Well this is interesting:
According to a report in The London Times and best selling Catholic author and journalist Antonio Socci, about 12 cardinals who have supported Pope Francis since his election in March 2013 now fear that his controversial reforms may cause a schism in the Church, and so they hope to pressure the Pope to resign.
“A large part of the cardinals who voted for him is very worried and the curia … that organized his election and has accompanied him thus far, without ever disassociating itself from him, is cultivationg the idea of a moral suasion to convince him to retire,” reported Socci in the Italian newspaper Libero, as quoted in The London Times of March 2.
The cardinals who want Pope Francis to resign are among the liberal prelates who backed Jorge Bergoglio (Pope Francis) four years ago, said Socci, and they would like to replace him with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state.
“Four years after Benedict XVI’s renunciation and Bergoglio’s arrival on the scene, the situation of the Catholic church has become explosive, perhaps really on the edge of a schism, which could be even more disastrous than Luther’s [who is today being rehabilitated by the Bergoglio church],” said Socci.
Go here to read the rest. In the immortal words of Chesterton: The high tide! The high tide! The high tide and the turn! Keep slugging away fellow Catholics, we are beginning to prevail.
Would a resignation be a type of retirement?
Three Pope’s?
I suppose that is insignificant due to the importance of his removal from the office. The real question becomes his successor.
At the future announcement of PF’s resignation could we expect more lightning, or possibly an earthquake? My guess.
A rainbow. Not the hijacked version.
I’m praying for him as usual.
I will not cease.
The gates of hell will not prevail over Holy Catholic Church.
This Pope is not going to resign – at least not until he fundamentally transforms the Church as Obama has America.
This pope insists on casting the nets over the shallow waters in the hopes, I believe, of drawing in the fallen-away, the disillusioned, the outcast, and the self-exiled. Not that this is a bad thing in and of itself, he should, though, every once in a while, show that he is also a shepherd and tend to the faithful of the flock.
Jimmy Chonga.
I thought so too.
That his efforts, reckless though they be, are in that vein. Wanting to convert as many through his idea of mercy.
Lutheran Church is being vindicated by his “love in,”in stead of conversion…But that is my nickel observation.
I love Benedict, and admire the humility that led him to retire, but his action opened a can of worms. This article reads like something from the 1200’s.
Bergoglio’s preemptive war against the sovereign personhood of the newly procreated in original innocence, the standard of Justice for all people, through population control; then blaming the environmental problems on “people as pollution” displays a lack of trust in divine Providence. Not seeing volcanoes and earthquakes as divine retribution for the sins of man, Bergoglio assaults people instead of our sins. Bergoglio has excommunicated himself.
He was coerced Pinky, don’t forget that and now he’s an old man being manipulated.
Pope Francis has brought honesty and humanity back to the Church.I thank God that he was sent to us!!
Would it be enough for him to resign though? Surely Laudato Si and Amoris Laetitia need to be…scrapped, or something.
Jimmy & Philip — Converting the exiled, but to what? I think Bergoglio’s real goal is to convert the Church to the outside world (not vice versa), so at the end we are all a bunch of grinning social workers alternating between hugging each other and the nearby trees.
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Susan Weddell: How can Pope Francis bring honesty and humanity back to us without Jesus Christ and the TRUTH?
I can’t figure out if Susan Weddell is being humorously sarcastic or idiotically serious. No offense, but anyone who thinks as Susan wrote has serious issues.
We will be thrilled if he resigns. However, we will still be left with a powerful group of sodomite Freemasons, who hold all the cards except the ones the Good Lord holds. Providence allowed Donald Trump to be made president against all odds. His opponents never even saw it coming, not at all. Things can change on a dime, if the Good Lord wills it.
Please Lord, help us rout these evil men from your church. Amen.
Kathleen, I pray for his resignation and a conservative replacement….as well as the rooting out of the Freemasons in the Curia every day. I pray more Catholics do the same. I also prayed for Trump to get elected when he ran and I continue to pray for his safety and
guidance from God.
Yes Kathleen we’d still be left with those guys- can we call them “deep church”?
The discourse about freemasons has always struck me as a RadTrad fantasy. Gay cliques, careerists, aspirant den-mothers-on-salary are our problem. I suspect the corruption is worse under Francis because he simply doesn’t care about the substance of these issues and the purpose of investigations and sanctions is to punish adversaries, not promote discipline. I’m frankly surprised they haven’t trumped up charges against Cdl. Burke.
“Pope Francis has brought honesty and humanity back to the Church.I thank God that he was sent to us!!”
So, was it Pope St. John Paul II or was it Pope Benedict XVI who deprived the Church of honesty and humanity? I’d really like to know. If Bergoglio is allegedly bringing those things back, then they MUST have been lacking under his predecessors.
So, was it Pope St. John Paul II or was it Pope Benedict XVI who deprived the Church of honesty and humanity? I’d really like to know. If Bergoglio is allegedly bringing those things back, then they MUST have been lacking under his predecessors.
I suspect S. Weddell defines ‘honesty’ and ‘humanity’ to mean ‘doesn’t get under my skin’.
I’m not generally one to assign guilt by association, but the Shea is strong with this one.
Sorry, that was uncalled for. I don’t know that this lady is even familiar with the gentleman to whom I refer. I apologize for the previous comment.
Sorry, that was uncalled for. I don’t know that this lady is even familiar with the gentleman to whom I refer. I apologize for the previous comment.
I did wonder of ‘Susan Weddell’ has any connection to Shea-pal Sherry Weddell.
“I’m not generally one to assign guilt by association, but the Shea is strong with this one.”
“Sorry, that was uncalled for.”
It was a funny line though. I will use it in the future. 😆