BENEDICT WAS JUST ANOTHER PHONY, AND UNCATHOLIC FRANCIS IS DEFINITELY, ABSOLUTELY THE POPE, OK?!

THEY USED US AND SLANDERED ME! – LYING, REINSTATED GRAND CONDOM KNIGHT OF FRANCIS ATTACKS CD. BURKE BY CALLING HIM AN AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN

DAMIAN THOMPSON: FRANCISCHURCH DEADLOCKED IN A ‘SCHISM CONDITION’

GAY VETERANS’ GROUP SAYS THEY HAVE BEEN BANNED FROM BOSTON’S ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE – JUST TWO YEARS AFTER THEY WERE ALLOWED TO MARCH FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY

GRAMSCI, MARCUSE AND THE LONG ATHEIST MARCH THROUGH THE AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS

A DAY WITHOUT STUPID: LEAVING JOBS, RESPONSIBILITIES, ETC., UNDONE TO RANT ONLY SHOWS US WHO THE REAL WOMEN ARE.

SOCIAL SECURITY IS A GIANT PONZI SCHEME PERPETRATED BY DEMOCRATS

‘IF HEALTH WAS NOT THE TRUE REASON FOR BENEDICT’S ABDICATION I WOULD WAGER ON BLACKMAIL OF SOME SORT.’

THE VATICAN CELEBRATES A COMMUNIST HOLIDAY — INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

BARNHARDT: BENEDICT REMAINS THE ONE AND ONLY VICAR OF CHRIST, ALBEIT “INACTIVE” AND REFUSING TO DO HIS DUTY, AND HE HAS ENABLED THE USURPATION AND ASCENSION OF AN ANTIPOPE HELLBENT ON DESTROYING THE BRIDE OF CHRIST FROM THE INSIDE OUT.

BARNHARDT:  DISHONEST, MISERABLE BENEDICT-IN-HIDING IS THE POPE WE SO RICHLY DESERVE

HOLLYWOOD NUNS FIGHTING KATY PERRY DEFINITELY ‘UNIMPRESSED’

FR. MARTIN CALLS TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION POLICIES “ANTI-LIFE.” IS THAT FAIR?

FRANCISSALESMAN: “SMOOTH-TALKING OBSCURANTISTS LIKE WUERL HAVE LITTLE REGARD FOR THE “SHEEP” THEY ARE CONSTANTLY OOZING ABOUT.”

VERRECHIO: JORGE BERGOGLIO IS SOMEONE’S VICAR ALRIGHT

LINWOOD KAINE: IS THIS A CASE OF THE “APPLE DOESN’T FALL FAR FROM THE TREE?”

IF YOU DIDN’T THINK MARQUETTE WAS A LAUGHING STOCK BEFORE, YOU WILL NOW

“IN THIS SUPREME MOMENT OF NEED FOR THE CHURCH, THE ONE WHO SHOULD SPEAK WILL FALL SILENT.”

 

FRANCIS’ PHONY REPLACEMENT CHURCH WILL BE LUCKY TO LAST TWENTY YEARS

SHEA:  SPARE DYLANN ROOF!

OBAMA’S FAREWELL ADDRESS WAS A JUMBLE OF PLATITUDES AND DELUSIONS.

MEDICAL STUDENTS FOR CHOICE: GEORGETOWN BABY-MURDERING SEMINARS CANCELLED FOR NOW

IF THE POPE KEEPS REFUSING TO ANSWER THE DUBIA AND OPENLY SET THINGS RIGHT, HE MUST BE DECLARED A HERETIC HIMSELF.

ARMAGEDDON? EXORCIST ADVISES: DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT

NEW FRANCISVATICAN MCDONALD’S TO HAND OUT HOMELESS MEALS

CHARLESTON BISHOP PLEADS, MISREPRESENTS CATHOLIC TEACHING: SPARE MASS MURDERER DYLANN ROOF BECAUSE ALL LIFE IS SACRED, YOU KNOW.

