Posted on 03/02/2017 5:06:34 AM PST by BlessedBeGod
The London Times newspaper is reporting that a group of cardinals who supported Pope Francis now want him to resign and be replaced by Cardinal Pietro Parolin because they fear his reforms will cause a schism "more disastrous" than the Reformation. The Times article draws on a report by the Vatican expert Antonio Socci, a prominent Italian Catholic journalist.
Antonio Socci reports that it is the curial faction of the Holy See that backed the election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio out of "impatience with the rule of his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI" that now wants Pope Francis to resign out of fear of an impending schism. The Times reports:
A large part of the cardinals who voted for him is very worried and the curia . . . that organised his election and has accompanied him thus far, without ever disassociating itself from him, is cultivating the idea of a moral suasion to convince him to retire.
It was the latter faction who now believed that the Pope should resign and who would like to replace him with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, Mr Socci said. He believed that the group numbered around a dozen, but the importance of the members counts more than their number. Four years after Benedict XVI’s renunciation and Bergoglio’s arrival on the scene, the situation of the Catholic church has become explosive, perhaps really on the edge of a schism, which could be even more disastrous than Luther’s [who is today being rehabilitated by the Bergoglio church].
The cardinals are worried that the church could be shattered as an institution. There are many indirect ways in which the pressure might be exerted.
An expert on the Vatican gave this assessment of the latest development:
A good number of the majority that voted for Bergoglio in 2013 have come to regret their decision, but I don’t think it’s plausible that members of the hierarchy will pressure the Pope to resign. Those who know him know it would be useless. [He] has a very authoritarian streak. He won’t resign until he has completed his revolutionary reforms, which are causing enormous harm.
Antonio Socci reports that the significance of this development is that the group who want Pope Francis to resign are not the "conservative" cardinals who have opposed the Holy Father's innovations, "What was significant, he said, was that the doubters were not the conservative cardinals who had been in open opposition to the Pope since early in his reign."
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Prayer to St. Joseph, the Protector of the Church
Father, you entrusted our Savior to the care of Saint Joseph.
By the help of his prayers may your Church continue to serve its Lord,
Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
Well, they should have been careful what they wished for...
,,,and by some chance, might this guy, “Cardinal Pietro Parolin,” decide to be known as “Peter of Rome?”
That might be interesting.
Well we still have a living pope in Benedict XVI, perhaps they can find a way to give him back his authority and send Francis to Castle Gandolfo for a nice retirement.
There are other options, but this is Lent so I will refrain.
Apparently all is not rainbows and unicorns in the Vatican.
(You must click into this google translate web page to see Antonio Socci's original remarks in an English auto-translation. Copying not allowed.)
We have lost so many useful words in my lifetime. Heretic is one that applies perfectly here. Traitor and Perversion are others that would have applied to many modern issues.
Brilliant blog post.
Bezt “theory of everything” I’ve seen in a very long time.
“The cardinals are worried that the church could be shattered as an institution”
It isn’t the church that will be shattered. Christ has promised that the embodiment of the church will be with us forever.
Rather it is the Vatican that is dangerously close to dissolvement. With a heretic Pope running things, the Vatican SHOULD be destroyed.
Who WOULDN’T want this FAKE pope to resign?
This guy is an embarrassment to all Christianity, let alone the Catholic Church.
WHO can support this heretic?
He’s a pope Satan could love. (notice LACK of /s)
The position of “Pope” is like that of President.
“Even though I don’t support the president, I respect the office.”
Now, I couldn’t say that when Barack Obama was president.
I feel the same way about this pope. I can NOT respect the office while this heretic is pope.
HE NEEDS TO GO!!!
He is doing untold damage to the reputation of the office of the pope as well as Christianity at large.
Talk about the fox in the hen house, this is Satan in the papacy.
This peronista Pope cares more for social justice (Marxism) than souls...
...but if you could turn souls to Christ wouldn’t everything else just fall into place?
Are his minions falling by the wayside?
Did God change his mind, I wonder?
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