Posted on 07/20/2015 6:19:19 AM PDT by marshmallow
The latest interpretation of Benedict XVI’s resignation was given in recent weeks by Fr. Silvano Fausti, a Jesuit who was Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini’s confessor. Right before he died last month, Fr. Fausti granted a video interview and recounted that during their last meeting Cardinal Martini had told the current Pope Emeritus that the Roman Curia was not going to change, so it would be good if he were to resign. According to Fausti, Martini said this to Pope Benedict as if he were reminding him of an old agreement between them. That resignation paved the way for Pope Francis, whom Fr. Fausti admires.
But this story must be decoded. It is now evident that in order to understand the reasons why Pope Francis was elected, one needs to return to the 2005 conclave. Benedict XVI was elected during that conclave, but maneuvers behind his back never stopped. Benedict XVI’s pontificate was constantly under attack at every level. The old hands of the Curia, in particular, could barely stand his rule.
The pontificate was so barely tolerated that a cardinal who took part of the conclave leaked his diary of the event – an unprecedented move in the history of the Church. According to that diary, in second place for the pontificate was Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who went on to be elected pope during the following conclave.
Was the leaking of the diary the beginning of an eight-year-long campaign for Bergoglio? No one can say. Certainly, Fr. Fausti’s revelations – he died June 24 at the age of 75 – generate a narrative that must be deciphered.
According to Fr. Fausti, Cardinal Martini, already gravely sick, met with Benedict XVI on June 2, 2012, on the occasion of the World Day of Families in......
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I am reminded of my history, of the Borgia Pope Alexander VI.
Is Pope Frank a Simoniac?
So the pope had a role in bringing together Obama and the Castro brothers? Birds of a feather... I’m sure the catholic faith was not the common thread.
So nice to belong to a church where the leadership uses Mafia tactics on one another.
Then don’t.
Where do you think the mafia learned their tactics?
Clearly the same puppet-master is manipulating the strings of Obama and this Pope.
No Mafia bashing!
It now looks as though Ratzinger saved us from eight years of Bergoglio.
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