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Did St. Faustina warn us about Pope Francis?

On the very day Pope Francis was born — December 17, 1936 — St. Faustina wrote a troubling diary entry.
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(LifeSiteNews) — Today is December 17, the birthday of the late Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, born in 1936.

I can’t help but wonder whether we were given a prophetical warning about him through St. Faustina Kowalska, the great saint of Divine Mercy.

On the very day Pope Francis was born — December 17, 1936 — St. Faustina wrote the following in her diary:

I have offered this day for priests. I have suffered more today than ever before, both interiorly and exteriorly. I did not know it was possible to suffer so much in one day. I tried to make a Holy Hour, in the course of which my spirit had a taste of the bitterness of the Garden of Gethsemane.

The Garden of Gethsemane, of course, is the place where Our Lord was betrayed by one of His own apostles — Judas Iscariot.

That connection is, at the very least, sobering.

John-Henry is the co-founder and CEO of LifeSiteNews.com. He and his wife Dianne have eight children and they live in the Ottawa Valley in Ontario, Canada.

He has spoken at conferences and retreats, and appeared on radio and television throughout the world. John-Henry founded the Rome Life Forum, an annual strategy meeting for life, faith and family leaders worldwide. He is a board member of the John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family. He is a consultant to Canada’s largest pro-life organization Campaign Life Coalition, and serves on the executive of the Ontario branch of the organization. He has run three times for political office in the province of Ontario representing the Family Coalition Party.

John-Henry earned an MA from the University of Toronto in School and Child Clinical Psychology and an Honours BA from York University in Psychology.

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