The Deep State has been operating for quite some time, and quite longer than 50 years, and longer than November 1963 too… probably since Edith Wilson was running the country. Not that Nixon’s arrogance didn’t come into play, but ultimately Watergate was an opportunity his enemies couldn’t resist, the RINOs most especially. They played it just like we saw with the J6 committee, except the hearings were broadcast live every day to every housewife in America, replacing the afternoon soaps. In today’s terms, we would call it “election interference:” Nixon had won re-election in 1972 carrying 49 states, 520 electoral votes to McGovern’s 17. But my point today of course is to point out how easy it is to resign your Office.
You resign it, you sign it, done.
Amen to that!
But was it universally accepted?
I do remember that day. I was 9 years old and no fan of Nixon. Compared to what we have now, however,
he is practically another Blessed Karl of Austria!
As an aside, his wife Pat, was a cradle Catholic but tragically left the Faith when she married Nixon.
Just remember, a pope has to resign the ministry and the office. The worst pope in history, Benedict XVI could have written, “I hereby resign the Office and Ministry of the Papacy” or something like this. But, he didn’t. And now we’re in hell.
Do you really think that if Benedict XVI would have made a valid renunciation the world would not have become as it is now? That the clique of faggots and apostates in the Vatican wouldn’t have elected Bergoglio and that the globalists wouldn’t have done what they did? Seriously?
Ago86,
Actually, yes. Precisely that.
There has been violence committed against the Divine Office of the Papacy, on multiple levels and over significant time, involving growing numbers of participants. That has profound spiritual consequences. That also has significant temporal consequences.
Bergoglio and everything that has gone wrong in the dumpster fire of our day can be directly traced to the false resignation that gave us two visible Popes, one of whom was called some horrible new thing – “Eneritus Pope”.
God is connected to our world through His Body, Holy Mother Church, through His Vicar/Viceroy the Pope. There is a significant disturbance in the Papacy which has shaken the Church to Her foundation, and the world with Her.
Ago86,
Yeah I do. Because Benedict XVI’s false resignation allowed a heretic to take power while the Pope languished behind the scenes. Had Benedict XVI made a legitimate resignation, the papacy would’ve been protected from a heretic. We’ve had antipope’s before. This antipope came about by Benedict, WHO STILL RETAINED THE PAPACY until his death, but who GAVE this power to a manifest heretic.
I believe in the supernatural protection of the Church. Do you? Seriously?
@Aqua: You get confused with the Force in Star Wars movies: you’re talking about the Jedi, not the Pope (I sense a significant disturbance in the Force) – reality is not a Hollywood movie. God does NOT act only through the Church – She is not His “connection” with us.
@Mike: Things did not start with Benedict XVI, and it is certainly not his fault that the world is what it is today – regardless of who is Pope or not.
Ago86,
The Church is the visible Body of Christ.
And I didn’t say “only”. You did.
Upon further review:
You are also incorrect by asserting the RCC is not His connection to us. She is, in every way that matters – The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and His Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity, Sacramentally, graces.
He acts in the world, His world, in infinite ways. And He is specifically and especially connected to this world through His Church. Not only through Her. Primarily through Her. That “connection” is what He established after His triumphant resurrection, prior to His Ascension.
Speaking of…
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archbishop-vigano-bergoglio-is-an-anti-pope-benedicts-resignation-was-certainly-invalid/
Supplemental
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2023/03/27/for-decades-i-have-explained-that-watergate-was-a-cia-scheme-to-remove-president-nixon-from-office/
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/01/24/presidential-crimes-then-and-now-paul-craig-roberts/
I don’t see how he had the gift of unfailing faith as the pope by trying to split the papacy unless he was invincibly ignorant or invalidly resigned on purpose. The former is unlikely and the latter is the plausible solution.
Whenever someone brings up heretical ideas as a reason they are ignoring that a formal heretic is ipso facto deposed from the papacy.
There is a theory that Benedict, in weakness, and being threatened/coerced to resign, deliberately introduced error into his resignation to invalidate it as a workaround. I believe Mazza demonstrated from Benedict’s writings and German theological discussions that this splitting the papacy thing was known, and that Benedict was aware that this was an error.
I too have argued that if Benedict actually subscribed to this heresy, then it’s possible he’d be ipso facto deposed, and the conclave was valid. But that would have to be proven. He’s dead now, so we wasted time, and can’t anymore judge him. However, the fact remains that regardless of Benedict’s state of mind, the resignation is invalid on paper, by the law itself. And was never corrected before the conclave, thus invalidating the conclave, and even if Francis were a good man, he’d still be an Anti-Pope.
I sort of wonder if this is a part of God’s providence. A true pope would never permit the Church of Rome to defect from the faith. Since the cardinals wanted to elect a man who wasn’t Catholic, by a false resignation God made sure that whoever they elected could not be a true pope, thus keeping His promise without interfering with human free will.