Former Pope Benedict complains of
attempts to 'silence' him
Agence France Presse,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: tisHimself,
5/4/2020 4:34:40 AM
Traditionalist former Pope Benedict XVI accuses opponents of wanting to "silence" him while attacking gay marriage in vehement terms in a new authorised biography published Monday in Germany. The 93-year-old, whose original name is Joseph Ratzinger, claims in "Benedict XVI - A Life" that he has fallen victim to a "malignant distortion of reality" in reactions to his interventions in theological debates, according to passages published by German media and news agency DPA.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Gerty 5/4/2020 6:04:42 AM (No. 400017)
Pope Benedict XVI....our true pope.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 5/4/2020 6:07:42 AM (No. 400018)
Soros the devil had his hand in Pope Benedict being forced out. Even the catholic church can be bought.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Mekkkk 5/4/2020 6:14:28 AM (No. 400022)
We miss you
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/4/2020 6:54:16 AM (No. 400053)
Pointing out that you are wrong, Pontiff, is not an attempt to silence you, merely misplaced hope that you will stop making a fool out of yourself.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Hank Reardon 5/4/2020 6:57:53 AM (No. 400058)
He was stripped of his office by the globalists/communists who have a grand plan for the world. It was moving along smoothly at the behest of the skinny, big-eared kid from Kenya and his cohorts throughout Europe. Son of a Gun if Trump didn't come along and screw that up too!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Highlander 5/4/2020 7:02:59 AM (No. 400063)
Re #4; So, the socialist Argentine is preferable to Benedict? I’m not a Catholic, but I believe I correctly observe the political dynamics of the Vatican clergy. IMO, Pope Francis is a disaster to orthodox Catholicism just as Obama was a disaster to all true Americans.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ditto1958 5/4/2020 7:02:59 AM (No. 400064)
Why did he “retire” in the first place? Popes are supposed be there for life. The pope we have now is abominable. Was Benedict forced out? If so, how could that happen? A pope is like a king, even more so.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mifla 5/4/2020 7:11:42 AM (No. 400072)
Should have acted like the Vicar of Christ and stayed in the job.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
janjan 5/4/2020 7:32:33 AM (No. 400094)
#4 has confused Pope Benedict with his replacement. Francis is a socialist. The Church is not his first priority.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MOBeef4u 5/4/2020 7:35:05 AM (No. 400098)
I have heard that Benedict "retired" because he didn't want to die as Pope, and by die I don't mean of natural causes. While this may sound outlandish and dramatic there are things going on among the hierarchy that are disturbing and appalling. As a lifelong Catholic I love my religion and will not abandon it. But many of the current leaders, I believe, will have to answer to a higher power at some point. I wouldn't want to be in their shoes. I pray daily that they experience a change of heart and repent. The Church has survived worse things in the past. It can survive this. We have Jesus' word on this. (Mt.16:18) We may be assailed by evil but it will not "prevail". Therein lies my hope.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
The Remnants 5/4/2020 7:36:27 AM (No. 400099)
FTA:
"...he has been frequently criticized for his attitudes to Islam"
I believe the author is referring to a piece he wrote some time ago about the history of Islam. Pope Benedict is a meticulous scholar and was only recounting history. No one could honestly discount what he wrote, but only try to rearrange the words. The thing with the globalists/communists is there is only "authoritative truth", not objective truth.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Venturer 5/4/2020 8:06:18 AM (No. 400136)
Why did Benedict retire? I can only offer my own suspicions.
He was faced with Homosexuality in the college of Cardinals.
He was faced with the fact that Priests and Bishops and Cardinals many of whom are homosexual had no intention to rid the Church of those in their midst.
I believe that suspicion has been proven. The Church has done nothing to rid us of these people in spite of their words that they have.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
rsgonner 5/4/2020 8:23:05 AM (No. 400155)
Frank is the False Prophet of Revelation. With his age, the antiChrist can't be too much further ahead...
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/4/2020 8:27:06 AM (No. 400158)
The Vatican and the Catholic Church have had dark periods in the past. Pope Francis is bringing them through another one and hopefully they get their act together before they are really needed for the final battle.
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There is a powerful subversive cabal in the hierarchy of the church. They are known as "The Lavender Mafia." The smoke of Satan has entered the Vatican. They have shown themselves capable of every form of deviousness and bedevilment. It seems likely Pope Benedict was forced out for our new social justice warrior, Frances.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
AltaD 5/4/2020 8:31:03 AM (No. 400162)
FTA: The fact is that the lockdowns weren’t about stopping the spread of the disease. Their justification was to slow the spread so our health care system wasn’t overwhelmed.
