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Predestination
Don't ask me who the next Pope will be. Ask God. He already knows.
- Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn
- Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn
To ask? Is it pointless?
Why the deadly mosquito took
one
and not the other
as a mother might ask
or why the zip
on someone's jacket
jammed stuck
just when the snow hit the town
and the temperature dropped
far below
zero
and he slipped on the ice
outside his back door
by way of examples
in everyday
life . . .
Clever Gwil.
ReplyDeleteBeing a non Catholic (a non anything in fact), I can't begin to get in any way interested in an old Pope or a new one. Although standing in St Peter's Square on Easter Sunday morning some years ago was certainly among my most amazing memories.
I find it interesting that a cardinal, who is said to be on the short list to become the next shepherd (according to Yahoo news) actually says this. And also fascinating is that a bishop over here once said that Haiti earthquake was a punishment from God for the practice of voodoo. Now these are senior figures. They claim special knowledge of the workings of the universe that we ordinary mortals don't have or so it appears to me. It is all predestiny then according to them, except when God interferes like in Haiti - but if God does interfere then why Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and their ilk. It's a path of confusion I can't go down. The history of this church beggars belief. Even today we have cover-ups, sexual abuse of children, bank scandals etc.. Will they never learn?
ReplyDeleteIn the end I shall simply leave theology to the 'experts' and admit 'I don't know'.
ReplyDeleteStrange though, the big thunderstorm over Rome and the dome of St Peter's being struck by lightning just hours after the Pope's resignation. As if God was angry.
ReplyDeleteIt is not being reported here in RC Austria but it can easily be found on the internet - God's new banker appointed two days ago by the the pope as one of his last acts is a German warship manufacturer... it's true you couldn't make this stuff up. Customers include Nigeria and Argentina.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the comment and I love this poem.
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