Going to Rome and want The Pope To Notice You? Bring A Cat!!

The Pope's love of cats and especially the vast homeless cat population is well known. I am suprised the Vatican has not become feline paradise yet.

The above is in front of Saint Ursula in the neighboring town of Vigo where the Pope was spending his vacation. SMART PARENTS!!! I read a newspaper account of this here on the Ratiznger forum( a must to visit everyday) and also that Altar boys and other children from a Nursey School were singing "Always with the Pope, to the death."

What a song. We should teach it in CCD. Some how I think I have missed it in the Glory and Praise hymnal.

To end up this Papal group of posts, I found this wonderful story also on the Forum that shows the humor of the Holy Father and his goodness. We are truly blessed. Christ never promised that the all our Pop's would be Saints, or be able to explain his message in terms we can understand, or they would be joyful. Some have not. We have one though now that has all those qualities and so much more.

Radio Vatican's Amedeo Lomonaco interviewed a couple of persons the Pope spoke to during his lakeside stroll:

Marcello De Deppo came across the Pope in the vicinity of the little church of Our Lady of Health: "I had gone for my customary walk by the lake, cetainly not expecting to see the Pope! Then, suddenly I saw a man dressed in white walking in my direction. 'Oh goodness, could it be the Pope?' I thought. I was about 50 meters away, so I stepped out to the side of the road, and I instinctively clasped my hands together in front of me.

"Then he saw me, and started to approach me. I heard his secretary tell the security escort, 'It's all right.' So I went forward to meet him and I said, 'The Lord has made this possible!' and he answered, 'Divine Providence is great.' "It was an indescribable emotion for me, because I also happen to be a very religious man. I thought of all that I had read before about unexpected meetings with a Pope. And here it had happened to me. I was truly very moved. All night, I could think of nothing else but the Pope."

Lot of great pics and other stories on that page.