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The Real Pope Benedict XVI Emerges...

“And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” – St. Matthew 16:18

Following what appeared to be a conciliatory approach to the first year of his papacy, Pope Benedict XVI is quickly reverting to his classic ultra-conservative persona.

April has been a month of celebration for Pope Benedict XVI. On the 16th, he celebrated his 80th birthday. Three days later came the second anniversary of this Bavarian pope’s ascension to the papal throne.

These two years have seen quite an evolution in Benedict’s papacy. The real Joseph Ratzinger is beginning to emerge from the carefully crafted image presented to the public at his commencement in office just 24 months ago.

It’s no secret that liberal theologians had hoped, upon Ratzinger’s election, for a softening of his reputation as “the rottweiler of the Vatican”—a reputation he earned largely during his term as prefect of the Doctrine of the Faith (the ancient Office of the Holy Inquisition). In the early months of his papacy, this pope even seemed to give them some hope of metamorphosing from his traditional approach of stern conservatism into non-judgmental amiability (most certainly since the release of his famous first encyclical, “God Is Love,” delivered on Dec. 25, 2005). General commentary at the time was positive: A “pontiff who liked cats and played the piano” surely could not be all that bad (Spectator, March 24).

Yet, since entering the second year of his papacy, the cat-loving, piano-playing pontiff has increasingly revealed the other side of his character. His clear, concise and oft-reiterated strident stance on abortion, same-sex unions, unions between unwed partners, and revival of the old Latin liturgy, has become increasingly apparent through numerous public pronouncements.

The liberals within the Roman Catholic Church now find themselves on the defensive.

Here is a pope who has clearly mounted his crusading white horse and is wading into battle, resuming the fight against liberalism that he waged as the enforcer of church doctrine in his previous office. Yet Ratzinger now does so with all the weight of not only the office of the papacy, but also a whole army of conservative cardinals set to back him all the way.

But it’s not just the Catholic Church this pope has set about reforming. His vision is far greater!

Joseph Ratzinger has always been a prodigious writer, having authored over three dozen books throughout his priestly career. What is worthy of note is that three of his most recent works—Values in a Time of Upheaval; Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures and Without Roots: The West, Relativism, Christianity, Islam—concentrate on the spiritual confusion and competition extant in the world today due to the clash of cultures that has erupted in this 21st century. Woven through each of these books is an argument for the world to become enlightened to its need for the establishment of society on certain fundamental values … Christian values. To place Ratzinger’s theses in each of these treatises in full perspective, one must remember that wherever he uses the term Christian, to him it means Roman Catholic. Wherever he employs the term values, it means the values of Rome’s religion.

Of increasing interest is that Joseph Ratzinger, as Benedict xvi, is becoming overtly political in his behavior. In his book Values in a Time of Upheaval, Ratzinger declares, “[W]e Christians may and must bring hope into that which is transitory, into the world of our states.” Thus the pope seeks to motivate Catholics with a new zeal to penetrate the politics of their individual nation-states with Catholic values, which he sees as the only hope for mankind in this tumultuous “time of upheaval” in which we live.

Recently, during a visit to Berlin, I interviewed a vice president of the Bundestag. We had noted that Count Otto von Habsburg had publicly declared, on the occasion of the European Union’s 50th anniversary, his belief that Europe was on the brink of a “great Christian revival.” I asked the vice president, “Do you think that revival, within Europe, will come by imposition from above, by the EU leadership, or will it result from a grassroots groundswell?” Without hesitation, her response was, “From the grassroots.”

That has been the history to date.

The most revivalist Catholic states in Europe are those ex-Soviet Eastern European EU member nations. That all started with a Polish pope, John Paul ii, appealing to the masses, at grassroots level—the workers—through a labor union movement, “Solidarity.” The upshot was the implosion of the entire Soviet Union, and a rush back to mother Europe’s arms by 10 Eastern European nations of historically Catholic religious disposition. They were quickly taken into the EU fold.

As soon as they were released from the bonds of Soviet tyranny, these nations exploded with a great release of pent-up religious zeal from the masses, who returned to regular religious practice in their ancient houses of worship in droves. It was a grassroots revival as they turned back to the comforting nurture of the mother church upon which their individual national heritages, stultified under the Soviet boot heel, were historically based.

But Western Europe, the economic and political backbone of the now 27-nation combine of the European Union, is the pope’s greatest challenge. Tainted since the Enlightenment with rationalist, secularist thought, these nations have proved a challenge to Rome’s efforts to draw them back to their Catholic roots.

The problem is one of values.

Liberalism has cut deep into the Western European democracies. The pope’s answer is to muster his troops into a values-based political crusade!

