The growing discussion on social media concerning the nullity of Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is supported by a plethora of documented information that has never truly been refuted. None less than Benedict himself made it clear that he forever remained the Petrine servant of God because of his perpetual acceptance of the Petrine Office. Benedict simply resigned from the active ministry of governing the Church without abandoning his office.
On the eve of his resignation, he said:
From the text we can infer that there was no revocation of Benedict’s office. According to Church law, a pope must fully give up his office for his resignation to be valid (Canon 332). The text indicates that Benedict chose to retain his office "forever," which is why he continued to wear the white papal garb and to go by the name Benedict XVI and why he continued living within the Vatican walls. Canon 332 says that the pope’s resignation must be done “freely” to render it valid. A decision to resign cannot be said to have been free if blackmail or political pressures played any part in it.
The truth is that Benedict XVI was forced into vacating the Chair of Peter, but this was done under the guise of a resignation so as to not split the Barque of Peter asunder with controversy. Credible reports from 2015 indicate that Benedict XVI was coerced into stepping down, which was providentially foreshadowed in his inaugural speech of April 24, 2005, when he said: "Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves."
Benedict did flee but on his own terms. If we could paraphrase his response to his foes it might sound something like: “OK, you want to heist the Throne, you want to drive the ship? Fine, but don’t ask me to give up my Papal Office because that is a special mark from God that belongs to me ‘forever.’”
In Peter Seewald's biography Benedict XVI, His Life, he reveals that Pope Benedict told him that wicked cardinals pressured him into vacating the Chair of Peter. Benedict was brutally coerced by what he called this “Antichrist” cabal, which he said brought upon him pressures so great that remaining on the Throne would have literally killed him (via heart attack or even murder). These pressures left him no recourse but to act against his will.
Hence, when Benedict said that he was resigning for reasons of health he was saying the truth but not the whole truth. It was the cruel pressures and threats behind his failing health that caused him to step down.
We know from the late Cardinal Danneels of Brussels that he was part of the "Sankt Gallen Mafia" reformist group opposed to Benedict XVI. Danneels, known for his support of abortion, LGBT rights, and gay-marriage, said in a taped interview in September 2015 that he and several cardinals were part of this "mafia" club that was calling for drastic changes in the Church, to make it "much more modern," and that the plan was to oust Benedict and have Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio head it.
However, it wasn’t possible that Bergoglio could be raised to the Pontificate as long as Benedict retained his papal munus (office) because two popes cannot coexist at the same time. But what is possible is that an antichurch cabal could bump off a true pope so that they can install their man onto the Chair of Peter.
On December 30, 2022, the eve of Benedict's burial, retired brigadier general and Catholic author Piero Laporta reported that shortly after Benedict's election in 2005, “a leading delegate of the U.S. government, who had his hands in Italian finances” and who was “a figure in the highest ranks of the National Security Agency (NSA)” was “bragging about the resignation to which H.H. Benedict XVI of revered memory would soon be forced.”
The agent was reportedly tied with “a great Roman circle that is still active today” and that is even more powerful than the “Sankt Gallen group.” Laporta said this “Roman circle,” which he calls the “dome of demons,” was dedicated to the slogans “God is dead” and “Jesus is fake news” and was in a “panic” when Benedict was elected. The infamous clique worked conjointly with the Sankt Gallen cabal that had clamored for Benedict's resignation, the same one that had almost prevented his election in 2005.
On February 10, 2012, almost one year to the day before Benedict XVI announced his resignation, it was reported that the pope was given only one year to live if he didn't resign. The Telegraph UK reported that Cardinal Paolo Romeo, Archbishop of Palermo, said these things to a group of people in Beijing toward the end of 2011.
"His remarks were expressed with such certainty and resolution that the people he was speaking to thought, with a sense of alarm, that an attack on the Pope's life was being planned," the report said.
The extraordinary comments were written up in a top-secret report, dated Dec. 30, 2011, and delivered to Pope Benedict XVI by a senior cardinal, Dario Castrillon Hoyos, in January 2012. The report was written in German, apparently to limit the number of people within the Vatican who would understand it if inadvertently leaked. It warned of a "Mordkomplott" – death plot – against Benedict.
It was just a little over a year later, on February 11, 2013, that Pope Benedict announced he was stepping down from the Chair of Peter.
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David Martin is the former moderator for St. Michaels Radio which is the one radio program of our time specializing in Catholic prophecy. He has also authored numerous articles on the Church and the Papacy which have appeared on various blogs and websites.
David presently resides in Los Angeles, California where for thirty years he has coordinated a Catholic ministry. He is a daily communicant in his parish church and strongly supports Benedict XVI’s aspiration to see the Traditional Latin Mass returned to every Catholic parish of the world.
