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An Insider Tell-All Is About to Rip Pope Francis a New One
Slate Magazine ^ | January 5, 2023 | Molly Olmstead

Posted on 01/06/2023 3:13:09 PM PST by ebb tide

An Insider Tell-All Is About to Rip Pope Francis a New One

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is dead. His right-hand man is about to come out swinging.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI had been dead for just two days when it was revealed that his personal secretary, a striking and influential cleric nicknamed “Gorgeous Georg” by the international press, was publishing a tell-all book that promised to avenge his former boss—and lambast the current pope.

The news came as a shock in the world of Vatican observers. In part, that was because it arrived as the faithful were still, literally, mourning the pontiff at the center of it all. Also because the author, German Archbishop Georg Gänswein, has worked as a high-ranking employee for both Francis and Benedict and is situated in a particularly sensitive position in the church.

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“This is unprecedented,” Massimo Faggioli, a theologian and church historian at Villanova University, told me over the phone. “The shocking part is it’s the secretary of the former pope who’s raising very serious accusations against the current pope, who’s been very patient with him. At the very minimum, it’s very bad taste.”

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TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; Current Events
KEYWORDS: antipope; apostatepope; badtaste; benedictxvi; faggioli; faggiolithefag; faithandphilosophy; frankenchurch; georgganswein; justisntcricket; massimofaggioli; romancatholicism; verybadtaste
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1 posted on 01/06/2023 3:13:09 PM PST by ebb tide
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Ping


2 posted on 01/06/2023 3:13:40 PM PST by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

I never really understood how or why he was forced out. Thoughts?


3 posted on 01/06/2023 3:24:54 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: ebb tide

Go, Gorgeous George!


4 posted on 01/06/2023 3:35:22 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: DesertRhino

The current one is obviously a NWO technocrat fascist and CCP apologist. Promoted by the same people who put obozo in the white hut. The former was a casualty of these same people.


5 posted on 01/06/2023 3:35:54 PM PST by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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To: Track9

And he is all in for the LGBT agenda. I suspect who his replacement is will be a solid clue as to why he was removed. But I just don’t know exactly what happened. I am not Catholic, but pray for the day the Church returns to better hands, same as for most other Christian faiths.


6 posted on 01/06/2023 3:40:39 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: ebb tide

A must read!


7 posted on 01/06/2023 3:41:01 PM PST by Trump_Triumphant
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To: ebb tide

“At the very minimum, it’s very bad taste.””

At the very minimum, this St. Gallen mafia leaves a very bad tast


8 posted on 01/06/2023 3:47:00 PM PST by OpusatFR
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To: DesertRhino

“Forced out”. Maybe this General can shed some light on the matter:

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/italian-general-us-official-bragged-benedict-would-be-forced-to-resign-weeks-after-2005-election/


9 posted on 01/06/2023 3:47:04 PM PST by qaz123
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To: DesertRhino
Italian general: US official bragged Benedict would be ‘forced’ to resign weeks after 2005 election
10 posted on 01/06/2023 3:49:12 PM PST by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

Wow... Thanks


11 posted on 01/06/2023 3:49:47 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: DesertRhino

I’m sure you’re reading the Italian general piece. Not surprising how ubiquitous these ‘god is dead’ , hate America NWO goons are. An international cabal in every hall of power.


12 posted on 01/06/2023 3:50:03 PM PST by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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To: qaz123

Thanks!


13 posted on 01/06/2023 3:50:16 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: OpusatFR

Maximum Beans is Bergoglio’s head cheerleader, short skirt and all.


14 posted on 01/06/2023 3:51:03 PM PST by ebb tide
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To: DesertRhino
Thoughts?

Here you go.

15 posted on 01/06/2023 3:57:05 PM PST by Jim Noble (You have sat too long for any good you have been doing)
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To: ebb tide

bfl


16 posted on 01/06/2023 3:58:45 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: qaz123

Hmmm to that little quip.


17 posted on 01/06/2023 4:08:40 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: ebb tide

Romans are funny.


18 posted on 01/06/2023 4:19:26 PM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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"...An Insider Tell-All Is About to Rip Pope Francis a New One..."

There are people who pay good money for that.

19 posted on 01/06/2023 4:20:00 PM PST by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: ebb tide

“Rip...Francis a new one...Gorgeous Georg...Faggioli?”

Really? Okay, don’t tell me. I don’t want to know and will just go on about my business.


20 posted on 01/06/2023 4:31:16 PM PST by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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