Posted on 10/29/2021 10:14:00 AM PDT by ebb tide
In this episode of Holy Smoke, I interview Julia Meloni, author of The St Gallen Mafia: Exposing the Secret Reformist Group Within the Church. It's the first detailed study of the self-described 'mafia' of liberal cardinals who worked tirelessly to prevent and then undermine the pontificate of Benedict XVI. The book contains many disconcerting revelations, and also well-sourced speculation that the group's founder, the Jesuit scholar Cardinal Martini of Milan, may have visited Benedict shortly before his own death in order to pressure him to resign. By 2013, when that happened, Martini was dead, but he had given his blessing to a St Gallen candidate: his fellow Jesuit Cardinal Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, whose initiatives as pope – and particularly the vicious attempt to suppress the Traditional Latin Mass – coincide very closely with Martini's own agenda. Do listen to my conversation with Julia, formerly one of Pope Francis's biggest fans. I promise you won't forget it in a hurry.
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Many years ago I read that Pope Benedict was “forced” to resign under threat of death. I was SHOCKED to read that he had been receiving death threats. I’ve learned a lot about corruption in the Church since then.
There was a time when becoming pope meant it was understood you would die early and unnaturally.
Benedict was too old and frail to combat the homosexual agnostics that have permeated the hierarchy.
Craziest and most insidious of times. To think that the so-called two most powerful men onEarth are both imposters.
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It apparently is the Jesuits.
He was forced to resign. By liberals or the gay red-sash mafia. It wasn’t for health. He seems to be still alive.
He was replaced by the most corrupt head of state of them all.
I suspect it wasn’t just himself that was under threat of death, but also those close to him (like his late brother) or other vulnerable persons who are still alive.
An article that I read shortly after Benedict resigned said that if his resignation was not immediate, the Vatican Bank would be removed from the list of State banks allowed to transfer funds via SWIFT. That would have had a devastating effect on the Vatican’s ability to receive funds and pay their bills.
RCINC has thousands of years of unprincipled management experience to fall back on; this “forced retirement is nothing new to RCINC. Remember, RCINC is the oldest most profitable multinational corporation on the planet
That’s terrible, but in this case it’s still no excuse.
Meanwhile, now that he’s 90+ years old and his brother is dead, he doesn’t speak up.
Eventually, you all will realize that he, a Vatican II co-religionist and modernist, was also part of the plan.
As I said, there may have been others who were threatened and continue to be threatened. In the meantime, none of us really know for a fact one way or the other.
Meanwhile, millions of souls are at stake. Stop giving him excuses.
Not giving him excuses. That fact is we have no way of knowing the whole story. If you have ESP or insider knowledge unavailable to the rest of us, I bow to your superior knowledge. Good day.
I wouldn’t mind an answer like that if just once people like yourself ever entertained the possibility that he resigned of his own free will.
It’s always because of this or that reason typically because he was “threatened” ...despite the fact that he has said he resigned of his own free will.
Perhaps Benedict wasn’t all he was cracked up to be.
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