Ailing Pope to Visit Shrine at Lourdes

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Guardian snip:

Thursday August 12, 2004 3:46 PM
By VICTOR L. SIMPSON

Associated Press Writer

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Joined by hundreds of thousands of pilgrims, the ailing Pope John Paul II will make a weekend trip to Lourdes, France, visiting a shrine associated with miraculous cures.

The Vatican insists the 84-year-old pope, slowed by Parkinson's disease and other ailments, is not seeking a cure for his illnesses, but the visit Saturday and Sunday clearly holds special significance for him.

``I consider the possibility of returning to Lourdes a special gift of providence,'' the pope told pilgrims at his summer residence Wednesday.

The pope visited the sanctuary in 1983 after recovering from a 1981 assassination attempt.

From:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4414346,00.html

Maybe JP2 is hoping for a BIGGER MIRACLE than cure for his Parkinsons: miraculous come-back from bankruptcy in the US and Europe where his church is being hauled over the coals for years and years of child rape/abuse and cover-ups.

Sunday is Feast of the Assumption: maybe he's assuming things will get miraculously better after the Lourdes trip....

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1. LOL, yeah, he should stick to what is more important i.e. other people

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2. "other people" I mean his congregation and everybody else

for that matter.

[jukes]

3. is lourdes

"seven leagues from rome"?

[emad]

4. Probably why Madonna named her brat after the shrine...

either that or it was a miraculous immaculate conception...

[emad]

5. Maybe he's hoping to get PREGNANT and fulfill ancient Opus Dei

prophesy of a female Pope born of the Merovignian line who will crush the infidels..........