Posted on 09/27/2015 6:17:24 PM PDT by xzins
Thank You.
That’s the problem. No Pope will act to rid the clergy of these vermin. They should be subject to local civil law and sent to jail. Just defrocking or reassignment is not enough. Whoever is Pope needs to have a set of balls.
Aside from the title “Pope Emeritus”, the situation was exactly as it is now, and was recorded that way in the history books. Celestine V resigned by his own design and a conclave began on 23 December 1294, ten days after his resignation. Benedetto Caetani was elected in his place as pope, taking the name Boniface VIII. Celestine V attempted to retire to his old life of solitude and was an ex-Pope for 2 years during Pope Boniface VIII’s papacy, where he was attended by two monks of his order, until he died at the age of 81 in 1296.
If Francis is an illegitimate Pope because Benedict is still alive, then so was Boniface VIII.
everything....
for later
I don’t buy conspiracy theories. I don’t see a whisp of evidence that Frankie’s not really the legitimate Pope or that any dark blackmail was going on. As you pointed out there was precedent for resignation/abdication.
But I’m fine with calling the jerk an “Antipope” anyway. ;d
“Exhibit A: your goofy Marxist manpleaser, francis. Divinely appointed, my eye.”
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A respectful capital for “Marxist” followed by a disrespectful “francis”. It’s obvious where your sympathies lie...comrade!
I read his books, which I consider prophetic, a long time ago - thanks for the reminder to reread them.
and when you check on Amazon, its a ridiculous price even for a nearly 20 yro book in paperback....but, I'm trying now to buy one off ebay....I want special books to be books, not an electronic readout like kindle...I like to hold the book in my hands..
sorry, for how you feel. Being safe is a hard thing to do.
Malachi Martin died in 1998 - he was brilliant. Former Jesuit, spoke 14 languages, professor, 3 PhDs, exorcist, author, etc.
He was also a Vatican insider and adviser to 3 popes.
He knew what was occurring, and what was coming, and he warned the world.
I posted this thread (as an editorial, not news, by Geoffrey Grider):
The Worship Of Pope Francis Proves People Are Ready To Receive Antichrist
I immediately generated about 25 comments in the span of a couple of minutes, and was then pulled, with the cryptic reason for so being "Jack Chick" - that was all the explanation given.
I had to look that name up, and even when I did some research on who this man was, it made absolutely zero sense to tie that man of decades ago from this editorial published 2 days ago. The website is current, deals with prophetic news and events, and comments on politics, foreign affair, economics, cultural trends (all this sound familiar?), and does so on a Biblical basis that looks for evidence of current events tying into the prophetic Scriptures.
Even some at FR wish to be willfully blind to the stark and horrifying reality that is surrounding us. These are dark forces outlined in Ephesians. Very dark forces, and we are witnessing prophecy unfold before our eyes.
Sadly no......there are way more LEFTISTS Cardinals now since they made Benedict retire.
I think BXVI would have resigned for only one reason: because he felt that his doing so was for the good of the Church and would protect the Church.
I don’t know what they did to threaten him, but he was certainly threatened. His health wasn’t bad, aside from the usual frailty of age. An Italian who managed to have a private interview with him in his “prison” on the Vatican grounds a couple of weeks ago said that he was frail, thin, and can only walk with a walker, but that his mind is clear and unchanged.
Don’t forget that in the months before, there had been the Vatileaks scandal where his butler, among others, had been filtering out private letters written by BXVI in connection with sensitive Church investigations of financial and moral corruption, particularly homosexuality in the hierarchy. This was at the same time that the Pope received the massive report on corruption, which he is said to have been so shocked by reading (because it detailed not only the doings of some powerful people by the collusion of so many others in covering it up and the existence of organized conspiracies) that he was massively weakened, even physically, by his shock and grief.
Personally, I think some of it had to do with Fr. Maciel, the Mexican founder of the Legion of Christ. He was a one-man festival of evil, but he had been protected for years, even by JPII - although in the latter case, it was because the Pope liked the orthodox order, the Legionaries of Christ, that Maciel had founded before he was seized by Satan. This investigation had already begun at the time of he death of JPII, and one of the very first things BXVI did upon taking office was to remove Maciel from the priesthood and basically send him to a monastic prison, where he died not long afterwards. But the investigation continued, leading into other areas, and I think it was something that happened in connection with these investigations that made this elderly group of corrupt leftist cardinals desperate enough to take action and do something to force out BXVI.
Ya can't have a conspiracy without the Masons!
I typed a lower case m. My browser auto-correct capitalizes Marxist, and I didn’t go back and change it.
To make it clear, I despise all Marxists as well as francis, who is one.
>> Even some at FR wish to be willfully blind to the stark and horrifying reality that is surrounding us. These are dark forces outlined in Ephesians. Very dark forces, and we are witnessing prophecy unfold before our eyes.
Yes, we were warned this would happen. “Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember?”
>> mostly throughout history its been Protestants who have attacked Catholics, just like here on FR....
I don’t have any problem with rank-and-file Catholics. They’re my brothers and sisters in CHRIST. I find the militant ones to be amusing, and sometimes annoying, but I’m not attacking them personally, I’m disputing their goofy doctrines.
Apparently, you're not the only one:
>> There’s no claim in Catholic doctrine that the Pope is “divinely appointed”.
Ah, thank you. So you admit that the whole cardinal election thing is a sham — a device of MEN, not of the Holy Spirit. And therefore I needn’t take anything that issues forth from the pie-hole below that silly hat as a proclamation of GOD on par with His Holy Scripture! Especially from the pie-hole of a commie pervert-enabler like francis.
The day is starting off right!
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