The Pope’s OK

So we got a dress-rehearsal yesterday. Pope John Paul II rushed to a hospital after suffering from the flu for several days: this on top of his being nearly 85 years old, in declining health, susceptible to freak injuries, and thus slowing physical momentum, for over 10 years now. They say he’ll come out of this one OK, but frankly, it’s a harbinger of things to come. That he has hung on this long is incredible enough, but he can’t last forever….

Those of us who don’t quite accept the “John Paul the Great” mythos, and instead fear that he will indeed have much to account for in his long pontificate before the Divine Majesty, have thus all the more reason to pray for him — and the Church — in these, his last days.