What If The Catholics Are Right?

A reporter today said on morning news TV that for today's Obama meeting with the Pope it is unlikely that any reporter is going to shout rudely "Hey Bennie" or the like at the Pope to get
questions answered as one might shout at for example the Brazilian President because a certain amount of solemn reverence is due someone who is the titular and religious head of a BILLION people around the world. "What If The Catholics Are Right!" he said.

THE OTHER GUILIANI- Today's Saint.
Someone else deeply misunderstood and slandered for being so good they couldn't stand it.

St. Veronica Giuliani (1660-1727)
Veronica’s desire to be like Christ crucified was answered with the stigmata.
Veronica was born in Mercatelli. It is said that when her mother Benedetta was dying she called her five daughters to her bedside and entrusted each of them to one of the five wounds of Jesus. Veronica was entrusted to the wound below Christ’s heart.

At the age of 17, Veronica joined the Poor Clares directed by the Capuchins (a franciscan order). Her father had wanted her to marry, but she convinced him to allow her to become a nun. In her first years in the monastery, she worked in the kitchen, infirmary, sacristy and served as portress. At the age of 34, she was made novice mistress, a position she held for 22 years. When she was 37, Veronica received the stigmata. Life was not the same after that.
Church authorities in Rome wanted to test Veronica’s authenticity and so conducted an investigation. She lost the office of novice mistress temporarily and was not allowed to attend Mass except on Sundays or holy days. Through all of this Veronica did not become bitter, and the investigation eventually restored her as novice mistress.
Though she protested against it, at the age of 56 she was elected abbess, an office she held for 11 years until her death. Veronica was very devoted to the Eucharist and to the Sacred Heart. She offered her sufferings for the missions. Veronica was canonized in 1839.