Posted on 09/06/2013 10:58:03 AM PDT by massmike
Anna Romano, 35, couldn’t believe her ears when she picked up the phone a few days ago. On the other end of the telephone was Pope Francis himself, who called to offer to baptize her baby after she refused to have an abortion.
“I was just so surprised that he had telephoned me. He said that he had read my letter and he wanted to speak to me personally about it and reassure me that someone was worried about me,” Anna, hailing from Arezzo near Florence, told the Daily Mail.
Feeling humiliated, betrayed, and that she had no one else to turn to, Anna wrote to Pope Francis a few months ago about her crisis situation. She revealed that she was pregnant with the child of an already married man who had demanded she abort.
In her letter, Anna told the Pope that she would not have an abortion and that she had told the married man to “get out of my life.”
Anna never dreamed of a reply. Then, when she was on holiday, she received the surprising call.
During the call, Pope Francis reassured Anna that a “child was a gift from God, a sign of Divine Providence” and that she would “never be left alone,” Anna remembered.
When Anna told the Pope that she desired baptism for her baby but was afraid that her divorce and her being a single mom would be an obstacle, the Pope said that he would be her “spiritual father” and would baptize the baby himself.
Anna said that if the baby the Pope baptizes is a boy, then she will name him Francis.
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Wow! Imagine that story... I was baptized by the Pope!
Love that Francis -— he sure knows how to pope.
Wow. Okay, I’m not a Catholic but I’m seriously impressed by this man taking the time to make a phone call HIMSELF instead of handing that off to a secretary...that’s really impressive and it’s also an act of humility befitting someone worthy of the shoes of the Fisherman.
How many of you haters took part in an abortion?
How many of you haters are on your 2nd or 3rd marriage?
I believe what the Holy Father did was beautiful. We get baptized IN the Holy Spirit.
I think Pope Francis is showing himself to not be as insular as his predecessor. I am not Catholic, but I am impressed by him, and his way to deal with people on an individual basis.
God bless him!
“How many of you haters took part in an abortion?
How many of you haters are on your 2nd or 3rd marriage?”
Wow...you show a lot of judgmentalism yourself!
As for the story, what a great pope!
PS: I’m a non-Catholic!
What about Frances if it's a girl???
“Wow! Imagine that story... I was baptized by the Pope!”
Yeah, no pressure growing up with that! :)
Nice work, Pontiff.
I think it’s a great story, and I wish more Protestant leaders would walk the walk like this guy.
I also think your so-called “Catholic haters” are mostly a figment of your imagination, and you probably need to realize that theological disagreements between Christians are allowed and don’t necessarily constitute “hate”.
“I can’t wait to see all the nasty remarks the Catholic Haters make about this story.”
I agree that was nice.
My wife is catholic and she and her family will not forget his remarks to gays. I think most catholics go by the Bible. It is clear about man with man. I was raised presbyterian and I have no use for gays. “Tolerance is the last thing to go in a society.” Aristotle mentioned that.
We have been told to be tolerant of this, that, and; you name it. I am tired. It is high time we take our nation back and our values back, and; should we refuse to allow these clowns to push their BS on us via tolerance. I am not tolerating Obama and pals nor anything they believe in.
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BEAUTIFUL.
I have sorely neglected pinging, for many reasons. Lost track of a lot of articles I wanted to ping, too.
This one MUST get pinged later on.
So beautiful.
As a non-Catholic I agree, hats off to him.
Yep, I’m not really with him on governmental or economic issues, but he sure has a keen sensitivity on PR and the common touch.
Jesus did not tell Peter “you are the rock upon which I will build my Church” only to have that church become insular.
It has been one of my major problems with the Catholic Church. Pope Francis seems intent on fixing it.
“Jesus did not tell Peter “you are the rock upon which I will build my Church”...
You are correct.
He did say, “And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. “
Jesus is the rock! The chief cornerstone. Not Peter.
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