Ana Torres Fonseca<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Forty-five years ago, Pope John Paul II survived an assassination attempt during a general audience in St. Peter\u2019s Square. The Turkish assassin fired two shots, striking the Polish pope in the torso and arm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Pope Leo XIV arrived in the square, he chose to stop at the exact spot where the attack took place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The attack happened on May 13\u2014the feast day of Our Lady of Fatima\u2014and Pope Leo also dedicated his catechesis to Mary as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
POPE LEO XIV<\/strong> The pope also concluded his catechesis series on Lumen Gentium, one of the key texts of the Second Vatican Council, which explains the figure of Mary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n POPE LEO XIV<\/strong> The Feast of Our Lady of Fatima comes just ahead of another major celebration in the Catholic Church\u2014the Ascension of the Lord, observed exactly 40 days after Easter Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ana Torres Fonseca Forty-five years ago, Pope John Paul II survived an assassination attempt during a general audience in St. Peter\u2019s Square. The Turkish assassin fired two shots, striking the Polish pope in the torso and arm. When Pope Leo XIV arrived in the square, he chose to stop at the exact spot where the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":90144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/EszZs6U_7Pk","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienza1305eng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienza1305int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90147,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90143\/revisions\/90147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Mary is the perfect model of what the whole Church is called to be: a creature of the Word of the Lord and mother of the children of God, brought forth through docility to the action of the Holy Spirit.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do I feel myself to be a living part of the Church, in obedience to the shepherds given by God? Do I look to Mary as a model, an outstanding member and Mother of the Church, and ask her to help me be a faithful disciple of her Son?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n