{UAH} Pope Paul VI to be beatified on October 19, 2014

News about the beatification of another very great Pontif, Pope Paul VI was

officially announced two days ago after Pope Francis officially approved

a miracle attributed to the intercession of the late Pope at a special reunion.

October 19 this year has been chosen because it will be the day that the global

synode of bishops on family will officially close following weeks of deliberations and

debate in Rome. Pope Paul Vi attached much value to family and to life.

His beatification had been carefully planned by Pope Benedict XVI who declared him

Servant of God and later Venerable.

Pope Francis is said to reward Paul VI for having opened the Church to the world and to other religions

and for having thus been the person to give continuity to Vatican II which wanted the Church to expand

to new horizons. Pope Paul VI travelled on all continents to promote this spirit. In Africa, he chose to come to Uganda

whose martyrs he had canonized, and he was very warmly received by the millions of African pilgrims

who flocked Kampala for the occasion. 

The miracle eventually permitting this beatification has been studied for twenty full years. It concerns a young American

lady in California who was pregnant but had some cancerous problems on the foetus, which was found completely

deformed. the doctors advised her to accept abortion because any kind of aid leading to birth it was proved impossible.

And she was probably to die in the process. The lady refused and referred her case to late Pope Paul VI to whom she

prayed for a miraculous cure. Her prayers were heard and a further medical exam found the organ properly intact and the

lady delivered correctly and without any slight complication. This puzzled the doctors and other specialists who could not

scientifically explain the success of such a cure and eventually the birth itself!

So our Pope Paul VI who so much liked Africa and the Africans is now through! May the Lord be blessed and praised!

Dr G.H. Kkolokolo  ( Paris / France )