Posted on 01/08/2023 10:55:34 AM PST by ebb tide
Will we ever find out the true story of why Pope Benedict resigned?
Pope Formusus (891-896) had his body exhumed and put on trial in the Cadaver Synod. He was found guilty of political, not religious grounds. His body was stripped of Papal vestments, three fingers cut off and his body was thrown into the Tiber River.
The Horror!
A Buenos Aires journalist describes Bergoglio (March 13, 2013)
If you claim otherwise, you certainly are a Bergoglio apologist.
There ya go! Boy, those Romans didn’t fool around.
I referred to his facial expression not his posture.
Pope Benedict XVI was a VICAR of CHRIST!!! He deserved GREAT LOVE and RESPECT from Frank.
He’s a sad sack Marxist.
>> In defense of Pope Francis — the college of cardinals duly elected him pope and there was no outcry at that time against the procedures observed in 2013. Why all this agonizing today? <<
You can’t elect a pope if there is an existing pope. The understanding of the College of Cardinals was that Pope Benedict had resigned. But he made several comments since then by which he suggested that he still believed he had the charisms of the papacy... which means he did not resign, but merely appointed an administrator.
Here’s the kicker: Pope Benedict XVI can actually be wrong about whether he has the power to resign. (I believe he is correct on this.) Or whether there can be two popes. (It’s ambiguous whether he considers Francis to have the charisms of the papacy.) But he CANNOT be wrong about whether he intended to surrender the charisms of the papacy. Even if he falsely believed he could remain pope despite resigning, that false belief would mean he did not willingly resign. Even so, it’s a little difficult to say what’s in his mind and whether he actually intended to retain the charisms of the papacy. As an old man, he could be prone to misstatement.
But then there’s the second issue of a supposed pope who always speaks just vaguely enough that it’s difficult to say from any one thing he says, “Aha! Here is heresy!” But it is certainly undeniable that the people he praises and promotes are the rankest, vilest of heretics and that he knows it. And you could argue that nothing short of painstakingly worded proclamation of heresy spoken with the formula to be infallible could be proof alone that the Francis is an antipope. (I would even point out that some antipopes were great men, and some even became valid popes at a later time.)
Thus two threads of evidence, neither solely determinative on their own, draw one towards a common explanation.
Evil is in residence in that face
Any more personal opinions of some MSM journalist you plan to quote?
Yeah, there was a real flood of outcries, world wide. If B16 had not gone AWOL in 2013, he would have gone down in history less controversially. Have you interviewed all the Catholics who were dismayed by his resignation and who felt betrayed by the Sheppard leaving his flock to a stranger or do you get all your information from some Argentinian reporter, you Bergoglio apologist?
BTW, the many malpractices that Francis is accused of in the article, have been committed by JP2 including him publicly kissing the Koran with the same lips that daily touch the Most Blessed Sacrament. B16 could have and should have become a Super Hero if he had remonstrated JP2.
And BXVI prayed in a mosque, among other things that people either don’t know or have chosen to ignore.
But you’re not allowed to criticize BXVI, so you might as well get that through your head.
Not a Francis fan, but your remark is a bit harsh. The man is old and sick.
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