WHY MORE AND MORE PRIESTS CAN’T STAND POPE FRANCIS:  DAMIAN THOMPSON COMPARES DISLIKABLE POPE FRANCIS TO TRUMP.

HUNGARY GETS SERIOUS ABOUT GEORGE SOROS

WILL POPE FRANCIS COME AFTER THE TRADITIONAL MASS?

JOHN SALZA: BEFORE POPE FRANCIS COULD BE CONSIDERED A PUBLIC HERETIC, HE WOULD HAVE TO BE ISSUED “A FIRST AND SECOND CORRECTION” (WARNINGS) BY “THE CARDINALS”

FERRARA:  CARDINALS MUST RESIST THE TYRANT, FRANCIS!

WRECKERFRANCIS TEARS DOWN CHRISTMAS NATIVITY A MONTH BEFORE CANDLEMAS

ABUSE: ‘HOLY’ FATHER, YOUR ‘CHLDREN’ HAVE QUESTIONS

Damian Thompson broaches the subject of the two-pope quandry today by first announcing that he’s about to wildly speculate.

Would Benedict have resigned if he knew Francis would succeed him? Purely hypothetical but interesting. Benedict must have known there was a chance that Cardinal Bergoglio would succeed him. My guess is that when the Argentinian emerged on the balcony the Pope Emeritus was dismayed but concluded that God works in mysterious ways. A more interesting, albeit even more hypothetical, question is whether Benedict would have resigned if he’d known Francis would call a synod that threw open the question of whether divorced and remarried Catholics should receive Communion.

My guess is that Benedict wasn’t the least bit surprised to get Bergoglio.  After defending the faith for two pontificates, how could he possibly have blamed God for the election of man like Francis?

Why does Benedict wear white?  Benedict’s decision to dress as pope – minus the little mozzetta cape around his shoulders, and switching from red to brown shoes – sends a signal to the faithful. But what signal? We don’t need reminding that he used to be the Supreme Pontiff. My theory is that, by remaining in papal white, Benedict communicates that although he is an ex-pope he is also a living successor of Peter. It would be fascinating to know whether Benedict feels that he retains some spiritual status or responsibility by virtue of having held his office.

Fascinating indeed!  Perhaps he’s almost papal himself.

Do some Catholics believe there are two popes? The Italian journalist Antonio Socci has proposed that Benedict XVI’s resignation was not canonically valid because he was forced out. He and other conspiracy theorists therefore believe there is only one pope, but he is not called Francis. This is nonsense. As for the “two popes” business, no one thinks there are two reigning pontiffs.

I’ve written before that I think it would be a bit of a stretch to expect God, if it were the case, to give the papal charism to a man installed by the enemies of the Church after a reigning pope was pulled down from the thrown.  I’m not sure we can faithfully presume God will go beyond what He’s always done.  I’ve never read that Socci believes Francis is not pope.  He doesn’t think he’s Catholic though, and I have to agree.

I don’t think Socci’s a ‘conspiracy theorist’ like Robert Dear.

In a time where there are two popes, an original and a second, and when such great evil reigns, I don’t think it’s nonsense to ‘speculate’ that the one who was pope first might still be pope.  His resignation may have been compelled by force, under the gun so to speak, and not willed by him at all.  Would that make Francis not Pope?  I don’t know.  Perhaps.  The Benedict XVI situation is almost entirely unprecedented, really.

As to the assertion, “no one thinks there are two reigning pontiffs,”  it seems Thompson is letting his blue blood show.  That fact is no-one with any establishment ‘credibility’ expresses that, but still people must wonder.

Thompson closes with this unfortunate whopper:

Of one thing we can be certain: he believes that the Keys of Peter were handed to Jorge Bergoglio by the Holy Spirit, in whom the faith of the Pope Emeritus has never wavered.

How could the man know that?