This political motivation is increasingly apparent in both Ratzinger’s writings and public pronouncements. In the book previously quoted, the pope declares, “[T]ruth is not a product of politics (the majority) but is antecedent to political activity and sheds light on it. … Political activity is just and promotes freedom when it serves a complex of values and rights that reason makes known to us” (ibid.).

In his quest for the conversion of Europe to a system of government based upon his concept of Christian values, Benedict xvi has some politically influential friends. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the EU, the pope lambasted EU leaders for their failure to embed an acknowledgement of Europe’s Christian values heritage within the controversial EU constitution. On the occasion of his birthday, his observations concerning those influential friends in European politics were far warmer.

The Vatican news agency, Zenit, reporting on the pope’s audiences with certain German visitors, commented that Benedict used the occasion to declare that “the peace promoted by the Christian faith is key to avoiding the so-called clash of civilizations. The pope said this on … his birthday, in the meeting he had with Cardinal Friedrich Wetter, retired archbishop of Munich, who was accompanied by 50 delegates” (April 17). Even more interestingly, commenting on an audience he had that day with Edmund Stoiber, prime minister of the pope’s native Bavaria, and Peter Harry Carstensen, prime minister of Schleswig-Holstein, “The pontiff said … both of them showed an interior certainty that the faith opens a future, and that in this moment of encounter between cultures, as well as in the impending clash between them, it is highly important that the interior, peaceful and renewing strength of the Christian faith stays alive in our culture, thereby acting as a positive influence on the future.”

There exists within the present-day German political environment an aggressive religious element, extremely supportive of Benedict and highly influential within Europe, reaching on down through the various levels of EU bureaucracy to the heart of its administrative headquarters in Brussels. Stoiber and Carstensen are foremost representatives of this element, which is biding its time, just waiting to be tapped to stimulate that grassroots response from Europe’s leading nation. This will soon catalyze a remarkable unity of political mind and will within the EU in the not too distant future (Revelation 17:13), resulting in the fulfillment of Otto von Habsburg’s vision of a great Christian revival in Europe.

How wide is this pope’s vision? Perhaps that was also made clear on his birthday, when, upon receiving the Orthodox prelate, Metropolitan Ioannis Zizioulas of Pergamum, representing the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, Benedict commented that “He is supported by a deep interior conviction that the meeting between Rome and Orthodoxy is fundamentally important for the European continent and the future of the universe” (ibid.).

Keep watching Pope Benedict. Keep watching Edmund Stoiber. Watch the closeness of their relationship continue to develop. It may yet be destined to have tremendous impact on the global order of the immediate future, even bound to have not just a continent-wide effect in Europe, but also a universal effect, globally (Revelation 13:7-9).

Pope Defrocks Former Illinois Priest...

BELLEVILLE, Ill. - April 24, 2007 - Pope Benedict XVI defrocked a priest accused of sexually molesting teenage boys decades ago while directing a Catholic youth camp, church officials said Monday.  Robert Vonnahmen, 76, was removed from the priesthood "for the good of the Church," Bishop Edward Braxton of the Diocese of Belleville said in a statement.  In 1993, a man sued the diocese in southern Illinois for negligence, saying Vonnahmen sodomized him in 1981, when he was 13, at the diocese-owned Camp Ondessonk.

Please pray for Pope Benedict XVI, for his protection and that he continues in strength, wisdom, and influence.

"Many now rebel against their leader, their God-given leader, your Vicar.  In matters of faith and morals, man must not change the God-given laws, coming from the seat of Peter, and established through tradition upon earth through My Son's Church." - Our Lady of the Roses, October 6, 1979

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PETER'S DESCENDANTS SHALL RULE
"You must not compromise your Faith, My children, by bringing in those who have separated themselves from your true Church. This Church was founded by My Son, and He set a leader, a Pope, among you.
     "Peter and his descendants shall rule. There shall not be set up a governing body of hierarchy!" - Our Lady, November 20, 1975 

MAINTAIN THE PAPACY
"I ask you again not to abandon your parish churches. You will maintain the papacy in Rome. I tell you anew that 666 now is in Rome. Do not judge My Son's Church by His pastors. In their human nature they can err; however, as legitimate legally-ordained Roman Catholic priests they will bring My Son to you if you come seeking Him at the tabernacles of the world. The Mass is valid, I say unto you!
     "My Son is waiting for you at the tabernacles of His Church. My children, do not abandon Him in these days of deep spiritual darkness. You must all keep a constant vigilance of prayer going throughout your country, the United States, and Canada, and all of the countries throughout your world.” – Our Lady, June 10, 1978 

REMAIN  WITH  ROME
"We ask you from Heaven not to leave, not to create a schism from your main body in Rome. You must remain within My Son's Church and pray a constant vigilance of prayer. Satan and his agents have entered in full battle upon My Son's Church. Satan has entered into the highest ranks within My Son's Church and the world. He will manipulate powers, provincials, until he brings about a great chastisement, because man will not listen and mend his ways." - Our Lady, February 10, 1977 

