Order of Malta Votes in Favor of Accepting Festing’s Resignation (Pope pressured council)

National Catholic Register ^ | January 28, 2017 | Edward Pentin

[BlessedBeGod]

...The Register understands from sources inside the Order that just a “handful” of members voted to reject the resignation, and that the Holy See applied “very strong and direct pressure” on the Sovereign Council to accept Fra’ Festing stepping down as it was unsure that a majority would vote in favor...

The news of the vote has been greeted with dismay by some within in the Order as well as in the Holy See. One member told the Register he feared the sovereign Order, founded in the 11th century at the time of the First Crusade, “is finished”...

[BlessedBeGod]

Sorry, had to excerpt since it's from NCR.

...the Holy See applied “very strong and direct pressure” on the Sovereign Council to accept Fra’ Festing stepping down as it was unsure that a majority would vote in favor...

[Ouchthatonehurt]

It’s about money in the end I’m afraid.

[jobim]

The Dead Knights Society

"I have here a detailed description of what occurred
at your meetings. It describes how your teacher, Cardinal
Burke, encouraged you boys to organize this club and to
use it as a source of inspiration for reckless and self
-indulgent behavior. It describes how Cardinal Burke, both
in and out of the classroom, encouraged the Knights to follow
this obsession with condoms when he knew all along it was
against the explicit order of Pope Francis. It was Cardinal
Burke's blatant abuse of his position as Patron of the Order
of Malta that led directly to you, Grand Master Festing,
being expelled from the order."

"Sign the paper, Matthew!" said Pope Francis.

[ebb tide]

It’s about money in the end I’m afraid.

Of course it is:

The three and Boeselager have also been involved in a $118 million bequest to the Order held in a Swiss trust. The Register has asked both Boeselager and Archbishop Tomasi for details on the trust and their involvement but neither has so far responded.

Bergolio, at heart, is a money-grubbing dictator who pretends otherwise.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

With all due respect to cloud’s laudable defense of the Pope’s office - this occupant is hell bent on radically transforming Christ’s Church by engaging in the (oft cited) hermeneutics of rupture. If we are torn from the teaching and tradition of the Church Christ established, we are torn from Him.
Our Annual Cardinal’s Appeal will not be answered this year, and he will be told why.

[pax_et_bonum]

He’s intent upon destroying our Church.

[livius]

It’s about power. Bergoglio’s on-line alias should be Stalin.

[Joe Boucher]

This “pope”, is a communist a-hole.