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Italian Archbishop Suggests Pope Benedict XVI Resigned Under Obama ‘Pressure’

Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on March 10, 2017

The image: While President Obama was escorting Pope Francis September 23, 2015, cameras captured something subliminal: HORNS

It wouldn’t be the first time it appeared Obama had a set of horns.

A year after Pope Benedict XVI was forced to resign, while giving a speech in the White House, it appeared the president had horns coming out of his head:


An Italian archbishop close to Pope Benedict XVI has claimed that the Obama administration may have been complicit in the “tremendous pressures” that led the former pope to resign in 2013.

It is “no coincidence” that some Catholic groups “have asked President Trump to open a commission of inquiry to investigate whether the administration of Barack Obama exerted pressure on Benedict,” said Archbishop Luigi Negri in an interview Monday, citing other revelations by Wikileaks regarding efforts by the Democratic Party to sway the direction of the Catholic Church in the United States.

It remains shrouded in mystery for now,” he said to news outlet Rimini 2.0, “but I am sure that those responsible will be found out.”

The archbishop was making reference to a letter written by a group of American Catholics to President Trump last January requesting that the administration conduct an investigation into a possible Soros-Obama-Clinton conspiracy behind the resignation of Pope Benedict.

The letter stated specifically that “we have reason to believe that a Vatican ‘regime change’ was engineered by the Obama administration.”

Approximately a year after an e-mail conversation released by Wikileaks, the authors contended, “we find that Pope Benedict XVI abdicated under highly unusual circumstances and was replaced by a pope whose apparent mission is to provide a spiritual component to the radical ideological agenda of the international left.”

In startling revelations last October, Clinton campaign chief John Podesta was found to have created phony “Catholic” organizations in order to use Church leaders to push a liberal agenda in congress and to promote the agenda of the Democratic Party.

In the midst of the hundreds of John Podesta’s emails released by Wikileaks, one contained a report by Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, a faux Catholic association founded by Podesta to provoke a revolution in the Catholic Church.

The executive director of the organization, Christopher J. Hale, referred to the group’s “grueling preparation for Pope Francis’s apostolic trip to the US.”

Along with efforts to infiltrate the Church hierarchy, the organization’s collusion with the Obama administration was also made apparent in Hale’s report.

I spoke to the White House yesterday and they assure us the media’s moniker calling us ‘God Squad’ isn’t just sweet nothings, but actually a fair assessment of the substantial difference we’re making in this conversation,” he wrote.

Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput described a meeting with two members of the other “Catholic” organization that Podesta claims to have founded—Catholics United. In a published essay, the archbishop depicted a methodology eerily similar to that employed by Catholics in Alliance.

Chaput said that the two men were “obvious flacks for the Obama campaign and the Democratic Party—creatures of a political machine, not men of the Church,” who showed remarkable “talents of servile partisan hustling.”

In a separate statement, the head of the U.S. Bishops Conference, Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz, issued an indictment of the Clinton team, calling them out for interfering in the Church’s self-governance for “short-term political gain.”

Kurtz suggested that Podesta’s actions in creating “Catholic” lobby groups for the Democratic Party constituted a breach of religious freedom, “one of the founding principles of our republic,” which ensures the right of faith communities to “preserve the integrity of their beliefs and proper self-governance.”

In his interview Monday, Archbishop Negri said he has visited Pope Benedict “several times” since the pontiff’s resignation in 2013. Negri resigned last month as archbishop of Ferrara-Comacchio, a post assigned him by Pope Benedict, upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75.

Archbishop Negri did not lay all the blame for Benedict’s resignation on the Obama administration, but said he was “certain that the truth will emerge one day showing grave liability both inside and outside the Vatican.”

In the interview, Negri was also critical of Pope Francis for failing to answer the dubia—or “questions”—made by four Cardinals regarding certain teachings in the Pope’s letter Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love) that seem unclear to many in the Church.

Amoris Laetitia needs clarification, unfortunately, the current leader of the Church still remains silent,” he said. “I think that the Holy Father should respond, although he seems to have decided to the contrary.”

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Nothing would surprise us. Let’s face it, he was the first pope to resign in 600 years. Something isn’t right.

We are fighting powers and principalities of heavenly realms. These are dark times indeed

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Lightning in Rome: Divine Intervention?

Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on February 12, 2013

VaticanThunder2This image was taken by Alessandro Di Meo, photographer agent of Ansa. The photographer was able to capture a lightning strike on St. Peter’s Dome on MONDAY, when the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI was officially announced. La Repubblica

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Could this be real? The truth is there was a major storm in Rome today — with thunder, lightning, hailstones…

Head of the Vatican office responsible for the basilica, Archbishop Comastri said in 2005 – the year Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI – that part of the restoration project includes putting up a new lightning rod “since a lot of lightning bolts hit the basilica.”

Two weeks ago the Dove of peace was attacked by a seagull

AxumObliskLightning

Back in 2002, on MONDAY, a 1,700-year-old Ethiopian obelisk was damaged in a lightning strike in Rome.

Several pieces from the top of the Axum Obelisk in central Rome crashed to the ground during a fierce thunderstorm .

The obelisk, which is 24 metres (78ft) high, was taken from the holy city of Axum in northern Ethiopia when the fascist regime of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini annexed the African country in 1937.

The lightning prompted Italy to return the stolen property of the Ethiopians. In 2005, after 68 years the monumental stelae was sent back to Ethiopia. The stele was reconstructed on its native ground in 2008,.

Some curious notes:

  • Ethiopia is an Orthodox Christian Country

  • Ethiopia is the first/second Christian country in the world

  • The Ethiopian College in Vatican is the only school still within the grounds of the Holy See

  • No Vatican Pope has ever visited Ethiopia

  • No US American President has ever visited Ethiopia

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