What the Pope
Is Really Worried About
We know he truly is worried about the innocent people of Iraq, if war should come, especially the already-deprived children of that terror-infested nation.
We know John Paul is concerned over terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).
We know the pope, as predicted at Fatima, was a victim of terror itself.
But we believe what most people don't realize, especially those who are not “religious,” is why the pope is truly opposed to the war against Iraq.
Some can say we are guessing, but we believe if you read between the lines ...
It is not because he does not want sad man insein removed from power.
It is not because he does not want WMDs removed from the hands of those who would use them to annihilate the nation of Israel.
It is not because he does not want to prevent an alliance between al-Qaeda and the terrorist regime of Iraq.
It is not because he is anti-American.
It is not because he is against the president, although they obviously seriously disagree on many a subject.
What is the pope really worried about and why is he so vehemently against an American-led attack against a nation that is a terrorist state?
It can be found in a few couched diplomatic statements.
It can be found in the last lines of a news wire report. (UPI reported that papal envoy Cardinal Laghi told President Bush that an armed conflict would ... place a new gulf between Islam and Christianity.)
It can be found in the remarks of the Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, who questioned if the U.S. really wanted to irritate 1 billion moslems.
It can be found in the pages of history.
It can be found in the messages of Mary.
It can be found in the pope’s forgiveness of the islamic terrorist assailant who tried to kill John Paul in 1981.
It can be found in the World Trade Center attack.
It can be found in the diplomacy of ecumenism.
It can be found in the recent inter-religious dialogue statement made by the Vatican and leaders of islam (gag! let’s dialogue with those who blaspheme our Lord as the koran claims Jesus “faked” His death on a Cross. Here’s a good way to start the Lenten season and remember Jesus’ Passion).
It can be found in the fear of a global jihad.
It can be found in the “clash of culture” statements.
Succinctly put, it can ultimately be found in the pope’s worry that an attack on Iraq will lead to 1.3 billion moslems around the world rising up in hatred against the West and its values as a “Christian” culture.
It is this worry and this foremost that has John Paul II carrying the battle standard for peaceful and diplomatic negotiations, rather than military might to solve this crisis.
It is his fear that an attack on Iraq now will be seen as a “religious” war. A “religious” war that will lead to nothing more than an all-out, do-or-die effort on the part of the islamic nation — a nation that knows no borders — to finally eradicate the “infidel”; a goal taught as a central tenet of islam (“to submit”) and one its believers have been harboring since the beginning of the religion’s formation 1,300 years ago.
A goal, which today, in reality, only the Hand of God will deter, because in the final analysis, there is no longer a united Christian front to defend the world from the scourge of islam as there was just half-a-century ago. We need only look at the former Catholic nations of Europe to see the Truth of this. (Pass the Evian, please.)
The pope no longer has an army of battle-ready Christians at his command to rise up and fight islam. He only has those who are willing to pray the Rosary.
And in that case, while he knows he has an overwhelming spiritual majority, his temporal supporters, which are the ONLY ones the Lord counts, are desperately lacking. Not even many of his own priests take up the most potent weapon in the world — the prayers of the Rosary. A host of his bishops fare no better as more know how to swing a golf club in the early morning hours than to get on their knees before the Blessed Sacrament with their Rosaries in hand.
In the final analysis, if a full-scale war truly does break out between islam and the West (for we already have been in a “guerrilla” war since the 1960s), only the intercession of Mary as the Queen of Peace will be the deciding factor.
For only Mary has the formal right, as the Queen of the 3rd Millennium, to ask Her Son to save what is left of His Kingdom before WMDs destroy what is left of His creation.
And since the pope does not know the timing of Mary’s heavenly request — whether it is tomorrow, the next day, the next year, the next decade, or the next century — he is doing the only thing he knows for sure: to repeat the earthly requests from Mary, John Paul’s Superior, and the true Commander of God’s Army, for prayers, fasting and peace above all other options.
As the visible Vicar of the invisible Christ, who oversaw the destruction of communism through the prayers of the Rosary, John Paul II knows there are truly no other nor better options.
Short of the same miraculous fall of atheistic communism through the prayers of the faithful and Mary’s intercession — accomplished by a united front of the people of Poland following the Vicar of Christ — the Christian world of the 3rd Millennium does not have the same focus against islam. It is harder to see the face of an enemy when that face believes as opposed to the face of one who does not believe.
The pope, we believe, is afraid that the world, following an attack against Iraq by the United States (seen as the “great satan” by islam), will wake up to find itself strangling in the terror of islamic abortion as a billion suicidal fanatics kill themselves in the name of “allah” to rid their world of the Christian and Judaic “infidels.” Infidels who live in America, Europe and Israel.
And that is the “long-term” war that worries Christ’s deputy. A deputy who prays fervently against this war; but one he may not be able to stop. He can only appeal to his commander, the Woman who is the Queen of Peace.
And that Woman, in turn, has already made Her appeal to mankind; an appeal mankind is, once again, not heeding.
If this war that worries John Paul does come then as a result of mankind ignoring the Commander of God’s Army and Her appeals, how can we, as God’s people, win when faced with such fanatical and overwhelming suicidal maniacs? For a quick victory in Iraq does not equate to an end of islamic terrorism.
As outnumbered as believers may be in a world of 6.6 billion, we must appeal to the same Woman who defeated soviet communism and islamic terrorism. The Queen of Peace, the only One who can effectively intercede, as She has in the past, with the Commander in Chief.
Not the false commander in chief of one nation who refuses to hear the Queen of Peace, but the Commander in Chief who not only hears but answers His Mother’s prayers and will defend Her title as the Queen of Peace.
He is, of course, the King of Peace and the King of All Nations!
May He hear our cries through His Mother’s Immaculate Heart and answer our prayers before WMDs are used by leaders who do not remember that one day they shall make an accounting for every word and action they take.
complete Thy plan of Redemption;
send forth Thy Son in His Glory,
so that the Light of Thy Holy Spirit
may shine on the face of the Earth
and in the faces of Thy children!
May the Hand of the Eternal Father’s Justice reign,
where the Hand of His Son’s Mercy has been rejected,
and where the Holy Ghost’s purification has been completed!
Amen!
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