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Democrat Fingers in the Vatican Pie: Did Obama Force Benedict’s Abdication?
OnePeter5 ^ | 8/11/17 | Alessandro Rico

Posted on 08/11/2017 6:38:45 PM PDT by marshmallow

On May 17, I published an article in the Italian newspaper La Verità about pope Benedict’s abdication. A few days before, in a renowned Italian geopolitical magazine called Limes, Professor Germano Dottori had argued that Joseph Ratzinger’s 2013 abdication, and the former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s resignation in 2011, after a financial storm sold to public opinion as a “public debt” crisis, were the result of pressures on the part of Obama administration in the United States.

According to Dottori, Obama was eager to dethrone Benedict XVI for two reasons. On the one hand, his presidency was close to fundamentalist Islam (de facto fostered by regime change in Libya and Egypt and civil war in Syria, provoked by U.S. former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy design), whereas Ratzinger, ever since his famous Regensburg lecture, had been identified internationally as a strong opponent of Islamism. On the other hand, Obama was worried about the Church’s reconciliatory efforts toward Moscow’s Orthodox patriarch, within the scope – Dottori wrote – “of a geopolitical project aimed at European-Russian integration, actively supported by Germany and Italy.”

The Obama administration may have resorted to two instruments: fostering scandals within the Church and the Italian government and threatening to drain away Italian and Vatican financial resources. Italy was at risk of being excluded from international financial markets. The menace against the Vatican was to bar the IOR (Instituto per le Opere di Religione, the Vatican bank) from the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) network. Taking as an excuse the fact that the IOR did not abide by international rules of transparency, Deutsche Bank (which runs point-of-sale payment systems in the Vatican and was suspected by Bankitalia of hosting an IOR account where all money earned within the Vatican converged) had.......

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TOPICS: Catholic; History; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: antipope; benedict; benedictxvi; homosexualagenda; italy; josephratzinger; popefrancis; romancatholicism; silvioberlusconi
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Then there's this, tucked away at the end of the article:

According to Laporta, Milone was nosing around in the ambiguous maneuvers alleged to have brought about an approximately $1-million donation to Hillary Clinton’s electoral campaign, taken from Peter’s Pence. Rumors about it were already circulating in February 2016, when Laporta gathered leaks by a secret source, ironically called “Pretino” (“Little Priest”), who declared that the Vatican was providing Clinton with financial aid

For non-Catholics, Peter's Pence is a collection taken up once per year, in all Catholic churches on the planet, ostensibly for supporting the Pope's works of charity to those in need and the needs of the Universal Church.

1 posted on 08/11/2017 6:38:45 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

So its bundling for jesus


2 posted on 08/11/2017 6:41:02 PM PDT by al baby (May the Forceps be with you Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: marshmallow

In response to the title of the article, I wouldn’t be surprised.


3 posted on 08/11/2017 6:51:41 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Lock her up!)
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To: marshmallow
According to Laporta, Milone was nosing around in the ambiguous maneuvers alleged to have brought about an approximately $1-million donation to Hillary Clinton’s electoral campaign, taken from Peter’s Pence.

If true, there's no place in hell low enough for Francis, said even as I pray a rosary every day for his conversion.

4 posted on 08/11/2017 6:57:32 PM PDT by BlessedBeGod (To restore all things in Christ~~Appeasing evil is cowardice~~Francis is temporary. Hell is forever.)
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To: marshmallow

Ping for later.


5 posted on 08/11/2017 7:06:30 PM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: marshmallow

Interesting fact - Peter’s Pence was begun by Alfred the Great.


6 posted on 08/11/2017 7:13:18 PM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: marshmallow
Obama and the Catholic Church go back a long way.

The Catholic Church funded Obama’s education in Saul Alinski’s community organizing techniques and Obama honed his organizing, especially his favorite tactic of using groups of violent protesters to visit the homes of his targets in the middle of the night to intimidate them (think BlackLivesMatter and Occupy Wall Street) and scare them into rolling over for him.

Obama is very well tied to the radical homosexual wings and the activist Liberation Theology wings of the Catholic Church. (Pope Francis is seemingly sympathetic to both,BTW )

It does not take a stretch of the imagination to suspect that Obama was one of several external influence groups that worked to depose Pope Benedict and install Pope Francis

The National Review covered Obama’s past alliance with Progressive Catholic leadership

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/373994/truth-about-obamas-catholic-roots-stanley-kurtz

7 posted on 08/11/2017 7:15:55 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: marshmallow

The same people that were behind the Kenyanesian Usurper are behind the fake Pope.
Both are illegitimate.


8 posted on 08/11/2017 7:43:11 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: marshmallow

I suspected this the day after the commie pope took over and Benedict stepped down.


9 posted on 08/11/2017 7:45:35 PM PDT by BuffaloJack
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To: marshmallow

isn’t is illegal for Hillary to accept that donation ?


10 posted on 08/11/2017 8:00:54 PM PDT by stylin19a (Lynch & Clinton - Snakes on a Plane)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Obama had enough intel and smarts to know Bergoglio came in second to Ratzinger in the papal election. So it was reasonable to believe he would become Pope in a new election. Also with his Progessive contacts it is clear that Obama would know much about Bergoglio’s progressive, marxist beliefs.


11 posted on 08/11/2017 8:11:07 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: marshmallow

Finally, an analysis that makes sense.


12 posted on 08/11/2017 8:19:19 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: Mrs. Don-o; Salvation

Ping!


13 posted on 08/11/2017 8:20:36 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: marshmallow

Any proof?


14 posted on 08/11/2017 8:24:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: marshmallow

I’ve always suspected that Benedict stepping down was the result of secular political powers putting pressure on him, especially considering the Communist Anti-Christ who took his place.


15 posted on 08/11/2017 8:31:59 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Yep they are all tangled together except for Trump , us, and few other smaller Countries and their working on all of them


16 posted on 08/11/2017 8:48:05 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: marshmallow
Somebody paid for the Mexico campaign trip Francis made... there is no doubt he was working for Hillry, while playing like he spoke for Jesus. Both Obama and Hillry picked Catholics as their running mates, and the last three Speakers of the House have been Catholic... something rotten going on and it is not in Denmark.
17 posted on 08/11/2017 9:17:25 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: marshmallow

infuriating....


18 posted on 08/11/2017 9:19:21 PM PDT by cherry
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To: stylin19a

LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!

And your point is?


19 posted on 08/11/2017 9:40:02 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: stylin19a

I’m sure an investigation would recommend no charges.


20 posted on 08/11/2017 9:41:47 PM PDT by Bayard
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