The Man Who Didn't Want to Be Pope...

These Last Days News - February 13, 2013

"Do not abandon My Son any longer by rejecting His Church. Do not judge My Son's Church by man. The foundation is My Son, Jesus. And though the walls may develop cracks, the foundation is solid. Will you not remain and patch these cracks, My children? We do not wish that you break apart into small groups of discord. No schisms must take place in My Son's Church. For all who are baptized a Roman Catholic must die Roman Catholics to enter Heaven. A rejection of the papacy, a rejection of the Faith because of human reasoning shall not be accepted by the Eternal Father in Heaven. Remain faithful and true forever unto the end.” – Our Lady of the Roses, November 20, 1979

Real Clear Religion reported on February 11, 2013:

There is only one fun moment in Charles Curran's autobiography Loyal Dissent. Curran, a priest who eventually had his license to teach Catholic theology yanked by the Vatican, is at a meeting with the future pope Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in the 1980s.

Ratzinger then headed the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), the teaching arm of the Catholic Church. Curran dissented with some vigor from many of the teachings of that Church. This was a problem because it was his employer.

As one of Ratzinger's colleagues explained in the meeting, Catholic theologians have a special duty to teach the Catholic faith, full stop. If I disagreed with those teachings, he said, by way of example, I would have to resign my post and serve out my days as a parish priest.

Curran bristled at that, calling it an insult to parish priests everywhere. According to Curran, "Ratzinger then responded that he himself would rather be a parish priest than to hold his current office."

You could think of that as a slight joke, a bit of understated German wit from the future pontiff. Except then you'd have to account for the bear with a backpack.

The bear is on Benedict's papal seal. The legendary story is of the Frankish Saint Corbinian. Corbinian was called to Rome. Along the way, a bear attacked the priest and his packhorse, killing the horse. Rather than flee in terror, the saint rebuked the bear and made the animal carry his luggage the rest of the way to the Vatican, then let it roam free.

When the retiring Pope Benedict XVI tells this story, he compares himself not to the saint but to the bear. And sometimes he laments that once his predecessor John Paul II dragged him to Rome, he did not allow him his freedom. Ratzinger tried to resign and return to Germany to teach theology a few times. His pope wouldn't allow it.

Then came the papal conclave following John Paul II's death in 2005. Cardinal Ratzinger gave a speech that railed against as many secular ideologies as he could think of and called for cleansing the church of the accumulated "filth" of its recent sex scandals. The speech was reviled by liberals and was thought to be a sort of warning to his fellow cardinals: Do not elect me pope. Yet when the smoke cleared over St. Peter's Square, there he was.

There will be plenty of assessments of the pope's legacy this week. For what it's worth, as a Catholic I think he took the job seriously and made some halting progress toward dealing with the church's recent scandals. Also, he tried to heal some old rifts among Christians of various confessions and exhibited heroic courage by visiting Turkey while many Muslims were still burning him in effigy for a quotation that was ripped wildly, even laughably, out of context.

But the thing I find most worth comment today is that you could tell from the start that this was a job the pope did not want. Benedict didn't issue many encyclicals. Instead, he wrote and published three books about Jesus Christ. He made clear that his writings on this subject were very far from infallible. In fact, he practically begged laymen and scholars of all confessions to have at them.

And now, citing his failing health, Benedict has stunned much of the world by announcing his resignation from the papacy. This makes him one of the few popes to abdicate his throne and the first in 600 years to do so. The Bishop of Rome has finally decided to give the bear back its freedom.

Pope Benedict XVI's Full Statement

Dear Brothers,

I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry.

I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the bark of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me.

For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is.

Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects. And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff. With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer.

From the Vatican, 10 February 2013
BENEDICTUS PP XVI

"Peter was My first Pope and your first Pope, and as all others who followed him, they must be accepted. Be they weak or noble, be they with sanctity or unholiness, they must be accepted and followed....
"I ask you not to judge another. You may counsel, you may give your viewpoints, but no violence must be used. And I do not want schism. I do not want any interference from separated brethren in My Church. They must be brought back. Convert the unbeliever! You must remain united with Rome.
"The gates of hell shall not prevail against My Church, for a cleansing will come about and all that is rotten will fall! And My Church shall be restored to its former glory!" - Jesus, June 9, 1979

Veronica - There’s the Pope. There are two keys above his head; they’re crossed. Standing next to him is a man. He looks like a bishop from Arabia, or someplace where the climate is warm. His skin is dark. And he’s got a chalice in his right hand, and he’s looking around. He is stepping behind the Pope. Oh, he gave the chalice to somebody behind him, and he’s reaching under his robe. Oh, he’s got a knife! It’s round; it looks like—he looks like the grim reaper. [Veronica shook with fright.] The Pope bent over to converse and he swung the knife and cut off the Pope’s head. [Veronica was very upset.] 10-2-71

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BROWN AND WHITE BEAR
"Listen, My child, and repeat after Me: the Brown Bear of communism, of red orientation, will seek to devour the Holy Father, your Vicar the Pope, by assassination, and place on the Seat of Peter a communist puppet known by all as the White Bear.
     "My child and My children of the world, disaster lies ahead in Rome if this happens. Will you not, in your goodness of heart, go forward and give this message to the world. Approach your clergy. Write to Rome! Beg them to listen before it is too late. Your Holy Father, the Pope, is in great danger.
     "They cannot outwit the Eternal Father in Heaven. He knows their hearts, and they will not succeed if you will act upon this and keep a constant vigilance of prayer going throughout the world for your Pope, the Holy Vicar in Rome." - Jesus, June 18, 1991

PLOTTING ASSASSINATION
"See that picture, My child. There is silver, much silver being placed upon a table, and hungry eyes look at it until, like the magic of satanism, their minds are clouded.
     "And I see among them many clerics; they are Roman Catholic clerics. They are among those ... who are plotting the assassination of Pope John Paul II.
     "May God, My children, have mercy on their souls, and stop them before it is too late. They cannot hide their guilt from the Eternal Father. And as they mislead the flock, and even stoop to murder to get their way, they are nothing but agents of hell." - Our Lady of the Roses, July 1, 1985

RULING BODY*
"Satan has been given much power.... His plan, My children, and listen well, is to capture the ruling body within My Son's Church." - Our Lady of the Roses, April 10, 1976

SEAT OF THE ANTICHRIST
"666, Lucifer and his agents have advanced upon the world and are in the city of Rome. I say unto you, My children, that you must now work to preserve My Son's House, His Church! Because, unless you pray and do penance now, Rome, the Eternal City, will become the seat of the Antichrist!" - Our Lady of the Roses, July 15, 1978

ANTICHRIST POPE
"The Rock has always withstood the test of time. But one will be entered into the House of God, and woe to man when he places him upon the Seat of Peter, for then the Great Day of the Lord shall be at hand." - Pope St. Pius X, March 18, 1974

DESPOT
"My child and My children, you will continue to pray for your Vicar in Rome, Pope John Paul II. At this very moment, there is now being held a conference in secret to the world for his extermination, and to place upon the Seat of Peter the despot." - Our Lady of the Roses, October 6, 1992

ENSLAVED
"Know that when they have given over My Church to the world, and as Satan deludes them to unite all into a one world religion and a one-world government, you are enslaved and it is the end!" - Jesus, April 2, 1977

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