Coincidences

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Conservative though we may be, there were too many signs around and during the funeral not to draw notice.

For example, it was reported that doves flocked over St. Peter’s Square when the funeral of Pope Francis was announced.

It also was reported that the Pope had said he wanted to die during the Easter season. He passed on Easter Monday during morning prayer.

It also came to light that he told the rector of Saint Mary Major Basilica that the Virgin told him to “prepare his tomb”–and he did so, in the basilica dedicated to the Blessed Mother, the major church in Rome thusly dedicated and one based on a miracle (a dream to a Pope that said he would be sent a sign by an uncanny fall of snow, which occurred in August that year where he then had Santa Maria Maggiore built).

Incredibly, the funeral of this Pontiff who so strenuously sought peace for Ukraine saw the president of the United States meet in Saint Peter’;s Basilica after Mass, to discuss peace.

Just as fortuitously, the vice president of the United States, and a relatively new Cathoilic, J. D. Vance, was one of the very last to see the Pontiff alive (on Easter Sunday).

200,000 teens were at the Vatican on Sunday for a Jubilee gathering. That’s a lot of young!

Take a gander of this passage, from liberal MSNBC:

“Members of the highly paradoxical Gen Z cohort in particular are joining the Catholic Church in numbers not seen for generations. According to the conservative National Catholic Register, some dioceses are seeing a year-over-year increase in new members from 30% to 70%. In a diocese in Fort Worth, Texas, the number of converts increased 72% from 2023 to 2024. My own theory is that Pope Francis himself may have something to do with these numbers, although reasons for joining the church in recent years are many. Tributes to him from Catholics and non-Catholics alike speak of his bravery, his devotion to the “discarded” and his compassion. He was rebellious in his inclusion.”