World Meeting of Families: Francis Without Wheelchair Downfall. Last week, the World Meeting of Families took place in Rome. The event, founded by John Paul II, used to attract huge crowds. In 2012 …More
World Meeting of Families: Francis Without Wheelchair
Downfall. Last week, the World Meeting of Families took place in Rome. The event, founded by John Paul II, used to attract huge crowds. In 2012 there were a million people in Milan, in 2018 in Dublin 130,000. This year in Rome - allegedly because of Covid restrictions - only 2,000 were present. At Saturday's closing Mass, Cardinal Farrell announced a 2025 Jubilee Year of the Family. Francis showed up at the meeting not with a wheelchair but with a cane.
Irresponsible, lazy bully? Throw him out!
Ironing shirts. At the closing Eucharist, Francis warmed up his shopkeepers and joked about unmarried mama’s boys. He recalled a mother who complained that her 37-year-old son was not married. Francis told her to stop ironing his shirts. The audience laughed. Francis added that she should send him away. This way, he would have to leave the nest. He warned parents not to shield their children too much from difficulties. In crises, he said, the …More
Downfall. Last week, the World Meeting of Families took place in Rome. The event, founded by John Paul II, used to attract huge crowds. In 2012 there were a million people in Milan, in 2018 in Dublin 130,000. This year in Rome - allegedly because of Covid restrictions - only 2,000 were present. At Saturday's closing Mass, Cardinal Farrell announced a 2025 Jubilee Year of the Family. Francis showed up at the meeting not with a wheelchair but with a cane.
Irresponsible, lazy bully? Throw him out!
Ironing shirts. At the closing Eucharist, Francis warmed up his shopkeepers and joked about unmarried mama’s boys. He recalled a mother who complained that her 37-year-old son was not married. Francis told her to stop ironing his shirts. The audience laughed. Francis added that she should send him away. This way, he would have to leave the nest. He warned parents not to shield their children too much from difficulties. In crises, he said, the …More