• POPE BENEDICT RESIGNS
• FEBRUARY 11, 2013
• BY: BILL SULLIVAN

Be careful of false prophets masquerading as Christian ministers


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Pope Benedict XVI resigns: Malachy’s Peter the Roman next?

Will the next Pope be Peter the Roman as supposedly predicted by St Malachy a medieval cabbalist and Irish priest? Many say he foretold all the popes that would exist from Celestine in 1130 AD to the time of Christ. Many says these writings languished in the Vatican archives until 1590, when they are published by Arnold de Wyon. The fascinating thing is that some take this as proof of the work of God in Catholic history. Others, no doubt take it as an example of self fulfilling prophecy. Since you know exactly what is supposed to be, you see to it happening.

Now this last belief is not totally fulfilling. While any one could write something about the past, before 1590, it would take some intriguing manipulations to make some of the predictions come to pass since 1590 concerning about half of the 112 popes predicted. A few examples will suffice: First I will give the pope’s name; his number and date; the basic prophecy and it supposed fulfillment.




Pope number 235, Paul V (1605–1621), corrupt nation; His papacy characterized by Nepotism.

237, Urban VIII (1623–1644, Lily and rose; native ofFlorence, red lily on its coat of arms, with a bee I am told taking nectar also from a rose.

239, Alexander VII (1655–1667), Guard of the mountains; family arms include six hills with a star.

244, Innocent XII (1691–1700), Rake in the door; Last name "Rastrello" in Italian means "rake."

258, Leo XIII (1878–1903), Light in the sky; coat of arms had a shooting star.

263, Bl. John XXIII (1958–1963), Shepherd and sailor; From Venice, a maritime city.

266, Bl. John Paul II (1978–2005), from the labor of the sun; Born on the day of a solar eclipse and entombed on the day of a solar eclipse.

267, Benedict XVI (2005–2013), Glory of the olive; Chose the regnal name Benedict after StBenedict of Nursia, founder of the Benedictine Order. The order's crest contains an olive branch.

268, supposedly the next pope called Peter the Roman will be the final and last Pope. In Malachy’s words, “In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church there will reign Peter the Roman, who will feed his flock amid many tribulations, after which the seven- hilled city will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people. The End."

The fact that many believe that Biblically we are in the very last of the last days and that this purported prophecy seems to fit right in even to the point of the destruction of the Harlot of Babylon, a Major portion of the church and it’s doctrines and inter-relationship with the world’s last human government; in which man will be brought to the edge of destruction. A world full of religious and governmental corruption and persecution of those that have the testimony of Jesus and keep the commandments of God; this should be very intriguingly watched. After all it will tell the tale. Either that organization is coming to an end under a Peter the Roman who will be elected Pope next or not. We are told that we should know by one of the Churches self-appointed feasts, Easter.

The last days of man: why man exists

Abuse survivors groups react to pope’s resignation

By Liz Goodwin, Yahoo! News | The Lookout – 5 hrs ago

Pope Benedict XVI, 85, will become the first pontiff to resign since the 15th century, the Vatican announced on Monday. He steps down on Feb. 28.

The pope said he was resigning because he does not have the physical strength necessary to do the job.

"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 Petrineministry," the pope said in a statement.

The pope took the helm in 2005, just when allegations that the church covered up sexual abuse by clerics were making waves in the U.S. and Ireland. Over the pope's next eight years on the job, sexual abuse allegations also surfaced in Germany, Norway and other European countries, and the ensuing crisis became one of the defining aspects of his tenure.

In a statement on Monday, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said the pope had brought a "listening heart" to victims of sexual abuse.

But some advocates and victims groups said on Monday that the pope did not turn his listening into adequate action.

David Clohessy, for one, executive director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, told Yahoo News that the pope's record on helping those abused by clergy is "terrible."

While he was pope, reporters uncovered Benedict XVI's personal connection to what advocates characterize as an inadequate response to abuse by church leadership for decades. In 1980, the pope, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, was aware of a 1980 decision to move a German priest who had molested children back into a parish after he received treatment from a psychiatrist, The New York Times reported in 2010.

And in 2010, the Associated Press reported that in 1985, Ratzinger resisted calls from a diocese in California to defrock a priest who had sexually abused children. The priest stayed at the church—and worked with children—while the Vatican deliberated whether he should be removed from his post for several more years.

In 2001, before he became pope, Ratzinger was put in charge of handling abuse cases for the Vatican. He reportedly was shocked at the pages of testimony from people who were abused, and he resolved to prevent future abuse. In 2010, he apologized for "unspeakable crimes" that had been committed by clergy against children around the world.

“I also acknowledge with you the shame and humiliation that all of us have suffered because of these sins,” he said.

The same year, the pope composed an open letter to those who were abused in Ireland, apologizing on behalf of the church. "You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry," he wrote. "I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated."

But while "some give him credit for talking about the crisis more than his predecessor," Clohessy said, "we think that's wrong. He's talked about abuse more simply because he's been forced to by external pressures." Clohessy's group, which he says has 12,000 members around the world, wanted the pope to more aggressively root out abusers from the church's ranks and set in place safeguards to prevent future abuse.

John Kelly, founder of Irish Survivors of Child Abuse, told the Guardian that Pope Benedict XVI had resisted their calls to investigate church leaders in Ireland accused of protecting priests accused of sexually abusing children. (The Irish government's Murphy Report concluded that church leaders in Dublin covered up abuse between 1975 and 2004.)

Kelly, who was abused by clerics as a child, said the Vatican's response was inadequate. "I'm afraid to say Pope Benedict won't be missed as the Vatican continued to block proper investigations into the abuse scandals during his term in office," Kelly told the Guardian. "Nor are we confident that things are going to be different because of all the conservative cardinals he appointed. For us, he broke his word."