PADRE PIO WAS NEVER STRIPPED OF ALL HIS FACULTIES
Over at Goodreads, a lovely lady, Emily who is passionate about Catholicism has left me a thorough and detailed review . I am indebted to her for reading Padre Pio and You with such care that she gave her time to leaving a generous 748 word assessment, giving future readers a real taste of the book, which includes, "T his book also presents the very real and human side of Padre Pio. He endured terrible dark nights, was ruthlessly attacked by the devil". I, however, left her a note underneath asking for a few things to be amended, including the old canard that " Sometimes Pio’s faculties were stripped completely". In the 1931 - 1933 time frame known as "the imprisonment" Pio was confined to the monastery and only had the faculty of offering Holy Mass. But to offer Mass privately as Pio did means he had the faculty to do so. Since I was in my 20s (so long and far away), I was told by people who despised him that Pio was stripped of all faculties. All att...
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