Well, what do we have here?
"I picked up my pen to write,
and I began. However, my hand was being
moved by some greater spiritual force.
The name on the ballot just happened.
I had not yet narrowed my thinking down to one name; but it was done for
me. I wrote it,
then trembled deeply. That's when I knew
the Holy Spirit was fully working within the Church of Jesus Christ, and that
my role was not to "select" the new Successor to Peter, but to
"write down" his name--a name that had been given to me."
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn met up after a Mass with a couple of South Americans he knew and said to them:
"You have the Holy Spirit, can you give me advice for the Conclave that will start in a few hours? And the woman whispered in my ear ‘Bergoglio’, and it hit me really: if these people say Bergoglio, that’s an indication of the Holy Spirit.
This simply man has news for these two Cardinals.
It might have been a spirit, but it wasn't Holy!
You both need exorcisms.
Read it and weep.
From John Bingham, Religious Affairs Editor, The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/the-pope/10056994/Pope-Francis-elected-after-supernatural-signs-in-the-Conclave-says-Cardinal.html
Cardinal
Christoph Schönborn, the Archbishop of Vienna, who was himself widely tipped as
a possible successor to Pope Benedict, said he had personally had two “strong
signs” that Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was “the chosen one” in the run up
to vote. The "Chosen One?" Chosen by whom? Would it be the one who directed Cardinal McCarrick to "talk (Bergoglio) up?"
He said
only divine intervention could explain the speed with which the Argentine
Cardinal - who did not feature on any of the main lists of likely candidates
compiled by Vatican experts - was elected. (Pope Benedict was quite clear, the Holy Spirit does not elect the Pope, at best, he prevents these men from electing someone who would totally destroy the Church. The Holy Spirit influences and guides but these men must be docile and based upon what we know about the period leading up to the conclave, they were anything but docile. They were lobbying, and had outside influence.)
Speaking to
an Anglican conference in London, he also said the Archbishop of Canterbury,
the Most Rev Justin Welby, had a “strange similarity” to the new Pope. (Yeah, I'd believe it.)
He said
that the two elections were a “little miracle” and a “sign from the Lord” that
the two churches should work towards closer unity. (Only in his dreams maybe. Perhaps he's not heard of Anglicanorum Coetibus, that was the "little miracle.")
Addressing
an audience of 5,000 people in the Royal Albert Hall, at a conference organised
by the prominent Holy Trinity Brompton church in west London, he said that he
was certain that on the evening of March 12, as the papal Conclave began, none
of the Cardinals had known who would be chosen. (Some did)
“It was a
tremendous experience of the Holy Spirit,” he said. (the god of surprises, maybe.)
“We were
driven by the Holy Spirit to this man – he was sitting in the last corner of
the Sistine Chapel: This man he is the chosen one.” (more like groupthink)
He added:
“I received at least two strong signs: one I can tell, the other was in the
Conclave I can’t speak about – but real signs of the Lord giving me indication
‘he is the one’.”
The
Cardinal said that just after a special mass before the Conclave began he came
across a couple from Latin America who are friends of his.
He said: “I
met them outside the Basilica and I asked: ‘You have the Holy Spirit, can you
give me advice for the Conclave that will start in a few hours?’
“And the
woman whispered in my ear ‘Bergoglio’, and it hit me really: if these people
say Bergoglio, that’s an indication of the Holy Spirit. (!!!)
“And I’m
sure many of us have received similar signs during the Conclave, it wouldn’t
have been possible to have this election so soon and so rapidly.” (The fact that it was so quick after what happened to Benedict XVI was a sign to me as I awaited the Habemus Papam that something was terribly wrong. When he came out, I wanted to vomit for hours.)
To
applause, the Cardinal went on: “You know there is a strange similarity with
your Archbishop Justin, I hope so much that they will meet soon.”
Laughing,
he added: “I don’t know the secrets of the ‘conclave’ at Lambeth Palace.
“But it
looks like a little miracle that he became the Archbishop, so I think the Lord
as given us a great sign through these two elections and other signs and what I
have deeply in my heart … it is as if he would say to the world ‘come home, I
wait for you’.”