Posted 17 Feb 2014

A Message From Above? Lightning Strikes Vatican After Pope Benedict Resigns

The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI occurred on 28 February 2013 at 20:00 CET (19:00 UTC).

The resignation was first announced on the morning of 11 February 2013 by the Vatican. Benedict’s decision to step down as leader of the Catholic Church made him the first pope to relinquish the office since Pope Gregory XII in 1415(who did so in order to end the Western Schism), and the first to do so on his own initiative since Pope Celestine V in 1294.The move was unexpected, given that the modern era popes have held the position from election until death. The Pope stated that the reason for his decision was his declining health due to old age. The conclave to select his successor began on 12 March 2013, and elected Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, who took the name of Francis.

Last year, as Pope Benedict was soon to hang up his mitre on announcing his resignation on Feb 11 2013, some 6 hours later, lightning struck TWICE in St Peters basilica in the Vatican

RAINSTORM IN ST.PETER'S PLACE

His was the moment lightning  struck the Vatican today – hours after Pope  Benedict XVI’s bolt-from-the-blue resignation.

The lightning touched the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica, one of the holiest  Catholic churches, after the  Pope’s shock admission he lacks strength to do the job.

The Vatican stressed that no specific medical condition prompted Benedict’s  decision to quit –  the first pontiff to do so in 600 years.

The move surprised even his closest aides, even though Benedict, 85, had made  clear in the past he would step down if he became too old or infirm.

In recent years, the Pope has slowed down significantly, cutting back his  foreign travel and limiting his audiences.

He now goes to and from the altar in St Peter’s Basilica on a moving  platform, to spare him the long walk down the aisle. Occasionally he uses a  cane.

His 89-year-old brother, Georg Ratzinger, said doctors had recently advised  the Pope not to take any more trans-Atlantic trips.

“His age is weighing on him,” Mr Ratzinger said. “At this age my brother  wants more rest.”

Benedict  announced his resignation in Latin during a meeting of Vatican cardinals,  calling it “a decision of great importance for the life of the church.”

He emphasised that carrying out the duties of being pope requires “both  strength of mind and body.”

He told the cardinals: “I have come to the certainty that my strengths due to  an advanced age are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine  ministry.”

The Vatican will hold a conclave before Easter to elect a new pope, with  Benedict holding great sway over who  should succeed him to lead the world’s one billion Catholics.

Benedict has already hand-picked the bulk of the College of Cardinals – the  princes of the church who will elect the next pope – to guarantee an  equally-conservative legacy.

There are no obvious front-runners to replace him – the same situation when  Benedict was elected in 2005 after the death of Pope John Paul II.

Given half of the world’s Catholics live in the global south, there  will once again be arguments for a pope to come from the developing  world.

When Benedict was elected aged 78, he was the oldest pope chosen in nearly  300 years.

He raised the possibility of resigning if he were too old or sick to  continue, when he was interviewed in 2010 for the book “Light of the World.”

“If a pope clearly realises that he is no longer physically, psychologically  and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a  right, and under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign,” Benedict  said.

The former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had an intimate view as Pope John Paul  II, with whom he had worked closely for nearly a quarter-century, suffered  through the debilitating end of his papacy.

The Vatican said immediately after his resignation that Benedict would go to  Castel Gandolfo, a summer retreat south of Rome, and then would live in a  cloistered monastery.

Pope Benedict's resignation statement

In a surprise announcement today, the  85-year-old Pontiff said he would leave his post on February 28

For more than 800 hundreds years scholars  have pointed to the dark augury having to do with “the last Pope.”
The  prophecy, taken from St. Malachy’s “Prophecy of the Popes,” is among a  list of verses predicting each of the Roman Catholic popes from Pope Celestine II to the final pope, “Peter the Roman,” whose reign would end in the destruction of Rome.
First published in 1595, the prophecies  were attributed to St. Malachy by a Benedictine historian named Arnold  de Wyon, who recorded them in his book, Lignum Vitæ. Tradition holds  that Malachy had been called to Rome by Pope Innocent II, and while  there, he experienced the vision of the future popes, including the last one, which he wrote down in a series of cryptic phrases.

According to  the prophecy, the next pope (following Benedict XVI) is to be the final  pontiff, will be Petrus Romanus or Peter the Roman.

The idea by some Catholics  that the next pope on St. Malachy’s list heralds the beginning of “great apostasy” followed by “great tribulation” sets the stage for the  imminent unfolding of apocalyptic events, something many non-Catholics  would agree with.
This would give rise to a false prophet, who according to the book of Revelation leads the world’s religious communities into  embracing a political leader known as Antichrist. In recent history,  several Catholic priests—some deceased now—have been surprisingly  outspoken on what they have seen as this inevitable danger rising from  within the ranks of Catholicism as a result of secret satanic “Illuminati-Masonic” influences.
These priests claim secret knowledge of an multinational power elite and occult hierarchy operating behind  supranatural and global political machinations. Among this secret  society are sinister false Catholic infiltrators who understand that, as the Roman Catholic Church represents one-sixth of the world’s  population and over half of all Christians, it is indispensable for  controlling future global elements in matters of church and state and  the fulfillment of a diabolical plan they call “Alta Vendetta,” which is set to assume control of the papacy and to help the False Prophet  deceive the world’s faithful (including Catholics) into worshipping  Antichrist.
The Vatican has the research institute which are seeking for extra terrestrial life….
Sources:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/lightning-strikes-vatican-day-pope-1704295#ixzz2tZa20pba

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