"Benedict XVI is ...the pope."??? Thors, please, read this:
The Fox in the Henhouse
The defenders of the thesis 'Benedict is the Pope' focus their attention on the Canon Law, and although it seems to be extremely precise, it is not the letter of the law that animates the organism which is the Church, but the Holy Ghost. Look at the mass readings of Thursday, February 28, 2013, the last day of Pope …More
"Benedict XVI is ...the pope."??? Thors, please, read this:
The Fox in the Henhouse
The defenders of the thesis 'Benedict is the Pope' focus their attention on the Canon Law, and although it seems to be extremely precise, it is not the letter of the law that animates the organism which is the Church, but the Holy Ghost. Look at the mass readings of Thursday, February 28, 2013, the last day of Pope Benedict XVI at the Holy See. Writing hurriedly his Latin Act of the Renunciation on February 10, he hardly had time to check what the mass readings would be on the last day of his office, after which 'sede vacante' was to begin (February 28, 2013, 8 pm CET) - they are completely devastating for him.
The First Reading, Jeremiah 17: 5-10; already the initial verse [5] reveals a significant flaw, which is not fitting for the person of the vicar of Jesus Christ:
"This said the Lord:
«Cursed man who puts hope in man
and who sees his strength in the body,
and turns his heart away from the Lord."
Didn't Benedict XVI justify his epochal decision by "the strength of body", did he not? His act of Renunciation is, in fact, the realization of God's judgment on Rome (and his pope), which was passed earlier [Jer 17, 3-4]:
„Sacrificing in the field: I will give thy strength, and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin in all thy borders. And thou shalt be left stripped of thy inheritance, which I gave thee: and I will make thee serve thy enemies in a land which thou knowest not: because thou hast kindled a fire in my wrath, it shall burn for ever.”
After 28 February 2013, wasn't the Roman Catholic church – 'the Mountain on the plain', the Vatican Hill in particular - handed over to her enemies? Over time, this has become evident to all who have seeing eyes, hearing ears and feeling hearts (and care about the fate of the Church).
An extra verse [Jer 17, 11] revealing the significant omission of Pope Benedict XVI:
„As the partridge hath hatched eggs which she did not lay: so is he that hath gathered riches, and not by right: in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and in his latter end he shall be a fool.”
Jorge the Apostate received the episcopal ordination and cardinal purple by decision of Pope John Paul II. Cardinal Bergoglio was the main rival of Cardinal Ratzinger at the AD2005 conclave. Why, being already Pope, Benedict XVI did not watch with the greatest attention this egg tossed from the end of the world, from Argentina?! Instead of throwing them out of the nest, as befits a vigilant host, he brooded the egg for years. The hen have sat out an egg for herself: the company of the sly fox, spiritual monster, the devourer of immortal souls! And when the hellish "chicken" hatched (March 13, 2013), instead of raising a scream at this sight, this hen (after all, not a rooster) made friends with this fox, which allowed her to take refuge in an abandoned henhouse (monastery) in the same garden on the Vatican Hill.
The Responsorial Psalm [PS 1, 1-2. 3.4 and 6]; as a comment I quote the omitted verse 5:
"Therefore the wicked shall not rise again in judgment: nor sinners in the council of the just."
What a judgment is this about? [John 16, 8-11]:
„And when he is come, he [the Paraclete] will convict the world of sin, and of justice, and of judgment. Of sin: because they believed not in me. And of justice: because I go to the Father; and you shall see me no longer. And of judgment: because the prince of this world is already judged.” Yes, the Lord Jesus leaving Rome in the person of his last vicar, the Pope Benedict XVI, made free space for the Paraclete, the other Comforter.
The Gospel [Luke 16, 19-31] of February 28, 2013 leaves no doubt that this is not just about Rome, but about the whole Church of Christ, whose visible head was Pope Benedict XVI. The verses 27-28 speak of it: " And he said: Then, father, I beseech thee, that thou wouldst send him to my father's house, for I have five brethren, That he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torments. " These five brothers are five traditional patriarchates: Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, Rome, Constantinople. The last Pope personally gave Rome in the hands of his successor, the terminator from Buenos Aires!
November 25, 2019 on the feast of the Virgin of Kykkos*, Nicosia, Cyprus and Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Virgin and Martyr
*Kykkos - etymologically from the Greek Κούκος, meaning 'cuckoo', the only breeding parasite in Europe.
P.S.
I really like the learned arguments of experts in Canon Law, in particular Fra Alexis Bugnolo's and Ann Barnhardt's, but Sancta Ecclesia is not the work of a canonist but of the Holy Spirit.