1. It just keeps on coming back.
Pope Benedict’s seeming resignation remains unsettled. It is like a nightmare that forces us to sit down, be fully awake and resolve all the nagging questions.
Well, it is 2:00 am. And I cannot sleep because of all the questions that are being raised with regard to this topic. It all begun with the seeming resignation of Pope Benedict. Knowing that he is a holy man, equipped with a vast knowledge of the Faith, it is impossible for us to believe that he resigned. It could not be. Holy persons with a vast source of knowledge of Divine things does not resign from doing God’s Will. What he did was a tactical manoeuvre to deceive that Angelic eternal enemy of the soul, Lucifer. Exactly the same thing that Christ did. Christ did a tactical manoeuvre making Lucifer believe that he had the Christ killed using the Pharisees. When actually Christ, instead, redeemed many sinners from Satan’s clutches through this manoeuvre. We should have seen Satan’s red face after Easter.
What was Pope Benedict’s tactical manoeuvre? Many theories had already been presented. But it must point to the salvation of souls like Christ’s.
One…..is that he actually resigned, which is difficult to connect to the salvation of souls. The latest one raised by Archbishop Gawain, assistant to Pope Benedict, is that he really did not resign but merely enlarged the concept of the Papacy; in that there is only one Papacy but there are two ministries. Which connects better for the salvation of souls.
A serious proposition raised is the situation that we are faced with two Popes; only one is the true Pope. The other is an anti-pope. Most Catholics are entertaining this last option but are afraid to say the magic word, anti-pope. But all their descriptions of the present problem besetting the Church is that there is an anti-pope sitting in the seat of Peter.
The discussion is getting hotter. A conference scheduled in Rome plans to demand that Pope Francis withdraw the badly written encyclical ‘Amoris Laetitia’ from circulation. A TV station had already called for Pope Francis to resign. Some bishops are already shouting ‘heresy.’
2. Neither side is giving up.
Pope Francis, who entertained retiring before has just expressed that he will not resign for any reason. He will remain in the seat of Peter. While the written articles voicing public opinion’s discouragements with the way Pope Francis is running the Church is increasing, Archbishop Ganswain is providing the theology of the manoeuvre Pope Benedict is employing. With the advantage of having Pope Benedict on his side always, he has given a firm direction towards the right goal; that everything Benedict is doing is directed towards the salvation of the Catholic Church. There is no resignation or excursions going on here.
Pope Benedict had mentioned the work of St. Bonaventure that will give us an idea of his manoeuvre. Bonaventure’s ‘sixth day move.’ This is identical to Christ’s sixth day manoeuvre where God created a scenario in the world that would stage the Passion of Christ; the scenario would be directed by God, Himself. It would fool the devil into believing that evil had triumph over Jesus Christ but instead it will save countless souls. Only God can execute a move like that.
3. The sixth day manoeuvre.
On Good Friday, God got all the bad guys; these were almost all the priest; the Pharisees, the Sadducees; all the civil authorities, the Roman governor and soldiers. The Jewish nation who would provide the shouting demonstrators. It was the end of the world scenario. God was so angry at the world that it seems He had decided to end the world. Imagine at this point mankind had killed its God. Not even the pagans would do that. Instead God, for a moment, had mercy on men and used Good Friday to prepare mankind for these days.
Then Ganswain used his intelligent mind again and said precisely that, showing us the direction of that Messianic manoeuvre by saying that Benedict is the second to the last Pope in St. Malachi’s list and that we are with the last Pope. As usual things got more confused for those who are not following the trend of eschatology
4. As it was in the beginning…….
Christian eschatology is the progress of history forward…..but towards ‘as it was in the beginning.’ Scripture has it that the world will return just ‘as it was in the beginning.’ The Middle East is almost like a desert again. The sea is beginning to claim the lands. And during these times Christ will, again, chose His apostles. Saint Grignon de Montfort wrote much about this last days apostles where Christ, Himself, will personally chose the apostles that will prepare the world for the last judgment. And together with the choosing of the apostles is the choosing of Peter.
It is for this scenario that the last Pope is named Peter Romanus. First, he will be appointed by Christ directly. That takes Pope Francis out of the picture because he was elected by the College of Cardinals. Secondly, Peter Romans will be in his office in Rome; which applies to both of them. Thirdly, it will be a time of total chaos in the Church. Well, Benedict fixed up the Church while Pope Francis is causing the now total chaos by making his whims the dogmas of the Catholic Church.
5. The election of Peter Romanus.
St. Grignon wrote that Christ, Himself, will appoint the last Pope just as He, Himself, appointed St. Peter. He will, also, personally chose the rests of the last days apostles.
Now, if Benedict had resigned and, as Ganswain announced he is still Pope……think of it…..for a moment Benedict was Pope. Then Pope Benedict resigns from an office wherein he was elected by a Conclave. Then now he is Pope again…by whose authority? He is Pope again this second time, not by the election of the Cardinals, but by appointment from God. So what Archbishop Ganswain is saying is this; that Pope Benedict was the second to the last Pope, ‘Gloria Olivae’ according to St. Malachi. He resigned. Then he had been personally reappointed by Christ. Benedict is, also, Peter Romanus. Now, that is why everybody is wondering why he is still in the Vatican, ROME. And as Archbishop Ganswain wondered; why is he in white and addressed as ‘Your Holiness,’ even by Pope Francis.
Benedict just did a Christ like manoeuvre……for exactly the same reason. Just like at the beginning.
6. This topic is not mere Byzantine discussion. The resolution of this question is needed for our salvation. We must know who is our leader. Because where he goes there we will go.
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