# 64 of 70 - THIS HAPPY BOOK REPORT ON PADRE PIO

# 64 OF 70 - THIS HAPPY BOOK REPORT ON PADRE PIO

IN SUPPORT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPORT.COM - WED. AUG. 19, 2020

PADRE PIO - THE TRUE STORY - C. BERNARD RUFFIN

Chapter 32 - "I Cannot Bear My Cross Anymore" p. 360-363

 

"Padre Pio's health seems never to have recovered fully from the illness of 1959 and the strain of the Maccari investigation the following year. He suffered increasingly from chest pains and shortness of breath, which his doctors attributed to asthma and bronchitis. His feet were so swollen that his confreres thought they looked like "melons."....

The Maccari investigation and the restrictions that followed in its wake had failed to reduce his international acclaim. During the Second Vatican Council, which was in session between 1962 and 1965, according to Pyle, "So many bishops from the ecumenical council came up to see Padre Pio that sometimes it seemed that the Council is at San Giovanni Rotondo."...

 

Thinking that his friend was indicating that his wife's cancer had been declared inoperable, Wojtyla tried to console him. "Oh, my God, it is awful for you, Andrze.""Oh, no, you do not understand, not even Wanda ...The doctors are confronted with a mystery. Wanda no longer has cancer. They could not find anything." The physician had in fact determined that Poltawsk's tumor, whether benign or malignant, had completely disappeared.

 

On Nov. 29, Wojtyla wrote Padre Pio: "Venerable Father, the woman living in Cracow, Poland, mother of four young girls, or November 21, just before a surgical operation, suddenly recovered her health. Thanks be to God. Also to you, venerable Father, I give the greatest thanks in the name of the husband and all the family. In Christ, Karol Wojtyla...

 

Padre Pio, in fact, was rumored to have predicted the election of every pope during his lifetime - and beyond! There is no documentary evidence that he ever did - except in one case. In 1958, Padre Pio asked Alberto Galletti, former administrator of the Casa, to relay the following message to the archbishop of Milan, Giovanni Battista Montini: "Tell the Archbishop that he will one day be Pope, and to be prepared. Mind you, tell him this." When Galletti relayed the message to Montini, the archbishop laughed and said, "Oh, these saints get some strange ideas!"

 

After the death of Pope John on June 3, 1963, Padre Pio's confreres pestered him to reveal the identity of the next pontiff. The padre tried to ignore then until the importunities of Padre Eusebio became unbearable. Finally he told him, "It's going to be Montini. Now will you be quiet. ..

 

Paul VI was disturbed by the restrictions that his predecessor  and the Holy Office had placed on Padre Pio and accused Cardinal Ottaviani of confining the Capuchin "like a criminal." ... Padre Clemente immediately removed the order that forced Padre Pio from restrictions to say Mass at irregular hours. He told him after he heard confession he could converse with whomsoever he chose. Once again he allowed lay people to gather in the sacristy to meet with him. 

 

So, as Pio had predicted to Emmanuele Brunatto, everything did, in fact, return to the way it was before. Asked to comment on the role Pope John XXIII in the Maccari Investigation, Padre Clemente commented in 1971, "Popes are men like ourselves; a lot depends on who is around them, like with President Nixon and Vietnam.... their conduct really depends on their counselors who surround them.... There were those who did not believe in Padre Pio's holiness. Pope John XXIII listened to those counselors, and because of them he imposed the rigid restrictions. There were other incidents that happened, but I cannot talk about them now - it would be improper for me to talk about them."...

 

Pio's depression was deepened by the failing health of his brother Michele, who was virtually bedridden at the home of his daughter Pia. Maria Pyle, although alert as ever, was failing physically. For years she suffered from extremely high blood pressure, and in her late seventies she became disabled from arthritis and a series of strokes...

George H. Kubeck