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Raphael BenedictJuly 11, 2022

Pope appointed two women to the panel for choosing bishops

Pope Francis has said he would announce the appointment of two women to the Vatican committee that elects bishops. In comments to Reuters published Wednesday,…

KC GabrielsJune 27, 2022

Reporter Megyn Kelly Says Pope Francis May Resign, is she right?

In a recent now-viral video, Megyn Kelly claims that Pope Francis will resign. She tweeted the following: “Unusual activity at the Vatican as reports break…

Raphael BenedictMarch 21, 2022

Pope visits Ukrainian children in hospital receiving treatment

Pope Francis travels to the Vatican’s Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital to visit a group of Ukrainian children receiving treatment after fleeing the war in their…

Raphael BenedictDecember 8, 2021

Pope Francis concludes the Year of St. Joseph

At the Angelus on December 8, Pope Francis concluded the 2020-2021 Jubilee Year of Saint Joseph At the conclusion of the Angelus on December 8,…

Raphael BenedictNovember 29, 2021

Pope Sends Condolences for Siberia Mine Blast

At Least 51 Killed in Thursday Explosion at Listvyazhnaya Coal Mine The explosion is the deadliest mining incident in Russia since 2010 when two methane…

Raphael BenedictOctober 26, 2021

Pope Francis’s prayer at the site of the Fatima apparitions

The Pope will pray to the Virgin Mary to ‘help us follow the example of Blessed Francisco and Blessed Jacinta’ The Catholic News Service has…

"Let me go to the house of the Father." These were Pope John Paul II's last words, mumbled in polish with a weak voice, six hours before reaching the house of the father. The Vatican already revealed many of the details in a meticulously written report, but the 220-page volume provides more description of John Paul II's decline. It went on sale at the Vatican in recent days, the Holy See's publishing house, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, said Saturday. The book, published as a supplement to the Vatican's official journal, has entries in chronological order, starting with January 31, the day the Vatican's press office announced that the pope's audiences were being suspended because he had flu symptoms. It chronicles John Paul II's symptoms, care, and response to treatment during two hospitalizations and then during his last days in his Vatican City apartment. Six hours before his death, John Paul said in Polish, "with a very weak voice and with mumbled words, 'Let me go to the house of the Father," 'the report said. Following the second hospitalization, which included February 24 throat surgery to insert a breathing tube, John Paul's convalescence was hampered by "very difficult swallowing," laborious attempts to utter words, "nutritional deficit and marked weakness," the account says. Through his moving attempt to give the "Urbi et Orbi" blessing the last Sunday of Easter, which triggered the applause of the faithful gathered on Saint Peter's Square, John Paul II- who after his second hospitalization suffered a "nutritional deficit and weaknesses"- came back to appear at the window of his room Wednesday, March 30 to give the blessing. This appearance "was the last public station of his own Via Crucis," says the document. The account is particularly elaborate about John Paul's turn for the worse on the morning of March 31 at his private chapel when he was "hit by a shaking chill, followed by a sharp rise in temperature" to 39.4 C (103 F). Then the very grave septic shock set in, with cardio-circulatory collapse, due to a diagnosed infection of the urinary tract," the account said. The official account is quite close to one offered last month by John Paul's longtime personal secretary, now Krakow Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz. He told an Italian TV interviewer that a nun who was near the pontiff heard him say: "Let me go to the Lord."

Raphael BenedictApril 8, 2022

Vatican reveals Pope John Paul II’s last words

Let me go to the house of the Father. Vatican reveals Pope John Paul II’s last words The Vatican reveals Pope John Paul II’s last…

KC GabrielsOctober 12, 2021

John Paul I who was Pope for 33 days could be beatified by 2022

John Paul I who was Pope for 33 days could be beatified by 2022. Albino Luciani, who has been dubbed “the smiling pope” might be…

Raphael BenedictSeptember 2, 2021

Update: Cardinal Burke writes a letter of gratitude from the hospital

We previously posted that his ventilator had been removed but is still in recovery in the hospital. He recently updated his Instagram with a post…

Raphael BenedictAugust 26, 2021

Someone sent the Pope a letter with 3 bullets!

A letter containing 3 bullets addressed to Pope Francis was intercepted by the Carabinieri Corps of Milan, Italy. “The envelope, according to what has been…