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I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry. I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the bark of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me. For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is. Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects. And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff. With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer. From the Vatican, 10 February 2013
It's quite unlikely the Pope resigned due to ill health. This angle seems overplayed, nor does his resignation letter ring true. The pedophile scandal is implausible, unless a whole Seminary has photo evidence against him personally. No, the pedophile scandal, and others, have been boiling over for years, the Vatican brushes them all aside.
It's more likely a coup d'ètat from within, planned long in advance. The Pope didn't jump, rather he was pushed, to make way for the final movements of the Great Controversy. In Italy some are saying he'll be sequestered until after the general election. (10 days)
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Re: Pope Benedict to Resign
[Re: gordonb1]
#149633 02/14/1312:21 PM02/14/1312:21 PM
It's quite unlikely the Pope resigned due to ill health. This angle seems overplayed, nor does his resignation letter ring true. The pedophile scandal is implausible, unless a whole Seminary has photo evidence against him personally... It's more likely a coup d'ètat from within, planned long in advance.
I agree that it is not the only factor(pedophile crimes) behind his resignation. Many other crimes(bribery and money-laundering) has come to the public just over the last year against the Vatican with evidences that can't be brushed away. We are now seeing that these too big to fail entities(banks, Royal family, RCC, Governments, Mega-Corporation, etc...) are increasingly being prosecuted as the evidences are brought forth which increases the awareness of the 99%.
Now concerning the RCC pedophile scandals and other criminal actions towards people, these charges are brought against the RCCnot Benedict personaly despite he is guilty of some crimes of that sort and I would imagine that individuals will be held accountable for their own actions. His resignation is a diversion using Benedict as a scapegoat. It's a watering down tacktive to not prosecute the RCC Church. However, Kevin is aware of this as his comments indicates in his quote below. Kevin will proceeds his arrests and legal actions against the Church despite Benedict removal.
The crimes against humanity is Kevin Annett's angle and life ministry. He is not focussing on pedophile charges, but a wide range of criminal actions done to indogenous people over the course of history in multiple countries done by the RCC and other DENOMINATIONS with the collaborations of the government. He worked long years to build a solid case with hundreds if not thousands of cases, to prosecute the churches and state by carefully planning these legal actions and arrests.
Other people with other expertise are working on other angles and on different entities forming Mystery Babylon. The timing is the Lords and He is bombarding Mystery Babylon from all angles by multiple prosecutions. We have long known that He was going to bring judgment on Babylon. This is what we are seeing.
Here's Kevin last article about what prompt the resignation of Benedict.
Originally Posted By: Elle
The Rat Scurries from the Vat: The Latest Coup in Rome Posted on February 13, 2013 by Jean by Kevin D. Annett February 11, 2013 Facebook post
Theories are abounding this week now that the first pope in seven centuries is resigning his office. But as always, the most direct way to the truth behind the world’s oldest corporation is simply by following the money: and specifically, Vatican Bank money.
Let’s put to rest, first of all, the fallacy that “looming scandals” about child rape and coverup are behind Joseph Ratzinger’s resignation.
That’s just the cover story.
Nobody in the church hierarchy is losing much sleep over their standing, canon-law endorsed policy of concealing and protecting child rapists in their ranks. Even the International Criminal Court application about such crimes has been stymied by catholic-run legislators and jurists.
What pronounced the death knell on Pope Benedict was his personal implication in the bribery and money-laundering practices of the Vatican Bank, comically known as The Institute of Religious Works (IOR); and how that dirty connection gave the anti-Ratzinger faction in the College of Cardinals the lever they needed to dump the obstinate German from the papal throne. The Ex Pope and the New Pope? Joseph Ratzinger (l) and the palace coup-master, Cardinal Bertone
We had a whiff of that dump-Rat Boy agenda last year, when “Vatileaks” broke into the news with a ludicrous story of how Ratzinger’s loyal butler Paolo Gabriele disclosed the pope’s dirty secrets to the Italian media. In fact, the damning documents detailing Ratzinger’s secret rewarding of Vatican contracts to his friends and family members originated in the Vatican Secretary of State’s office, which the fall-guy butler could not have had access to.
The Secretary of State and the real power behind the papacy is Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, an old insider who also engineered the sacking of Gotti Tedeschi, head of the Vatican Bank, last May.
Tedeschi had taken seriously the call of the European Parliament for “greater transparency” by the Vatican Bank /IOR, and was about to disclose to Brussels how his bosses had been laundering money for the mob for decades. The last Pope who had tried such a disclosure, John Paul 1, died from poisoning in September, 1978 after less than a month in office.
But even with Tedechi silenced, the IOR house of cards kept tumbling, as the European Parliament seized from it 300 million Euros fraudulently acquired, and even the American Securities and Exchange Commission declared the IOR’s assets and practices “insecure”. A major Vatican housecleaning was required; or at least, the appearance of one.
