Tradcast Express, it's Monday, January 20th, 2020, Ratzinger Rising.
That is the title of a May 8th, 2017 article posted at First Things, written by William
Doino Jr., who is also a contributor to Inside the Vatican magazine.
Not surprisingly, the author sings the praises of how wonderful of a Catholic and how great
of a theologian Father Joseph Ratzinger is, the man today known as Pope Emeritus Benedict
XVI.
Yes, I know that Francis makes Benedict look like an ultra-Orthodox inquisitor serving
high mass for Pope St. Pius X, but looks can be deceiving.
See, Francis is very open about his apostasy, whereas Benedict has been hiding it under
a veneer of respectability, dignity, and orthodoxy, and that's a tactic that's been working
out for him very well.
Why am I bringing this up?
Well, no doubt.
You heard about the kerfuffle last week regarding the book From the Depths of Our Hearts, Defending
Priestly Celibacy, co-authored by Benedict, as well as Cardinal Robert Serra, the current
head of the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship.
In case you hadn't heard yet, I'll spare you the details and just say that the bottom line
is that the Vatican has ordered that Benedict's name be removed from the cover of the book
as the co-author, and instead be demoted.
To the status of contributor.
Yeah, it seems that Benedict and Serra threw a monkey wrench into plans by Francis to make
priestly celibacy optional when he issues his much-expected post-Amazon Synod apostatical
exhortation in the coming weeks.
This latest Vatican drama has once again manifested an apparent wedge between Francis and Benedict,
the supposed Pope and Pope Emeritus, respectively.
Now, whether that...
...opposition between the two is real or just pretended, the fact remains that it is
incredibly useful to the Vatican to religion, continuing its charade.
Think about it.
All those in the Novus Ordo Church who can't stand Francis any longer now appear to have
a really convenient alternative to fall back on.
Benedict.
Yeah, Benedict is the real Pope, see?
He wears white, he lives in the Vatican.
He garbled his resignation announcement, he bifurcated the papacy into an active and
a contemplative role, he still kind of calls himself Pope and still gives the apostolic
blessing.
And unlike his successor, he portrays dignity and looks orthodox.
In other words, if someone were trying to get you to think that Benedict is the real
Pope, he really couldn't drop any more hints, could he?
I mean, without giving it away completely.
For what it's worth, folks, my prediction is that 2020 will be the year that the Benedict
is the real Pope deception finds major acceptance, especially among the recognize and resist
traditionalists and conservative Novus Ordos.
And I believe that that is by intent.
Why by intent?
Who would benefit from this?
Not Francis, right?
That's true, Francis certainly wouldn't benefit from it, but the Novus Ordo Church as a whole
would.
Now remember, the Novus Ordo Church was a false modernist sect long before Jorge Bergoglio
ever moved into the Casa Santa Marta in the Vatican.
With Francis pushing the apostasy to the next level, they're now gradually moving in the
direction of all religions worshiping the same God, and God wills there to be many different
religions anyway.
With Francis pushing this apostasy ever further to its logical conclusions, the powers that
be know that there will be many that won't want to go along with it.
People who'll need a little assistance, so to speak, much like the Lefebvris did in the
1970s and after.
And look at them now.
It took them a number of decades longer than everybody else, but now they're well on their
way to full communion with the Vatican.
And with all that's been happening since the election of Bergoglio, you'd think the Society
of St. Pius X would be screaming at the top of its lungs denouncing the man, and yet there
is practically silence.
I mean, there's very little and only very low-key opposition from them.
So yeah, it took the SSPX a few decades to get to that point, but there they are.
And now that Francis...
Francis is at the helm and kicking the modernist revolution into ever higher gear, once again
a few stragglers need to be taken care of, so to speak, to ensure that they won't abandon
the modernist church altogether and, heaven forbid, figure out that the Holy See has been
vacant for all these years and the Novus Ordo hierarchy is mostly a bunch of non-Catholic
laymen in fancy costumes.
