{"id":62,"date":"2022-12-20T22:57:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T22:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=62"},"modified":"2025-09-30T00:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:34:14","slug":"apropos-to-fr-pavone-here-is-how-st-padre-pio-handled-his-silencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Apropos to Fr. Pavone; here is how St. Padre Pio handled his own silencing."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"255\" src=\"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/6a00d8341cc5fb53ef02af148a1df4200c-200wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1186\" title=\"Padre-pio-on-the-rosary-samuel-epperly\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Go here &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aleteia.org\/2021\/07\/13\/how-st-padre-pio-responded-when-the-vatican-silenced-him\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\" target=\"_blank\">How St. Padre Pio responded when the Vatican silenced him (aleteia.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some in the Vatican worried that Padre Pio\u2019s fame was based on a lie and that people were following a false prophet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They launched multiple investigations and even planted <strong>secret listening devices<\/strong> to hear his conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were a few among the hierarchy who were bent on catching Padre Pio, and who insisted that he was fooling everyone and leading a double life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This culminated in an effort to move the beloved friar to a different monastery and to forbid him from acting as a priest in a public manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*********************<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the Vatican decided to restrict his faculties, <strong>removing him from public life<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Padre Pio is to be <strong>stripped of all the faculties of his priestly ministry<\/strong> except the faculty to celebrate the Holy Mass, which he may continue to do, <strong>provided that it is done in private<\/strong>, within the walls of the friary, in the inner chapel, and not publicly in church<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a difficult cross for him to bear, but he obeyed and submitted to the decree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The superior of the monastery read to Padre Pio the decree and the saintly friar responded, \u201c<strong>God\u2019s will be done \u2026 The will of the superiors is the will of God<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During this time many came to Padre Pio\u2019s defense, submitting petitions, writing letters and even publishing books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Padre Pio was <strong>appalled by this response<\/strong> and urged them to stop, writing to the local bishop to assert his dissociation with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*****************<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Above all, even though the accusations put against him proved false (and he would eventually be allowed to minister without restrictions), Padre Pio submitted to the decree and <strong>remained silent, trusting in God\u2019s provident plan.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Padre_Pio\">Padre Pio<\/a> was canonized a saint in June, 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go here &#8211; How St. Padre Pio responded when the Vatican silenced him (aleteia.org) Some in the Vatican worried that Padre Pio\u2019s fame was based on a lie and that people were following a false prophet. 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