PASTORS HAVE CHOSEN THEIR OWN WAY
"There is great disobedience in the houses of My Son throughout the world, and a great predominance of such in your country. Pastors have chosen their own way. Many are in great disobedience to Our Vicar. Man has been set up as an idol of worship. No man shall be above the Creator, for all man will eventually return to the dust. The soul is eternal; life continues. The word 'death' should be removed as such from your books. There is no death. Your body is but a casing, a temple for your holy spirit. When you desecrate this temple, you desecrate your spirit. You blacken this holy edifice of the Father and as such, without redemption, you must be given to satan.” – Our Lady, August 5, 1974 

“THEY HAVE CAST ASIDE OUR VICAR AND HIS WARNINGS”
"Yes, My child, many have given themselves to disobedience of your Holy Father, your Vicar. We have asked him to condemn the practice of calling upon the spirit. He has followed the direction of the Father, but many of his clergy have fallen into disobedience of your Vicar. Many have chosen to go their own way, following their own rules without discipline. Many have set themselves up to guide others without the true knowledge, for they have cast aside Our Vicar and his warnings. Yes, Our Holy Father suffers much, My child. Pray much for him, for his strength is greatly taxed by those who give him much sorrow. Those he has trusted have set the knives into his heart." – Our Lady, June 15, 1974

CAPTURE OF ROME
"Russia has great plans for the capture of Rome. I beg unto you as your Mother to listen now while there is time." - Our Lady, November 20, 1978

THE FIGHT FOR POWER HAS BEGUN
"The forces of evil are gathering.  666 now controls all the world, and sad to say, My children, 666 has entered upon Rome, and the fight for power has begun.  Pray for your Vicar.  Pray for all men of sin, and above all, My children, pray for your children, for many parents shall shed tears of great remorse—too late!" - Jesus, September 28, 1976  

DISOBEDIENCE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED
"Remember, My children and My child, I have given fair warning to the world that if you refused the Message from Heaven, neither caring nor endeavoring to act upon the Message from Heaven, you would be put to great test. Michael, the guardian of My Son's Church upon earth, must be returned now to his rightful place in My Son's Church and in the hearts of all mankind. The supernatural must not be rejected any longer. Disobedience to your Vicar will not be tolerated by the Eternal Father in matters of faith and morals.” – Our Lady, September 28, 1979

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D265 - The Papacy  PDF
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D301 - Satan's war against the Papacy, Part 2

Articles...

Pope Benedict XVI on the disintegration of the liturgy
http://www.tldm.org/news7/PopeBenedictXVIDisintegrationOfLiturgy.htm

Pope Benedict XVI on life, faith, family and freedom
http://www.tldm.org/News7/PopeBenedictXVIFaith&Family.htm

Pope Benedict XVI on Church after Vatican II: "incontrovertible that this period has definitely been unfavorable for the Church"
http://www.tldm.org/directives/d193.htm

Pope Benedict XVI: the Mass reduced to a show
http://www.tldm.org/News7/PopeBenedictXVIMassReducedToAShow.htm

Pope Benedict XVI on the theology of kneeling
http://www.tldm.org/News8/PopeBenedictXVITheologyOfKneeling.htm

Pope Benedict against Harry Potter: speaks of "subtle seductions" that "deeply affect (children) and corrupt the Christian faith in souls"
http://www.tldm.org/News8/Pope%20BenedictAgainstHarryPotter.htm

Pope Benedict stresses necessity to halt cafeteria Catholicism
http://www.tldm.org/News8/PopeBenedictCafeteriaCatholicism.htm

Holy Communion for divorced and remarried undermines Sacrament of Matrimony says Pope Benedict
http://www.tldm.org/News8/Communion&DivorcedPopeBenedict.htm

Vatican says no to homosexuals in priesthood - approved by Pope Benedict
http://www.tldm.org/News8/homosexualityPriesthood3.htm 

Pope Benedict attacks 'hypocritical' secularists: calls those who want to exclude God from public life intolerant
http://www.tldm.org/News8/PopeBenedictAttacksSecularists.htm

Vatican correspondent notes Pope Benedict using "apocalyptic" language
http://www.tldm.org/News8/PopeBenedictApocalypse.htm

Pope Benedict XVI and his support for the Old Mass
http://www.tldm.org/News8/PopeBenedictSupportsOldMass.htm

Pope Benedict spied on by East German Communist Secret Police from 1974
http://www.tldm.org/News8/PopeBenedictSpiedOn.htm

Pope Benedict to bishops: Don't water down Church teachings
http://www.tldm.org/News8/PopeDon'tWaterDownTeachings.htm

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