I wish Trump would tweet this message out on a daily basis because the media certainly won't.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
TJ54 5/4/2020 8:49:26 AM (No. 400186)
Reply 14,
Pope Francis aka Pope Libtard the First is finishing the job Vatican Disaster II started. He is the exact opposite of what the Catholic Church needs to come through this dark time.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 5/4/2020 9:02:25 AM (No. 400200)
Well then you shouldn't have let them shove you out sir. Nobody considers that marxist the true pope anyway.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
dovestar 5/4/2020 9:13:14 AM (No. 400216)
#7 in addition to the Lavender Mafia mentioned by #15, there is the Sankt Gallen Mafia. Find a copy of Dr. Taylor Marshall's book Infiltration or check out his videos online.
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The vatican is a likely location for the false prophet to hang out.
Rev. 20:10 says it won't end well for him.
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Resignation begets irrelevance. Sorry, your Holiness.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/4/2020 9:50:08 AM (No. 400276)
If you don’t believe that Benedict was FORCED out, you haven’t been paying attention.
He is a conservative and is from Western Europe. I was hoping that he would do for Western Europe what Pope JPII did for Eastern Europe - defeat their socialist governments and bring the people back to the Church. The globalists saw that possibility and couldn’t allow him to achieve that goal. And look at Western Europe now.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
marbles 5/4/2020 10:05:16 AM (No. 400304)
The Pope does not resign.Being Pope is for life. There is no retirement plan because there is no retirement. Why was this wrong accepted by the Catholics of the world?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/4/2020 10:15:43 AM (No. 400319)
it looks like Pope Benedict XVI was the victim of a silent coup. They coup plotters did not kill him, but they certainly replaced him. Being Pope is for life. One does not retire.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Shells 5/4/2020 11:05:06 AM (No. 400389)
They’re trying to do to Trump what they did to Benedict. The evil left in the world will stop at absolutely nothing to remove threats to their fascist globalist goals.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
NotaBene 5/4/2020 11:41:36 AM (No. 400415)
The accession of Francis I was a master stroke for Globalism. The United Nations Sustainable Humanism walked right into the Catholic Church. We miss our Holy Pope Benedict XVI very much. The Argentinian is a stalking horse for Marxism and Global Warming.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
jlw509 5/4/2020 12:16:04 PM (No. 400449)
#2, the Catholic Church as such cannot be bought, but a rogue curia on the Tiber can certainly be bought. I urge all to go deep into the history: after the shock subsides, it will steady you. The wolves and jackals have infiltrated the hierarchy before: "I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will scatter." It's been happening periodically --- like recurring seasons of the plague --- for two millennia. But Christ, who is Truth and Goodness itself, is with the Church, which, like her Savior, has a knack of rising from the dead.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 5/4/2020 1:08:51 PM (No. 400523)
The "smoke of Satan" has been present in the Church since its inception with Judas' kiss and Peter's thrice denial. Judas despaired and took his own life; Peter despaired and wept, then joined the other Apostles hiding in the upper room. Both betrayals were predicted by Our Lord. Both betrayals were necessary to bring about Christ's ultimate act of Redemption for Mankind. One betrayer's faith was in the world, the other's faith was in Christ. Peter's betrayal was turned into a blessing. He became the Bishop of Rome and our first pope. He died as a martyr, crucified upside down at his own insistence because he was not worthy to die in the same position as Christ.
Jesus also predicted that the gates of Hell would not prevail against His Church. Gates are a defensive position. God intends the Church to be on offense and promised she would always be protected by the Holy Spirit. The Catholic Church is both a creature of the world and a creation of God. Throughout her history she has been led by both charlatans and saints; those that have faith in the world and those who have faith in Christ. Despite the Borgia popes, schisms and the Reformation the Catholic Church still stands and will be standing on the last day.
I take solace in the thought that Francis is to the Catholic Church what Obama was to the United States. "Behold, I make all things new."
AMDG - Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam - For the Greater Glory of God.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
DVC 5/4/2020 1:32:24 PM (No. 400563)
He better be careful or they'll us a real silencer.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 5/4/2020 1:48:00 PM (No. 400593)
If you believe that (Albino Luciani)) Pope John Paul I died in his sleep on the 33rd day of his papacy, then they already have you fooled.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Red Ghost 5/4/2020 5:09:01 PM (No. 400771)
There are no other articles as Must Reads then from the radical leftist fake Yahoo news? Thank God Benedict is still alive. The other imposter, Francis is taking the Church down a very bad road given his acquiescence to the Chinese Community government and his absurd railings on climate change.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX 5/4/2020 7:41:20 PM (No. 400890)
I'm convinced Pope Benedict endured a coup d'tat by the Socialists in the Catholic hierarchy and is a prisoner at the Vatican. The current Pope is a fraud, a puppet installed by the Globalists.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
4Justice 5/6/2020 3:29:35 AM (No. 402215)
He was the last true Pope! The Catholic Church has been taken over by satanists. They are pushing out all the good clergy left.
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