Catholics: Pope JPII Appeared In This Fire, You Guys

There’s no doubt that apparitions are the very best part of being Catholic. Whether it’s on your tortilla or your turd, you really never know when The Lord or His Moms might show up. Which is why we love this story about deceased Pope John Paul II showing up at his own memorial service in Poland last April in the shape of: Fire! Damn. Is he trying to tell us something? Like maybe he didn’t make it to the Vatican in the sky? Say it ain’t so, Papa:

The bonfire was lit during a service at Beskid Zywiecki, close to John Paul’s birthplace at Katowice, southern Poland, on April 2 - the second anniversary of his death.

Hundreds had attended the ceremony. Gregorz Lukasik, the Polish man who took the photographs, said: “It was only afterwards when I got home and looked at the pictures that I realised I had something.

“I showed them to my brother and sister and they, like me, were convinced the flames had formed the image of Pope John Paul II.
“I was so happy with the picture that I showed it to our local bishop who said that Pope John Paul had made many pilgrimages during his life and he was still making them in death.”

The apparition has also been confirmed by the director of Vatican News Services, a television station in Rome that broadcasts…well, Vatican News. They wouldn’t do something like that for ratings, would they?

The pictures were being broadcast continuously on Italian TV and also posted on religious websites, some of which crashed as thousands logged on to see for themselves the eerie figure formed by the flames.

Hmmm…perhaps that TV director will be visiting El Papa in the infierno soon.

Is this Pope John Paul II waving from beyond the grave? Vatican TV director says yes [Daily Mail]