from these conflicts as he can.

And he, like his predecessors, refuses to do the one thing that will bring peace to this Earth.

This is entirely in his hands, and those hands will be stained in blood on Judgment Day. He will have to answer for his refusal to act here. His silence is deafening.

Consecrate Russia already!

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