Posted on 09/07/2016 3:17:51 PM PDT by Gillibrand
At 8 pm, the Swiss Guards closed the gates of the Pope's summer palace in Castel Gandolfo. Then they left their posts. So they demonstrated on 28 February 2013 that Benedict XVI was now Supreme Pontiff emeritus, a Pope retired. Benedict retired to a convent in the Vatican and vowed to continue to live like a monk and leave the field to the successor.
Benedict however cracks open the doors again this Friday...
(Excerpt) Read more at cathcon.blogspot.co.uk ...
Why did her retire? John Paul II was a withered man but he stayed until the end. The few times I’ve seen photos of Benedict since he retired he seemed quite robust so I’m not buying the “health reasons” line. Forced out over threats of scandals?
I suspect that Benedict was overthrown in a coup and that he did not retire. The gay mob that runs the RCC saw this good man as a threat to their power and they ousted him in favor of a secular socialist who’s probably a closet homo.
excellent post, thank you for posting.
P.S. I bkmkd the webpage...
From the article :
“... the book is easy in style and anecdotes. The reader learns that the young theology professor Ratzinger often played “Ludo”, was blackened as a heretic and liked “carousing” during the Second Vatican Council in Trastevere. Other passages are significant.
He tells how much his election as Pope burdened him. However, he did know precisely, as a former prefect of the CDF, the dark side of the Church. Paedophile priests, opaque finances and corruption were the “dirt” in the church which he wanted to eliminate. But they were persistent. “Of course I wanted to do more than I could.” After all, he had sacked hundreds paedophile priests and smashed a homosexual old boy network in the Vatican. “Whether that has formed again, I do not know.”
He underestimated the political significance of his Regensburg speech
Benedict openly acknowledges that he underestimated the political significance of his Regensburg speech. It was released worldwide in 2006 to violent protest from Muslims. In contrast, he blames staff for the affair of Holocaust denier Bishop Williamson, whose excommunication Benedict lifted in 2009. They gave him bad advice. Thereafter, a “huge propaganda campaign was unleashed against me”.
The former Archbishop of Munich sharply judges the Catholic Church in Germany to the Court. He complains about “a well-established and highly paid Catholicism” along with “over dependence on unholy bureaucracy”, a “theorization of faith” and a “lack of a living dynamism.”
Benedict sounds rather more gentle when he talks about Francis. His choice completely surprised him and initially unsettled him. But then the cordial dealings of his successor with people have made him happy.
Francis emphasises different things, but there are no contradictions. Do you have to believe it? More clarification is probably not to be expected from Benedict. The title of the book is: “Recent Conversations”.
Excerpt) Read more at
Clickbait?
How can you oust a pope who doesn’t want to be ousted?
Blog pimping?
“How can you oust a pope who doesn’t want to be ousted?”
I suppose we’ll all find out at noon on January 20th, 2017.
beautiful yet extravagant, Muenster..etc..has anyone seen the new popes throne? It looks demonic, skulls and a distorted christ..weird..
look up popes new trone
You’re a few decades late there Francine!
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