Appearance of Rainbow at Auschwitz during Pope's Visit

I have to admit, this story has stirred something in my soul. (Yeah, even more than all of my posts about Taylor Hicks.) Over the weekend the new holy father, Pope Benedict, was visiting the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. While he was there, an absolutely beautiful rainbow appeared in the sky. I know that the religious cynics will say that it was just a coincidence- personally, I don’t believe in coincidence. That this happened to this particular pope is so amazing. A couple of days before, the Holy Father celebrated Mass in Poland (the home of his predecessor Pope John Paul II)- 900,000 people attended!!! It gives me goose bumps just to think about it.



This is what a reporter said from the often liberal TIME Magazine-

Almost as if on cue, as Benedict's voyage to Auschwitz drew toward its close early Sunday evening, the wind picked up and a cool rain began to fall. The final ceremony began with the Pope pausing to pray at memorials in the different languages of the 1.5 million killed. But by the time he reached the final plaque, the rain had stopped, the umbrellas were tucked away, and the pack of reporters noticed that across the broad field of half-standing brick barracks of Birkenau, a vivid rainbow had appeared. The editors of TIME, like those who A. M. Rosenthal worked for back in the 1950s, would surely not normally consider this news. But on a day that the German Pope came to Auschwitz to ponder God’s silence, that surprising explosion of colors seemed well worth reporting.

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God bless!!!