Posted on 03/14/2024 9:34:11 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
The Italian newspaper “Corriere della Sera” releases several passages from Pope Francis’ autobiographical book entitled "Life. My Story in History," written with Vatican journalist Fabio Marchese Ragona, set to be released on March 19 by HarperCollins.
In the passages released on Thursday, the Pope clarified that were he to resign, he would not choose to be called “Pope Emeritus” but simply “Bishop Emeritus of Rome."
In that case, he would live in the Basilica of St. Mary Major “to return to being a confessor and bring communion to the sick.”
The Pope clarified this possible scenario in case of his resignation, which, however, he emphasized, "is a distant hypothesis" because there are no "so serious reasons" to consider this possibility, which he said he never considers, "despite moments of difficulty."
There are no "conditions for a resignation," according to Pope Francis, unless "a serious physical impediment" arose, in which case a "letter of resignation" deposited in the Secretariat of State signed by Bergoglio at the beginning of his pontificate would apply.
He added that the possibility remains remote, since the Pope "is in good health and, God willing, there are many projects still to be realized."
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Easy fix to that statement. Sometimes elitist arrogance just oozes out of their pie holes.
Is the Pope Catholic?
< /rhetorical question>
Pope Emeritus gets a primo parking spot.
He needs to spend more time with his family.
He was.
Question to Dr.David Anders on Called To Communion: “If a Pope slips into a mental or physical condition others can see but he refuses to acknowledge is there a group at the Vatican that can remove him as Pope?”
Dr.Anders: No.
If such an office could ever exist, which it can’t, then yeah—pick your spot!
The Antichrist Emeritus.
Sankt Gallen mafia said to still be intact, yes.
Ouch...that’s gonna leave a mark!
IMHO Papa Frank is the poster child for Catholics to have another Conciliar Movement.
His national family has been happy to be rid of him these last eleven years.
Did Peter “resign”?
I think not.
The whole thing actually causes me to question some of the basic tenets of the (so called) “Catholic Church”.
Funny.
The Venerable Archbishop Fulton J Sheen:
Humphrey Bogart and I spent a little time together off and on. He told me “There are a lot of people who think they know al about Catholicism but frankly, even without being one I can stack my knowledge against just about any of them.”
Later in a conversation he asked me: “Was your father also a priest?”
But I’ve noticed a lot of bears using fast food restaurant rest rooms off the interstates.
As in, the guy who was pope was.
Perceived instability after centuries of utter stability will do that.
Bergoglio knows that all too well.
There is a two millennia-old Vatican bureaucracy that could govern through the pope’s skeleton on a pike if it wanted to. The pope does not need to retire so If Bergolio goes then the Vatican itself wants him gone.
That’s funny right there! 😂
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