This whole debacle over Donald Trump dressing up as the pope has many Catholics in the U.S. and abroad in uproar over what they believe is fickle mockery. At first I also thought that was so inappropriate, and more like him (an Evangelical Protestant 🤣), poking some silly fun at “the Micks”. But the more I thought on it, and the more I looked at that picture of him dressed so convincingly, the sudden realization hit me like something from outta somewhere amazing that he actually looks like one of the real-life Holy Fathers from our not-so-distant past!

As I reflected and prayed into it all the more, I thought of the time around the Apparation of Our Lady of Fatima and sensed that his face in that pose reminded me (from some vague recollection) of one of the popes who came after Leo XIII. So I Googled “Which pope came after Leo XIII?” and I discovered it was actually Pope Pius X.

Apparently, Pius X passed away 11 years after ascending to the Chair of Peter in 1903 and he was instrumental in formulating a coherent set of sequential volumes explaining Canon Law, and moreover, he was also very much opposed to modernist interpretations of Catholic doctrine coupled with him favouring a strong push for liturgical reforms amidst harnessing the wisdom of Thomistic theology! Wow!! Now, that’s truly something. I was also inspired to dream into this picture of Trump donning the papal attire and what came to me was the idea that he, Donald Trump could seriously make a good actor who is cast in the very role of playing Pope Pius X!….bearing in mind that he would make a far better Hollywood actor than a politician 👌 😆 Again, this just wowed my heart, only because I envisaged that such a movie which has a seriously Catholic theme, similar to the recent release of a fabulous docudrama called The Great Warning, and which is incidentally based on the book of the same title, written by Christine Watkins, would be an absolute eye-opener for indeed the whole world, into the marvelous, yet sometimes frightening but necessary prophecies of our time.

See, I would bid this movie centre around first the vision of Pope Leo XIII and what this poses for our Church, the world, our times, and the future. Then it would traverse forward from that to the papacy of Pope Pius X, who Donald Trump would be most suitably cast to play that role.

Then following Pius’ pontificate, we see another unfolding of a Great Warning that comes after the world has plunged itself into the quogmire of global conflict, the size, scale, and impact of which had never been seen for centuries. This of course, all opens out in some ways as a result of Pope Leo XIII’s vision, which then sees the Blessed Mother stepping into the fray as mediatrix through the apparations at Fatima, Portugal in 1917. Then from there we see how she, as Our Lady of Fatima, was giving us, all of humanity that is, her children, her maternal advice to help us out of the sin, error, and trepidation that our lack of conscientious adherence to God’s ways and the sheer blatant disregard which the cold-hearted militaristic logic of impulsive political maneuveres show vis-a-vis the values of the Gospel’s Law of Love have brought us into. For she did so lovingly forwarn, should nation persist in raising sword against nation, instead of beating these swords into ploughshares, an even worse war would follow. And sure enough it did. Fast-forward to the time of St Faustina (1930s) and see how yet again another plea from Heaven above shakes up the complacency of a world taken in so swiftly, starkly, and almost as though from behind….by the treachery and deception of the Evil One. Yet God still pleads everso beckoningly to us through the message Jesus entrusted to St Faustina concerning His Mercy and how He wishes and so earnestly wants for it to triumph over judgement.

Make of this what you will, but there is definitively something here to be discerned.

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