If the “secret knowledge to which he was privy” is actually anything close to what is believed to be the true and authentic warning of Fatima, then surely it should have made him all the more determined and resolved to remain steadfast at his post, in order to stand watch and guard — like a good and faithful Shepherd — the Flock of Christ against the grave dangers that had been foretold and about which he had firsthand personal knowledge and affirmation….right? Come on, @Live Mike give me a break. Let’s be for real here. Benedict abandoned us, just when we needed him most — not just the Church, but when the whole world needed him most. His abdication is what released the wolves to openly commence the wholesale slaughter we see and experience throughout the earth today, spiritually and in some cases, even physically. He LITERALLY handed the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven and the Throne of Saint Peter to Francis and his slavering horde of degenerate apostates, ushering in a reign of heresy and abomination the likes of which the Church has never seen. So, though I love him dearly and miss him deeply, and in charity forgive him completely, I have no sympathy for him nor his plight whatsoever. And regard much of what he said during his pontificate such as the quotes you post of him, to be the words of a cowardly hypocrite.

I hear you. Allow me to explain what I meant. I have never read the actual text of the Third Secret that was never published, which contained the words of Our Lady, and so I am ignorant of that information. In my darkness and unknowing I wonder if Pope Benedict XVI, in light of something in the Secret and in that exact intelligence, was led to make the very decision that he made & precisely at that particular moment in time. Do you see what I'm trying to say? @SonoftheChurch

Yes, I see what you are saying, and I understand the “benefit of the doubt” that you clearly want to give our beloved and late Pope Emeritus, and there was a time that I blindly wished to do the same. But I’m not entirely certain that your theoretical supposition actually applies in this case. Because, unless there was an EXPLICIT, unambiguous command given directly and expressly to him in the message of Fatima, ordering him — by name — to renounce the Papacy, abdicate the Petrine Throne and destroy his Pontificate, then I see no cause for him to have done such a thing based on any other kind of foretelling or forewarning that could have been given and spoken of in the Fatima texts, regardless of how dire and terror-inducing the predictions therein may actually be.

Without a direct order for him to do so, I cannot see nor believe that what was contained in the message of Fatima would move and inspire him to abandon his divinely appointed duties as the Chief Watchman and Guardian of the Faith on earth, and cause him to so callously forsake the Flock of Christ, handing the Throne and Keys of Saint Peter and the Apostolic See — knowingly and willingly — over into the cruel, foul clutches of Satan’s minions to wreak mayhem and destruction throughout the whole Church and all over the entire world. Nothing he read from Fatima could have encouraged or even driven him to ever do such a foolhardy thing. It would be utterly unthinkable.

On the contrary, if in fact His Holiness actually READ the third secret of Fatima in its entirety, and was keenly aware and cognizant of its potency and the full extent of its importance, then such knowledge should have made him even the more resolute and unmovable, with a steadfast determination and renewed zeal to stand firm with relentless tenacity and implacable courage as Supreme Defender of the Deposit of Faith, refusing to budge even one inch while he yet lived and there remained a single breath in his body, rejecting all calls for him to retreat from the heat of the battle. The words of Fatima should have made his will indomitable, harder than diamond, unbending as concrete, disdaining all talk of waving a white flag of surrender, and dismissing any thought of conceding any ground whatsoever in the spiritual war being waged for the heart and soul of the Church.

But alas, this he did not do. Instead, like a frightened coward, or a terrified rabbit bolting for a hole, he ran from the rabid, diabolically infected wolves, just as he eerily predicted he might, and abandoned us, giving us over into the unclean abominations of those heretics and apostates who would, if it were possible, incinerate and obliterate all that is holy. No, our dear Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, did not stay the course, he did not hold fast, he did not stand strong. Our good Pope deserted the Spouse of Christ when she needed him most, in the darkest of hours, in her deepest and most painful passion…leaving her bereft and without a Roman Pontiff dedicated to truth and holiness to guide and protect her.

And for that, @Live Mike he will surely face the fierce judgement of The One Who called and anointed him as His Vicar.