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Peter the Roman is Still Coming!
I could tell you, but them I'd have to kill you. | Dangus

Posted on 03/26/2013 9:00:48 AM PDT by dangus

Half of Freeperdom seems to have been caught up in the speculation that Pope Benedict XVI's successor would be Peter the Roman, the final pope before the end of the world. But the gospel plainly said that you shall not know the day nor the hour. How can end-of-the-world prophecies be true AND the gospel be true? Simple: the end-of-the-world prophecies must be fulfilled in secret. But how?

Simple: Pope Benedict XVI is still the pope! Sure, other popes have resigned, but they quickly died afterward. Benedict hasn't even left the Vatican! Think about it: Pope Francis won't even wear the papal vestments. Oh, he's too modest, they say. No, it's because dear Pope Benedict still wears them.

But why? Now, when Pope Benedict dies, they can gather all the cardinals, supposedly for his funeral, and elect a new pope without the world even knowing.


TOPICS: Catholic; Humor
KEYWORDS: petertheroman; petrusromanus; pope; satire
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To: dangus

I just got dumber, for reading this.


21 posted on 03/26/2013 9:42:22 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
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To: KC_Lion
Does that translate romans eat donuts?
22 posted on 03/26/2013 9:42:46 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

While watching the installation Mass of Pope Francis, the TV commentators showed a close-up of the papal ring.

The papal ring has a depiction of St. Peter, the first pope,
holding keys.

Just throwing this tidbit of information out there.


23 posted on 03/26/2013 9:45:44 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (November 6, 2012.....A day that will live in infamy!)
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To: WildHighlander57

Holy Roman Church.

It’s a little tipoff that the prophecies of St Malachy are inauthentic, because it’s an unusual construction for when the prophecies were supposedly written (11th century), but not for when they were found (16th century).


24 posted on 03/26/2013 9:47:18 AM PDT by dangus (Poverty cannot be eradicated as long as the poor remain dependent on the state - Pope Francis)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

By that tortured logic, every pope has been Peter the Roman.


25 posted on 03/26/2013 9:48:34 AM PDT by dangus (Poverty cannot be eradicated as long as the poor remain dependent on the state - Pope Francis)
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To: mountainlion
It means "Roman Go Home!"

It's from Monty Python.

26 posted on 03/26/2013 9:51:19 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Wow!


27 posted on 03/26/2013 9:54:31 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, IÂ’m a conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: dangus

How so?


28 posted on 03/26/2013 9:54:44 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, IÂ’m a conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: dangus
The new pope is named after St. Francis of Assisi.

St. Francis of Assisi was born named Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, and is one of the two patron saints of Italy (i.e. Rome)

29 posted on 03/26/2013 9:57:44 AM PDT by null and void (If the government is so worried about civil disturbance, why are they working so hard to disturb us?)
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To: mnehring
Oh good grief. All around a prophecy the church doesn’t even acknowledge as real. I was hoping all this junk would go away when we obviously didn’t get a ‘Peter the Roman’.

Something has to fill the void left by the Mayan calendar.

30 posted on 03/26/2013 9:58:27 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Ransomed
“Think about it: Pope Francis won’t even wear the papal vestments.”

I just can’t see the order of albino assassin monks taking orders from someone named Francis anyhow.

The traditional papal vestments are dark...

...lighten up, Francis!

I can't believe I just typed that!

31 posted on 03/26/2013 10:01:41 AM PDT by null and void (If the government is so worried about civil disturbance, why are they working so hard to disturb us?)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Nearly every pope has been born and raised in Italy, with about half a dozen exceptions. But the one guy who is NOT from Italy is “the Roman” because he has parents who are from Italy? Please, it would make more sense if he were called “Peter the Not Roman.”

St. Francis of Assissi’s was born Giovanni di Bernadone. His FATHER was Pietro. Hence, Giovanni di Pietro di Berndadone. (Francesco was only a nickname, not a birthname.) So you’re basically saying that Jorge is Petrus because Jorge named himself Francis after someone who’s father was Pietro, which is Italian for Petrus. That’s two or three degrees of separation.


32 posted on 03/26/2013 10:02:37 AM PDT by dangus (Poverty cannot be eradicated as long as the poor remain dependent on the state - Pope Francis)
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To: OpusatFR
You know you can’t let your relatives live under bridges.

Even if you are the pontiff? ("Pontiff", literally "Bridge builder")

33 posted on 03/26/2013 10:03:15 AM PDT by null and void (If the government is so worried about civil disturbance, why are they working so hard to disturb us?)
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To: mnehring
It was satire.

Lighten up, Pope Francis.

34 posted on 03/26/2013 10:03:27 AM PDT by dangus (Poverty cannot be eradicated as long as the poor remain dependent on the state - Pope Francis)
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To: null and void

In Italian that means that Francis’ FATHER was named Pietro.


35 posted on 03/26/2013 10:04:11 AM PDT by dangus (Poverty cannot be eradicated as long as the poor remain dependent on the state - Pope Francis)
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To: mountainlion
Does that translate romans eat donuts?

No that's SPQR, or was that Silly People These Romans?

36 posted on 03/26/2013 10:04:40 AM PDT by null and void (If the government is so worried about civil disturbance, why are they working so hard to disturb us?)
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To: dangus

Yes, but Peterson is still part of his name.


37 posted on 03/26/2013 10:12:56 AM PDT by null and void (If the government is so worried about civil disturbance, why are they working so hard to disturb us?)
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To: null and void

SPQR: soni porchi questi Romani


38 posted on 03/26/2013 10:16:57 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: KC_Lion

That’s actually wrong. It says “Romans they go (present tense) home”, but “domus” is nominative case, which doesn’t make sense. I think “Romans go home” should be imperative (command, not statement), maybe something like “Romanes, Ite [ad] Domum!”.


39 posted on 03/26/2013 10:34:09 AM PDT by Campion ("Social justice" begins in the womb)
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To: null and void

I’ll get nervous when get to the Peterson Milanison part of Malachy’s list. ;^)


40 posted on 03/26/2013 10:35:29 AM PDT by dangus (Poverty cannot be eradicated as long as the poor remain dependent on the state - Pope Francis)
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