It was the pivotal Cardinal Bertone who leaked the pope’s diary and other incriminating papers to a catholic-friendly journalist in Rome last year soon after the sacking of Tedeschi, to prepare the world for Ratzinger’s removal. For it is Bertone who is now reaping the benefits of the papal housecleaning; he is not only a primary contender for the pope’s position but a key player in the IOR.
During my first speaking tour in Rome, in the fall of 2009, I met with several senior Italian senators and officials of the parliamentary Radical Party. They all said the same thing about why Joseph Ratzinger had been made pope, and what awaited him. To quote one of those politicians,
“Nobody becomes pope without a sordid past, because only with such liabilities can he be controlled by the Curia. It’s the same in any big company. Well, Ratzinger made many indisrections as a Cardinal and made many enemies. His signing letters ordering criminal concealment was just one sin. He was to be the scapegoat for all of the trash that the church knew would surface”
So now, the papal scapegoat is gone, pensioned off to wherever ex-popes end up; and the time for the big face lift has arrived.
The idea of applying cosmetic surgery to a decaying facade like the Church of Rome reminds me of Shirley Maclaine trying to look forty at the age of ninety. And yet appearances are everything in show business as well as in religion.
Tarcisio Bertone is about as institutional as you can get, and represents the old Italian crowd of the Curia and are part of the Mob-government-papal clique that run the country and the Roman catholic church. In the words of one of the Roman Senators I spoke with,
“You must understand that in my country, the Mafia and the government and the Vatican are all the same people, and they really have only one concern: protecting their assets.”
Bertone, or whoever from the victorious ranks of his faction does assume the papal tiria, cannot be expected to do much but maintain the assets and security of the church, and that means by continuing the policies of silence and dissimulation that keeps the cash flowing. But their position is more difficult now in the wake of the enormous rifts developing within the wider church, where Cardinals are facing criminal prosecution for shielding child rapists, and talk of disaffiliating from Rome is widespread among Irish, American and German Bishops.
“We have all the grounds for a second Reformation now. That’s how serious is the crisis. The church will either rid itself of itself or face collapse” said the Roman Senator to me.
It was easy to despise Joseph Ratzinger: the Hitler Youth raised, reactionary bigot who sacked liberal and independent thinkers in his church as the Cardinal-head of the Vatican Inquisition, and who told American Bishops that purgatory awaited any of them who did not cover up priestly child rape. Even among fellow Cardinals, he was known as “Joe the Rat”.
But Ratzinger was a made to order object of hatred, and put there to play out the oldest game in politics: the venting of popular rage on a disposable figurehead so that the institution itself could proceed unscathed.
I doubt that it’s totally coincidental that Ratzinger was forced out of office so quickly barely ten days after our Common Law court published online hard evidence of the Pope’s involvement in crimes against humanity. Any new Pope will face the same charges, of colluding in a massive criminal conspiracy.
But the real issue is not who or what will replace Joseph Ratzinger as the latest figurehead, but how to displace the Vatican itself as a criminal power unto itself. And that struggle is just commencing.
Blessings
Re: Pope Benedict to Resign
[Re: Elle]
#149727 02/16/1312:54 AM02/16/1312:54 AM
We are now into the first day after his resignation took effect.
It still baffles me that so many of the brethren were surprised by Pope Benedict XVI resignation Monday February 11, 2013. As a Student of Bible Prophecy, I have been giving the warning faithfully for one year prior to his resignation that Pope Benedict XVI would leave office by the Spring of 2013.
Confirm the TWEETS and follow me, the Loudcryer, on Twitter! This is a complete list of my Benedict tweets:
Pope Benedict XVI has but a very short time left (3 September 2011)
#Pope Benedict XVI marks his last year with a Latin America trip that includes a visit to #Cuba (23 March 2012)
With Benedict XVI in his last year, Who’s going to be the new pope? As I read it a demon masquerading as John-Paul II will take the job! (3 April 2012)
Is Pope Benedict going to be pope in 2013? (29 April 2012)
Months ago I tweeted that pope Benedict XVI is a short timer. Now Vatican power play is news! Y u b last 2 know? (28 May 2012)
If Pope Benedict’s 8th year is really his 7th, his time ends before May 2013 (7 July 2012)
Pope Benedict’s 8th year is really his 7th, because his ascension year was John-Paul II’s last year. Will Benedict XVI’s 7th year B his last (8 August 2012)
Pope #Benedict XVI As I read Daniel’s prophecy, 7’s number of completeness. His ascension year (zero) 2005. He might last till spring 2013? (30 September 2012)
Pope Benedict announced this morning (Monday February 11, 2013) that he is resigning as of 28 February 2013.
*** From my reading of Bible Prophecy, there will not be another pope.
"Ignorance is sin, when knowledge can be obtained" (HR, September 1, 1866 par. 3). www.loudcry101.com
Re: Pope Benedict to Resign
[Re: His child]
#150344 03/03/1311:44 PM03/03/1311:44 PM
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