Posted on 01/06/2023 6:41:40 PM PST by marshmallow
Cardinals express anger, bewilderment at 'scorched earth' papal homily
VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pope Francis foiled plans for a state funeral for Benedict XVI and ordered the scaling down of his predecessor's burial rites, Church Militant has learned.
Vatican officials involved in the coordination of the pope's emeritus funeral rites revealed that Francis personally intervened to deny Benedict the "shoulder procession" of his coffin being borne by pallbearers from the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery to St. Peter's Basilica.
Francis, instead, ordered Benedict's body to be transported by minivan from the pope emeritus' monastic residence to the basilica. An insider told Church Militant that this amounts to "denying him a worthy hearse."
"We had planned for the minivan to make a brief halt in front of Casa Santa Marta to symbolize the continuity between the two popes and to honor Francis as the reigning pope, but at the last moment, Francis said he no longer wanted it," the source added.
"The jealousy is really bad. Benedict did not deserve it," another insider said, lamenting that they were hearing "bad anecdotes of how the ruler is behaving."
Multiple sources confirmed that Pope Francis did not want an "official period of mourning" or for Benedict's body to be lying in state for an extended period. One cardinal said that it was a "deliberately cut-back affair."
"The funeral Mass was also deliberately timed for 9:30 a.m., as this would render it difficult for many faithful who were planning to come to the service from different parts of Italy to travel to Rome," sources said. No bells were rung to mark the passing of the deceased pope emeritus.
In fact, Francis wanted the "abbreviated" funeral to be held on Tuesday and discussed the possibility with Abp. Georg Gänswein, the personal secretary to Pope Benedict XVI and......
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“ Many congregants attending the Requiem Mass also complained that it was “a treatment that would not be reserved even for one’s worst enemy.”
True? Wow didn’t realize.
The homily talked about the pastor etc. It seems like it was designed for an ordinary priest who got into serious trouble.
I believe in God who will judge this pontiff.
or bury him with his buddies, the muslims.
One does not place an Argentine anywhere near a seat of power. They only respect football players, fascist military, and Spanish-educated Jesuit priests. Remember, they forced their greatest writer to become a poultry inspector, and their most famous poem deals with a gaucho who wins a knife fight.
Francis is an ass. He’s a SMALL MINDED MARXIST! Jesuits have become an embarrassment.
I do NOT care what Evil things Francis does because it has NO EFFECT on my ETERNAL SOUL and where it lands.
AMEN and your tagline deserves an AMEN also!!
Who still doesn’t believe that ALL religion is flawed because ALL religions are the constructs of flawed humans?
With idiotic posts like that, no wonder people think you’re Canadian.
Argentina also pioneered historic over ocean helicopter dropping.
And most of them seem to hate Americans, out of nothing but plain old envy.
Well, he did get in trouble! With the homosexuals, who then forced him out.
Awwww, thank you!!!
Example #1
Honorius I
He is chiefly remembered for his correspondence with Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople over the latter’s monothelite teachings. Honorius was posthumously anathematized, initially for subscribing to monothelitism, and later only for failing to end it. The anathema against Honorius I became one of the central arguments against the doctrine of papal infallibility.
Ben 9 was quite a character
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