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Did Obama officials force Pope Benedict’s resignation? Open letter calls for Trump investigation
LifeSite News ^ | February 20, 2025 | LifeSite News

Posted on 02/20/2025 12:24:21 PM PST by ebb tide

Did Obama officials force Pope Benedict’s resignation? Open letter calls for Trump investigation

We are asking for an investigation into the affairs of our own government. It is not unprecedented for a corrupt government to attempt to insert itself into the life of the Church.

Shortly after the first inauguration of President Trump in 2017, an open letter was published in The Remnant Newspaper requesting an investigation into potential involvement by the Obama Administration in the affairs of the Catholic Church.  Specifically, the authors asked whether the U.S. Government was involved in the sequence of events that resulted in the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI on February 11, 2013 and the Conclave that elected Pope Francis on March 13, 2013.[1] This open letter was widely circulated throughout the world, but no action was taken during the first Trump administration.  Consequently, the questions that were raised remain unanswered.  

Questions in this open letter included the following:

We wish to draw attention once again to this letter, with the hope that the questions it contains will be answered. The second Trump administration shows itself willing to get to the bottom of difficult issues, so we believe that an in-depth investigation is now possible.  

To be clear, we are not asking for an investigation of the Church. However strange the behavior of the current Pope may be, and however much his agenda seems to align itself with that of the wealthy and powerful (Klaus Schwab, George Soros, and the U.S. Democratic Party), it is not our position to investigate the Pope and the bishops he has appointed. We are asking for an investigation into the affairs of our own government. It is not unprecedented for a corrupt government to attempt to insert itself into the life of the Church. There are numerous cases of this throughout history. It is certain that a government in which 51 intelligence officials would lie to the American people to steer an election [2] is not above attempting to steer a conclave. It is equally certain that a government obsessed with advancing transgender themes and abortion on demand would not be above meddling with a conclave if doing so could somehow advance their agenda.

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Several news outlets reported that various Vatican offices were electronically surveilled by the U.S. intelligence agencies, both before and during the 2013 conclave. [3]  If these allegations are true, the consequences of monitoring the conclave are significant.

We believe it to be the responsibility of loyal and informed United States Catholics to petition our government to authorize an investigation into these critical questions. Catholics throughout the world expect this of us. This open letter will be followed up with requests for declassification of general categories of documents and release of the same under the Freedom of Information Act.  

It must be restated that we are not requesting an investigation into the Catholic Church; rather, we are simply asking for an investigation into activities of a previous Obama-Biden administration, one that fomented various coups and color revolutions to overthrow governments around the world. Did the same administration force the resignation of a pope so that a prelate favorable to their agenda could be installed as pontiff?

Thank you again, and be assured of our most sincere prayers.

Respectfully,

David L. Sonnier, LTC US ARMY (Retired)

Elizabeth Yore, Esq., Founder of YoreChildren

Michael J. Matt, Editor of The Remnant

John Henry Westen, Co-Founder, CEO, Editor of LifeSiteNews

[1] https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/3001-did-vatican-attempt-to-influence-u-s-election-catholics-ask-trump-administration-to-investigate

[2] https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/the_intelligence_community_51-_how_cia_contractors_colluded_with_the_biden_campaign_to_mislead_american_voters.pdf

[3]  https://www.ncregister.com/blog/italian-magazine-says-nsa-listened-into-vatican-and-pope

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1https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/3001-did-vatican-attempt-to-influence-u-s-election-catholics-ask-trump-administration-to-investigate


TOPICS: Catholic; History; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: benedict; conclave; drc; francis; meddling; rcc; surveillance

1 posted on 02/20/2025 12:24:21 PM PST by ebb tide
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2 posted on 02/20/2025 12:24:48 PM PST by ebb tide (The Synodal "church" is not the Catholic Church.)
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To: ebb tide

I always thought some Marxist/Leftist group pushed him out. Maybe not specifically Obama.


