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Benedict XVI Reworks Essay of 1972 and Positions Himself as “Anti-Pope” [N.B. meaning anti-Francis]
“From Saul to Paul?” Asks the Regensburg weekly.The Süddeutsche Zeitung has its pejorative judgment already at hand: ” The Anti-Pope “. The reason for the excitement? Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI. has given word again from his internal exile. He revised an essay on the sacrament of marriage and the indissolubility of marriage in 1972 and published it again. The revisions are the ones which provide for politico-ecclesiastical dynamite.
Joseph Ratzinger had published the essay in his time as a professor of theology in Regensburg. Now, it has appeared in the Collected Works, issued by the Pope-Benedict Institute under the direction of Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer of Regensburg.
1972: The Proximity to the Position of Cardinal Kasper
In 1972 Joseph Ratzinger had written something similar, as Cardinal Walter Kasper has represented at the Cardinal Consistory and at the Synod of Bishops on the Family. It was about civil remarriage, which should find some recognition in the Church. There was talk that “the opening of Communion in the community after a period of probation of not less than the time fairly and fully in line with the Church’s tradition.” Of course, if “successful, a second marriage for a long time proves its moral significance” and had been “lived in the spirit of faith” and if “there are moral obligations towards children and wife” in the new civil marriage. This was the original Ratzinger essay, as it was cited by the Süddeutsche Zeitung, whose difference is now noted.
2014: The Distancing of Cardinal Kasper
Now Pope Benedict XVI. no longer shares the view he held in 1972. For this reason he underwent a major rewriting of the essay prior to its publication in the collected writings. The conclusion that Benedict XVI. draws in 2014, is completely different than the theologian Joseph Ratzinger in 1972 drew. Not to recognize the second marriage and grant admission to Communion, but to check the condition of nullity on the marriage and streamline the process. This is a position he had already proposed as Pope during his reign.
The revised version is binding and thus Benedict XVI. has distanced himself to Cardinal Kasper and the attempts undertaken in this year within the Church to enforce the recognition of a second marriage and the Communion for remarried divorcees. Instead Benedict XVI. strengthens the position of those cardinals who are attempting to confront this, Cardinal Prefect Gerhard Müller, Cardinal Raymond Burke, Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, Cardinal George Pell and others.
Benedict XVI. take sides as “Counter-Pope” of Pope Francis
The date of revision can hardly be considered random. Thus, the retired head of the Church took an active part in the ongoing discussion and clearly sided with one party. According to Church tradition that would negate the demand. However, the facts speak for themselves. Also, that the “against” of Benedict XVI., which the Süddeutsche Zeitung attributed him as “The Contrast-Pope” with their word game, is actually directed against Pope Francis and Benedict XVI. in the latest and most heated inner-Church debate, is positioned as “anti-pope”.
So it would never be said in the Vatican. The battle takes place at a distance and without naming the counterparts. However, the picture is clear, Benedict XVI. defends the teaching of the Catholic Church. His position is not directed against anyone, but takes the side of the deposit of faith, which he sees clearly at risk. In other words: He takes position against all who oppose the Church’s teaching whether it be Cardinal Walter Kasper and be it even Pope Francis.
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Thank God for our beloved Pope Benedict. I pray that he would take further steps to save Christians from the false Pope.
Mary, Benedict is doing all he can and his silent work of suffering and prayer and its powerful effect is described by St. Paul who in the Spirit saw the pope of this very day publically being stripped of all administrative power. The truth is that none of the Popes beginning with John XXIII had any real ultimate administrative power. The Administrative power was wrested by the Vatican Secretaries of State since 1969 and the world wide criminal elements behind them. Most Catholics however were too spiritually indifferent to even care about this overthrow though on more than one occasion Pope Paul VI publically spoke of it! Here is St. Paul on the Day of the Lord (Christ’s second coming), and the two events that would precede it and what Benedict is doing to hold off the revelation of AntiChrist:
“Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day [Day of the Lord] will not come unless there first comes the revolt [the apostasy brought in by the False Prophet of Rev. 13:11-16], and [then secondly] the revealing of the Man of Sin, the Son of Perdition [1 Tim. 4:1; Dan.7:25; 8:25; Matt.24:15], 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped,2 so that he sits in the Temple of God 3 [the very Church of Christ – St. Peter’s!], showing himself as if he were God [Dan. 11:36,37; Ezek.28:2]. 5 Do you not remember that when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6 And now you know what has been restraining him [from being revealed], that he may be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of iniquity already works, only he who now restrains [the Vicar of Christ – Benedict], does so, until he is taken out of the way [of the Man of Sin]. 8 And then that Wicked One [lit. Lawless One] shall be revealed whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming.” 2 Thess. 2:3-8.
Already Benedict (in union with the prayers and labors of the Remnant Church) have voided an entire year of chastisements requiring the Miracle promised at Garabandal to be shoved up to a year later. Since that would have put off the healing of Joey Lomingino’s eye sight for another year, the Lord decided to take him home before the Miracle (when Heaven had originally promised his restored sight), and give him his eye sight before the Miracle took place. Not only did the Lord speak of the shortening of this period to His original Apostles but the possibility of shortening the Chastisement was mentioned to Padre Pio in 1949-50.
WATCH NOW, just as Benedict was driven from office because he, at Fatima before 500,000 in May of 2010, called Vatican Secretaries of State Sodano and Bertone deceivers /deceived because they were spreading the lie that Pope John Paul II’s assassination attempt fulfilled the Fatima revelation, so now Benedict will be driven from Rome and become that martyred bishop dressed in white. Pope Pius X in 1909 was shown that the POPE to be driven out of Rome over dead bodies and then martyred, had the name of “Joseph.” St. John (Don) Bosco’s vision in 1862 also is clear that the pope that is martyred has to be Benedict because he is first knocked down, then immediately raised up (allowed to stay in Rome) and then finally killed. This is Benedict and he is the pope until his martyrdom which makes Bergoglio the False Prophet.
Bosco’s vision also tell what happens following POPE Benedict’s murder, the “shout of victory” (revealing of Anti-Christ) – but so does St. Paul in 2 Thess 2:6-8