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Good News From Rome (for once) -
01-08-2012, 10:03 PM
THIS news just crossed my desk an it tickles me pink. I'm calling on all Prayer Warriors to direct their efforts to sending painful cancer to the pope of Rome, and shutting down the papist cult forever. Jesus will be so pleased!
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Media say Pope may resign in April
According to Italian daily newspaper "Libero", Pope Benedict XVI is thinking about leaving the papacy next April, when he will turn 85
There is one front page news story that will certainly not go unnoticed: that is, that the Pope is thinking about resigning during the Spring of 2012. Journalist Antonio Socci has confirmed the same in the Italian daily, Libero.
"For now,” Socci writes, “he is saying that this may be true (Joseph Ratzinger’s personal assumption), but I hope the story does not reach the news. But this rumor is circulating high up in the Vatican and therefore deserves close attention. The Pope has not rejected the possibility of his resignation when he turns 85 in April next year.”
Socci recalls that the assumption he will resign, without any hitches, was the same thing Ratzinger talked about in an interview in the book “Luce del mondo” (Light of the World), when, in response to a question by interviewer Peter Seewald, he said: “When a Pope arrives at a clear awareness that he no longer has the physical, mental, or psychological capacity to carry out the task that has been entrusted to him, then he has the right, and in some cases, even the duty to resign.” Furthermore, in another passage, Benedict XVI wondered if he would be able to “withstand it all, just from the physical point of view.”
Socci makes the following observation in today’s edition of Libero: “Today, Pope Benedict seems to be in really good form; just the same, there’s the issue of his age and just how much energy he has left.” But the writer/journalist also recalls another passage from the same book interview, which has to do with the attacks and controversies related to the pedophile priests' scandal: “When there is a great menace, one cannot simply run away from it. That is why, right now, it is definitely not the time to resign.”
“It is actually at moments like these that one needs to resist and overcome difficult situations. One can only resign at a time when things are calm, or simply, when nothing more can be done about it. But one cannot run away right when the threat is alive and say, ‘Let somebody else take care of it.”
The issue of papal resignations has been the subject of debate for many decades. Pope Pius XII had prepared a letter in which he stated he would resign if he were taken away by the Nazis (“In that way, they will have Cardinal Pacelli, but not the Pope.”)
Pope John XXIII, while talking with his confessor, had taken into consideration that he would possibly have to leave when his illness worsened. Even Pope Paul VI, who had established the exclusion of those who were over 80 from the conclave, and renunciation of the episcopal seat at the age of 75, seriously thought about resigning in 1977, when he turned 80, but his entourage dissuaded him from going ahead with this. This issue came up again, in a dramatic fashion, with Pope John Paul Il’s long illness; he had even prepared a letter of resignation.
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Re: Good News From Rome (for once) -
01-09-2012, 11:52 AM
I never thought I'd find myself praying for a Pope to live but in this case...
If we have the sad and sorry spectacle of a so-called great leader visibly losing his marbles in public it might just wake Catholics up to how rotten their organisation is as a whole with an empty figurehead who can barely hold it together propped up by invisible cardinals trying to keep up a kiddie fiddling ring in plain sight.
I can't think of the last time we saw a regime with a senile old man doddering about as the public face causing an embarrassment to the hierarchy. Even John Paul II wasn't as much of an embarrassment.
Also if he resigns rather than dies maybe it will make it more apparent that Popes aren't some sort of semi-divine representative of God but are just washed up child fondlers with a thing for wearing dresses and swinging incense. Bit harder to make him a saint and all that.
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Re: Good News From Rome (for once) -
01-09-2012, 04:31 PM
It does give one hope that one earthly leader of this menace to civilization has finally found Jesus and that he will shut down this 2,000 year old scam, liquidate the assets and give them to God's chosen – the Landover Baptist Church, and finally turn out the lights.
More likely is that the Cardinals will again call the conclave and proceed with the secret time honored tallywhacker measuring ritual in the Sistine Chapel and anoint a new leader to dispense their sacrament of buggery.
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"Some idea of the real estate and other forms of wealth controlled by the Catholic church may be gathered by the remark of a member of the New York Catholic Conference, namely 'that his church probably ranks second only to the United States Government in total annual purchase.' Another statement, made by a nationally syndicated Catholic priest, perhaps is even more telling. 'The Catholic church,' he said, 'must be the biggest corporation in the United States. We have a branch office in every neighborhood. Our assets and real estate holdings must exceed those of Standard Oil, A.T.&T., and U.S. Steel combined. And our roster of dues-paying members must be second only to the tax rolls of the United States Government.'
"The Catholic church, once all her assets have been put together, is the most formidable stockbroker in the world. The Vatican, independently of each successive pope, has been increasingly orientated towards the U.S. The Wall Street Journal said that the Vatican's financial deals in the U.S. alone were so big that very often it sold or bought gold in lots of a million or more dollars at one time.
"The Vatican's treasure of solid gold has been estimated by the United Nations World Magazine to amount to several billion dollars. A large bulk of this is stored in gold ingots with the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, while banks in England and Switzerland hold the rest. But this is just a small portion of the wealth of the Vatican, which in the U.S. alone, is greater than that of the five wealthiest giant corporations of the country. When to that is added all the real estate, property, stocks and shares abroad, then the staggering accumulation of the wealth of the Catholic church becomes so formidable as to defy any rational assessment.
"The Catholic church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence. She is a greater possessor of material riches than any other single institution, corporation, bank, giant trust, government or state of the whole globe. The pope, as the visible ruler of this immense amassment of wealth, is consequently the richest individual of the twentieth century. No one can realistically assess how much he is worth in terms of billions of dollars."
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Re: Good News From Rome (for once) -
01-10-2012, 03:26 AM
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Originally Posted by WilliamJenningsBryan
It does give one hope that one earthly leader of this menace to civilization has finally found Jesus and that he will shut down this 2,000 year old scam, liquidate the assets and give them to God's chosen – the Landover Baptist Church, and finally turn out the lights.
More likely is that the Cardinals will again call the conclave and proceed with the secret time honored tallywhacker measuring ritual in the Sistine Chapel and anoint a new leader to dispense their sacrament of buggery.
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I'm surprised Italy doesn't just tax them and pay off their national debt.
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Re: Good News From Rome (for once) -
01-10-2012, 05:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Rev. M. Rodimer
I'm surprised Italy doesn't just tax them and pay off their national debt.
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