Pope Benedict XVI Resigned under Obama Pressure, by Thomas
Williams, 3/8/17, Brietbart
An Italian archbishop close to Pope Benedict XVI has claimed
that the Obama administration may have been complicit in the “tremendous pressures”
that led the former pope to resign in 2013.
It is
“no coincidence” that some Catholic groups “have asked President Trump to open
a commission of inquiry to investigate whether the administration of Barack
Obama exerted pressure on Benedict,” said Archbishop Luigi Negri in an interview Monday, citing other
revelations by Wikileaks regarding efforts by the Democratic Party to sway the
direction of the Catholic Church in the United States. “It
remains shrouded in mystery for now,” he said to news outlet Rimini 2.0, “but I
am sure that those responsible will be found out.”
The
archbishop was making reference to a letter written by a group of American
Catholics to President Trump last January requesting that the administration
conduct an investigation into a possible Soros-Obama-Clinton conspiracy behind
the resignation of Pope Benedict.
The
letter stated specifically that “we have reason to believe that a Vatican
‘regime change’ was engineered by the Obama administration.”
Approximately
a year after an e-mail conversation released by Wikileaks, the authors
contended, “we find that Pope Benedict XVI abdicated under highly unusual
circumstances and was replaced by a pope whose apparent mission is to provide a
spiritual component to the radical ideological agenda of the international
left.”
In
startling revelations last October, Clinton campaign chief John Podesta was
found to have created phony “Catholic” organizations in order to use Church
leaders to push a liberal agenda in congress and to promote the agenda of the
Democratic Party.
In
the midst of the hundreds of John Podesta’s emails released by Wikileaks, one
contained a report by Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, a faux
Catholic association founded by Podesta to provoke a revolution in the Catholic
Church.
The
executive director of the organization, Christopher J. Hale, referred to the
group’s “grueling preparation for Pope Francis’s apostolic trip to the US.”
Along
with efforts to infiltrate the Church hierarchy, the organization’s collusion
with the Obama administration was also made apparent in Hale’s report.
“I
spoke to the White House yesterday and they assure us the media’s moniker
calling us ‘God Squad’ isn’t just sweet nothings, but actually a fair
assessment of the substantial difference we’re making in this conversation,” he
wrote.
Philadelphia
Archbishop Charles Chaput described a meeting with two members of the other
“Catholic” organization that Podesta claims to have founded—Catholics United.
In a published essay, the archbishop depicted a methodology eerily similar to
that employed by Catholics in Alliance.
Chaput
said that the two men were “obvious flacks for the Obama campaign and the
Democratic Party—creatures of a political machine, not men of the Church,” who
showed remarkable “talents of servile partisan hustling.”
In a
separate statement, the head of the U.S. Bishops Conference, Archbishop Joseph
E. Kurtz, issued an indictment of the Clinton team, calling them out for
interfering in the Church’s self-governance for “short-term political gain.”
Kurtz
suggested that Podesta’s actions in creating “Catholic” lobby groups for the
Democratic Party constituted a breach of religious freedom, “one of the
founding principles of our republic,” which ensures the right of faith
communities to “preserve the integrity of their beliefs and proper
self-governance.”
In
his interview Monday, Archbishop Negri said he has visited Pope Benedict
“several times” since the pontiff’s resignation in 2013. Negri resigned last
month as archbishop of Ferrara-Comacchio, a post assigned him by Pope Benedict,
upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75.
Archbishop
Negri did not lay all the blame for Benedict’s resignation on the Obama
administration, but said he was “certain that the truth will emerge one day
showing grave liability both inside and outside the Vatican.”
In
the interview, Negri was also critical of Pope Francis for failing to answer
the dubia—or “questions”—made by four Cardinals regarding certain teachings in the
Pope’s letter Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of
Love) that seem unclear to many in the Church.
“Amoris Laetitia needs clarification,
unfortunately, the current leader of the Church still remains silent,” he said.
“I think that the Holy Father should respond, although he seems to have decided
to the contrary.”
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