3 posted on 02/20/2025 12:26:25 PM PST by madison10
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To: ebb tide

4 posted on 02/20/2025 12:27:24 PM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: ebb tide

And now, the mysterious illness that could soon end Pope Francis’ life. Is Francis being “offed” to prevent the DoJ/FBI from investigating whether the Vatican helped Catholic groups in the USA to bring illegal aliens into the country?


5 posted on 02/20/2025 12:31:05 PM PST by RayChuang88 (.FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: ebb tide
John Podesta, Hillary Clinton, and others tied to the Obama administration


6 posted on 02/20/2025 12:36:54 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

What are those pics?


7 posted on 02/20/2025 12:46:08 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: ebb tide
"Did Obama Officials force Pope Benedict's Resignation?"

That has been my belief since 11 Feb 2013. His resignation didn't make sense to me. It seemed like it was forced. I'd say the Kenyan did it.

8 posted on 02/20/2025 12:47:59 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The U.S. Government was never meant to be a jobs program.)
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To: ebb tide

The US Deep-state, in the form of USAID, CIA, DOJ/FBI (within the USA), working through their dozens of NGOs have attempted regime change in countless countries - and even the USA itself, with the constant attacks on Donald Trump

Why is it so illogical similar attempts, either from the USA or Brussels, wouldn’t be attempted on the Vatican??

In fact, it would be much easier than “flipping” an entire nation. No street protests are needed, no funding of opposition parties, no guerrilla groups or clandestine arms shipments needed at all

Just flip/blackmail a few Cardinals, and one’s job is done.

And then they control religious-political propaganda going out to 1 billion Catholics in the world, and they also cause disruption and demoralization among conservative Christian opponents.

Very useful indeed for the cause of globalist neo- marxism


9 posted on 02/20/2025 12:52:08 PM PST by PGR88
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To: FlingWingFlyer
His resignation didn't make sense to me. It seemed like it was forced. I'd say the Kenyan did it.

The media claim was "health" - but then he lived nearly another 10 years. Strange indeed.

10 posted on 02/20/2025 12:53:43 PM PST by PGR88
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Pope’s don’t resign or leave office. They stay until they die. ust the fact that Benedict left his position is suspicious and likely, unprecedented.


11 posted on 02/20/2025 12:58:33 PM PST by vivenne (7Come to think of it. )
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To: Ann Archy

They are in reference to the Spirit Cooking scandal in which both Hillary and Podesta were implicated.


12 posted on 02/20/2025 1:03:03 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Omg...ugh.


13 posted on 02/20/2025 1:05:01 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: madison10

I don’t think you need to look outside the Vatican to find a cabal of Marxists that wanted Benedict gone and had the wherewithal to make it happen.


14 posted on 02/20/2025 1:06:39 PM PST by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Exactly. It looked more like an inside the Vatican coup.


15 posted on 02/20/2025 1:17:48 PM PST by madison10
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To: PGR88
and they also cause disruption and demoralization among conservative Christian opponents.

That is the crux of the matter, and almost the entire point of it. They know the sheeple will fall in line regardless of how they do it. Hell 50% of the people (probably more than that) are below average intelligence/wisdom.

16 posted on 02/20/2025 1:18:14 PM PST by jurroppi1 (The Left doesn't have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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To: BenLurkin
I also recall seeing photos of Podesta wearing red shoes and other bazaar things.
17 posted on 02/20/2025 1:27:34 PM PST by NavyShoe
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To: vivenne

You feel the same way I do. I never heard of a Pope start getting nailed by the “media” and then being forced out of the Vatican by the far-left “media”. I immediately knew the far-left fascists were up to something.


18 posted on 02/20/2025 2:04:24 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The U.S. Government was never meant to be a jobs program.)
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To: ebb tide

God forbid the Pope decide to retire because he feels too weak to continue his job


19 posted on 02/22/2025 7:25:04 AM PST by lovingliberty1965
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