Did Ms. Martha Fernández - Sardina get to meet both a current Pope & maybe even a future one??!!


From her article "Rome, my home sweet home," in Today's Catholic, May 7, 2010.


"Our journey began with the Wednesday papal audience at St. Peter's Square.

"Thanks to the press credentials of our own Father Gonzalo Meza, I was just six feet away from the pope.

"I called out to him with excitement, and upon reviewing my pictures I realized he looked right at me!"


LATER:

"With the future Church's first Black Pope?!"


"At the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace we were received by Cardinal Peter Turkson and staff.

"During our dialogue, he invited the [Archbishop José H. Gómez - founded] Catholic Association of Latino Leaders (CALL) to provide feedback on the pope's encyclical letter Caritas in veritate: On Integral Human Development in Charity and Truth.

"How humbling to be reminded that Vatican officials are truly interested in what lay men and women do in the world, and that our experience is of great value to them..."

All the more so when the cardinal in question is Cardinal Peter Turkson?

Who just may, someday, even become one of our future popes?

You can just bet on it! :)

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