And here are a few of them:
Posted on 06/06/2022 3:14:01 PM PDT by ebb tide
Francis has fueled speculation that he may resign after announcing an usual visit to L’Aquila, which hosts the tomb of St. Celestine V, the last pope to resign before Benedict XVI.
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis might be resigning according to the Associated Press.
The AP reported that “Italian and Catholic media have been rife with unsourced speculation that the 85-year-old Francis might be planning to follow in Benedict’s footsteps who also resigned when he was 85.”
Recently the Pope has been seen traveling via wheelchair as illness and mobility problems have caught up with him in his old age.
Francis expressed his intention to visit L’Aquila in August for a feast associated with Pope Celestine V – the last pope to resign before Pope Benedict XVI.
Francis will visit L’Aquila and say Mass on August 28 and open the “Holy Door” at the basilica hosting Celestine’s tomb. This will take place the day immediately after the consistory on August 27 where he is set to make a slew of new cardinals, 16 of whom are voting age.
The visit coincides with the L’Aquila church’s celebration of the Feast of Forgiveness, which was created by Celestine V.
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The timing of the August consistory is also curious according to the AP for another reason: “The Vatican and the rest of Italy are usually on holiday in August to mid-September, with all but essential business closed. Calling a major consistory in late August to create new cardinals, gathering churchmen for two days of talks on implementing his reform and making a symbolically significant pastoral visit suggests Francis might have out-of-the-ordinary business in mind.”
The basilica in L’Aquila hosts the tomb of Pope Celestine V, a hermit pope who resigned after five months in 1294. Benedict visited L’Aquila in 2009 after a devastating earthquake and prayed at Celestine’s tomb, leaving his pallium stole on it.
“No one at the time appreciated the significance of the gesture,” wrote the AP. “But four years later, the 85-year-old Benedict would follow in Celestine’s footsteps and resign, saying he no longer had the strength of body and mind to carry on the rigors of the papacy.”
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EWTN host and Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo opined that the Pope’s failing health has much to do with why he might resign.
In 2015, on the second anniversary of his ascension to the Papacy, Francis told Mexican broadcaster Televisa that he was open to resigning. “I share the idea of what Benedict did,” he said, referring to his resignation. “In general, I think what Benedict so courageously did was to open the door to the popes emeritus. Benedict should not be considered an exception, but an institution.”
The pope goes slow because he wants to be sure that the changes have a deep impact. The slow pace is necessary to ensure the effectiveness of the changes. He knows there are those hoping that the next pope will turn everything back around. If you go slowly it's more difficult to turn things back… . You have to realize that he is aiming at reform that is irreversible.
Ping
At this rate, the Vatican will have to build an old-popes home.
The fastest way to confirm this is watch to see if the liberal Snowflakes are checking the dumpsters looking for a new Poop. When they found this guy I think they thought he’d last a little longer than he did. They’ll never find another Frankie. I smell a “historic” first homosexual pope comin’ down the pike.
Explains why he’s been appointing so many pedophiles to high positions. Ge doesn’t want his evil destruction of the Church to be reversed. What better way than to fill the leadership slots with like-minded criminals.
This would be good news except we know whoever replaces him will be worse.
Is the pope even allowed to resign?
I know. I’ll look in the Bible and see what God‘s word says.
He has appointed 96 Cardinal who will have a vote for the next Pope.
He’s 85, bad knee, and pretty fat. Not a good combination.
Who knows.
2 living “ex-Popes”?
Will the new one be named lucy-fur?
Rumor has it he is refusing to have a necessary surgery
Yep.
Should Bergoglio resign and a new one elected, we will be in a unique moment in history where we have 3 living popes at the same time.
Not for long.
I assume he would have the best care. Maybe just old age, and it doesn’t bother him as much as it concerns others.
I'm not Catholic, but I remember when Popes were.
I still consider myself a Catholic but the church lost me. I prefer my religion to be between myself and the Lord.
The greater potion of the high leadership of the Catholic church is satanic now.
The New World Order wants a new ImPopester?
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