Holiness

yesterday at the Vatican, and man, he looked happy to see Bob showed up there with his black robe on and to meet the Pope.

His holiness was fondness for the revered songwriter in his book, and Dylan is on his European tour, so...

He stopped in to see the Pope.

Usually you think, man, it doesn't, I mean, you have to drop some money to see the Pope.

I'd like to meet the Pope.

I'd like to meet the Pope.

And His Holiness said, okay.

In the story, it talked about how he has met with Bad Bunny this year.

And he never refuses pardon and grace to those who ask it with a truly contrite and humbled heart.

Saint Charles then asked His Holiness to grant him one favor and the Pope acquiesced.

Saint Charles said, The favor I most earnestly beg is that as you have a short time to live, you lay aside all worldly business and thoughts and employ your strength and all your powers in thinking on your salvation and in preparing yourself to the best of your power for your last passage.

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His Holiness received this tender advice with great comfort, and the Cardinal gave strict orders that no one should speak to the Pope about any other subject.

St. Charles administered viaticum and extramunction to the dying pontiff.

Let us pray for the holy souls in purgatory.

And people say, why do I focus on the extremists? Because the

extremists have the initiative and because, I haven't started yet, His Holiness the Pope condemned what? The cartoons.

The State Department condemned the cartoons, not the violence, not the campaign of intimidation.

The Archbishop of Canterbury condemned the cartoons.

Every church I know of condemned the blasphemy of the cartoons, not the campaign of murder and sabotage.

The same with Salman Rushdie.

when the Ayatollah Khomeini offered money, money, publicly, in his own name, without shame, for suborning of murder of a novelist, the Cardinal Archbishop of New York, the Chief Rabbi of Israel, His Holiness the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury, all condemned what? The novel, the author, for blasphemy.

Now get used to this because you may be living in the last few years where you can complain about it.

And I think that's the only way we can actually make progress.

And, you know, there's an example, as all His Holiness, the head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community has said once, that sticks to me.

that something as pure as water, if it stays in one place, even that starts to smell, right? So we always must make progress.

So I went there to learn myself as well and remind the others as well so that I can make progress.

You know, this is currently the situation we

can see in many countries.

I just want to say what His Holiness has been, Hazrat Mirza Masood Ahmad, the fifth caliph of the Promised Messiah, may Allah be his helper, has been saying now for some time.

And that is that there is unrest around the world.

The Vatican confirming the Chicago-born Pope Leo submitted a mail-in ballot in the city ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections, becoming the first pontiff to ever vote in a U.S. general election, saying the Holy Father expresses his belief in the right and the duty of citizens to participate in democratic processes.

The statement went on to say His Holiness had previously voted while living in Peru, where he was a missionary priest and bishop for over two decades.

The Pope requesting the mail-in ballot days before undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his right lung.

He has been recovering and getting back to activities after being released from the hospital on October 17th.

what I want to say about Rinpoche is, it's quite amazing that we have someone like Rinpoche here in the United States.

Rinpoche studied with his Holiness Jimmy Poonchok in Varangarh.

So not only that, but also studied with his Holiness panel Rinpoche at Namdulin.

It's quite amazing that we have someone who has got the complete and highest teachings directly from the source, so pure.

And Rinpoche has been so kind to spend the last 25 years in the West, teaching Western students these highest teachings.

So this is like a precious thing, yeah? I have one more question.

So something you spoke about last time which struck me, very, it really struck me.

And you talked about an occasion, you know, in Tibet when you were at the monastery and with this great master, His Holiness Jigme Phuntsok.