Posted on 04/07/2005 6:20:29 PM PDT by MikeEdwards
Where is the prince of darkness lurking as the body of Pope John Paul II lies in state?
Plotting in the background, fomenting for the revolution called liberation theology and looking for cardinal candidates most apt to take up Satan’s never ending work.
The prince of darkness would be paving the way for a pope from the same "super force" that the late scholar, Vatican insider and best-selling author Fr. Malachi Martin warned us about.
"Anybody who is acquainted with the state of affairs in the Vatican in the last 35 years is well aware that the prince of darkness has had and still has his surrogates in the court of St. Peter in Rome," said Fr. Martin.
Even Nostradamus predicted an Anti-Pope for the Vatican.
With politically correct legions helping to advance the secular Culture of Death agenda, this is no time for the cardinal conclave to let their guard down.
According to the Vatican, there is no actual front-runner in the race to replace the Pope of the People. But it is the backdoor that hierarchy should be watching.
Claiming that "a Latin American moment" is a possibility in replacing the pontiff, FT.com Financial Times is suggesting, "the next pope could come from the region that boasts the biggest number of Catholics in the world."
"Certainly, that is what bookmakers believe," writes Richard Lapper, the Times’ Latin America editor.
Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras is one of the cardinals mentioned as a potential future pope.
Lapper described Rodriguez as a "62-year-old, charismatic left-leaning intellectual who speaks five languages". . . . .
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Get a pope from Venezuela who hates Chavez and communism.
Or one from Cuba who detests Castro.
How about that guy from Cuba?
Are any of potential pontiffs not left leaning?
I'm all for a third world Pope, but I have big concerns about a Latin American Pope. The one phrase I keep hearing to describe the Latin American frontrunners is "Social justice", a major red flag for me.
There are plenty. Arinze is definitely a conservative.
Thanks for answering. I'm glad to hear that.
Re and Ratzinger.
This whole pope wagering business sounds intriguing to me. The site PaddyPower is already accepting wagers on who the next pope will be. I'm putting all my cash on the next pope being Italian. The Catholic church couldn't have the foresight/insight/hindsight whatever to realize that with most Catholics in the world being Latin American, the pope should be the same way. The Vatican will never figure that out.
Ratzinger is definitely in the running, however, my money is on an Italian.
Looks like the Italians have done a fair job so far....there are over 1 billion Catholics. They obviously "figured out" something for the last 2000 years.
The Latin countries DO have to come up with more cardinals, bishops and priests. You play the odds, obviously. If Latin America wants a pope it has to come up with as many LATIN CARDINALS as there are Italian ones.
The "Vatican" doesn't "choose" the cardinals from nowhere; it's not exactly like politics as usual or like it was 500 years ago.
Cardinals actually have to have something going for them, like piety, brains, education, charisma -- you know, like Karol Wojtyla.
I have the same thinking -- red flag-o-rama.
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