Posted on 01/27/2023 7:43:30 AM PST by ebb tide
Ping
I hope Benedict wasn’t the last Catholic pope, but it is beginning to look that way.
What did this pope do about these issues while he served as Pope?
Why do our people have to be such quitters? He should have stayed on as Pope until the bitter end.
That’s interesting, but it sadly shows a lack of courage actually.
I’m not saying I’m a better man, by any stretch, because I don’t know what all he was dealing with, and I”m probably a far greater sinner and certainly haven’t brought as many to Christ as he did.
I’m just left wondering, why did he break tradition and retire in the first place?
And why did he only write this in secret, verses air it publicly?
These issues he discusses seem important enough to have not been put on ice for years.
Its like Trump in DC. It doesn't matter what your ideas are, if you are subverted and harassed by opponents, and a corrupt bureaucracy at every turn.
There is strong circumstantial evidence too that the USA (Obama) used the power of the USD to force Benedict to bend to the will of his opponents, and resign. The Vatican Bank was temporarily cut off from SWIFT, under the pretext of "money laundering investigation" only to be turned on again immediately when Benedict resigned.
The catholic church has morphed into an international organization for criminal homos.
Are his essays available to read anywhere?
Did he do anything to bring the Pedo priests to discipline?
To eliminate gays in the Vatican?
That would be under his authority.
I wish the word “Bombshell” would be banned.
He makes more sense from the grave than the current fake pope has for his entire tenure
A pope is an absolute monarch with great power. So it bothers me that both John Paul II and Benedict XVI did next to nothing to rein in the homosexual mafia.
Here are two things I don’t believe. I don’t believe that either man was ignorant of the severity of the situation. And I don’t believe that either man was gay. So why did they do so little?
Was it personal cowardliness? Or was their desire to protect the Church greater than their desire to protect victims?
He put money and material of the RCC ahead of standing up for the truth?
Who said “be faithful unto death, and I will give you a crown of life”?
(quoting that off the top of my head.)
Yep, it’ll be tough to reverse the ravages that this Marxist pope has inflicted on the church.
No one knows exactly what took place.
Certainly, the Vatican is a global bureaucracy and government, of sorts
Again, probably much like the decisions Trump faced - In the face of attack and treachery - do you die, and take down your organization with you? Will the flock (ie. the sheep) even know or care? Or do you try to survive, and fight another day?
“I’m just left wondering, why did he break tradition and retire in the first place?
And why did he only write this in secret, verses air it publicly?”
He answered that...
“I do not want to publish anything else in my life. The fury of the circles opposed to me in Germany is so strong that the appearance of any word from me immediately provokes a murderous clamor on their part. I want to spare myself and Christendom this.”
In other words, he admitted that he lacked the courage to do what he knew needed to be done.
Like DC, the Vatican is also a swamp run by a deep state.
That's a great over-simplification of the Pope's power.
He's certainly not a religious dictator. Yes, he may pronounce absolutely on theological issues, but only happened once, in 1950. Otherwise, power is dispersed among the "Curia" and Cardinals. If functions rather like some medieval university, crossed with a minor royal court, crossed with a supreme court.
Power comes from age, position, reputation, law, and particularly precedent and TRADITION.
Much like our government, we try to disperse power to prevent corruption and perversity - and we also assume most people want freedom (or holiness). But when parasites enter, the people's minds are corrupted, and bureaucrats with evil intent agglomerate power, if one respects the original system and tradition, they can't simply be "eliminated."
I'm not making any justification. Again, with reference to our own government - I myself am trying to understand how great institutions become corrupted - and how they may be redeemed with a minimum of damage and violence.
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