And in many cases, even the costumes leave a lot to be desired.
Look, this quip about costumes is not just rhetoric.
Consider what St. Paul says in his second letter to the Corinthians, chapter 11, verse 13.
Quote,
For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into the apostles
of Christ.
Unquote.
Heretics do disguise themselves as Catholics, both literally and metaphorically.
So,
what better way to ensure the deception will continue one way or another than by generating
a false opposition movement whose de facto head is someone whom the world once recognized
as the Pope?
Voila!
There is your Benedict XVI.
If he weren't already there, why, one would just have to invent him.
Just like the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden,
the whole scenario is just too attractive to resist right and alas once again many will partake
of that fruit thinking that by doing so their eyes are being opened how does it not occur to
people that this whole thing with benedict's odd resignation and the retaining of the papal garb
and the nonsense about an expanded papacy with an active member and a contemplative member and all
that was planned precisely so that those who refuse to stick with francis have another modernist
option to fall back on ensuring that they'll remain in the false church rather than become
sedevaconists this whole benedict is still the pope thing which we've called resignationism by
the way is nothing but a false opposition movement meant to control those who would otherwise figure
out that the vatican ii
said
cannot be the roman catholic church now don't get me wrong when i say false opposition i'm not saying
that all the people in it are malicious evildoers trying to deceive souls of course not no i think
that most of them are simply deceived themselves but either way the fact remains that this
opposition is false false in the sense that it doesn't provide an authentic catholic alternative
to the modernist revolution but is simply another less intense version of the same vatican ii religion
instead of taking you back to 1958 the benedict option if i may call it that will simply take you
back to 2012 but no matter whether you stick with francis or go over to benedict either way
you'll always get vatican ii not only is ratzinger one of the most important people in the world but
the world's biggest champions of the abominable council he himself was one of the major players
there and he's never repudiated it things are really really bad in novus orto land right now
and everyone seems to be reaching his breaking point to show you how serious matters are let me
quote to you some interesting comments from the editor of inside the vatican magazine robert
moynihan in the december 2019
edition he explains that for that particular issue he's refusing to cover the vatican news
because of quote the apostasy from traditional orthodox belief regarding faith and morals
meaning that a certain non-orthodox heretical opinion has begun to become preeminent in many
sectors of the church also in many places in rome also in many places inside the vatican
so that to report once again on the
news inside the vatican would be to report on many vices many sins and many non-catholic and
non-christian opinions causing more scandal to my readers unquote and so for the december issue
moynihan decided on the following course of action quote i will for one month boycott all news about
the vatican all news about scandal and corruption all news about heretical and apostate teaching
and
simply prepare an issue centered on christ on his birth his life his betrayal his suffering his death
and resurrection unquote this is a big deal inside the vatican is a flagship publication
if i'm not mistaken a copy of each issue is sent to every single nobles ordo bishop in the world
the situation is now so dire that for one month
editor-in-chief refuses to report on exactly what has been happening inside the vatican
not simply because there are vices and sins to report on but because there is heresy there's
apostasy i mean we're talking about an abandonment of the catholic religion that's what heresy and
apostasy are and we're at the point now where even journalists reporters are saying i can't take it
anymore. I can't report on this anymore. I've got to take a break. It's too much.
And by the way, the issue of whether Benedict is the real Pope is brought up occasionally
also in Inside the Vatican in the Letters to the Editors section. So Robert Moynihan
is not afraid to print that. So even there, this idea that Benedict didn't validly resign
and that Bergoglio is not the Pope for that reason, that is becoming, like I said, more
and more acceptable in the mainstream. And I think this year is going to be the year
that it really takes off. So you can see Francis is pushing the envelope so far now
that more and more people are concluding that Benedict is the legitimate Pope. And if that's
by design, it's a brilliant one-two punch.
Either way, with Benedict or with Francis, people will stay in the false modernist religion
and therefore will always get Vatican II. So don't be surprised if this year we'll once
again see Ratzinger rising.
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