There Is Speculation That Pope Francis May Retire Soon Instead Of Living Out His Tenure

The Associated Press reported:

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Italian and Catholic media have been rife with unsourced speculation that the 85-year-old Francis might be planning to follow in Benedict’s footsteps, given his increased mobility problems that have forced him to use a wheelchair for the last month.

Those rumors gained steam last week when Francis announced a consistory to create 21 new cardinals scheduled for Aug. 27. Sixteen of those cardinals are under age 80 and eligible to vote in a conclave to elect Francis’ successor.

Once they are added to the ranks of princes of the church, Francis will have stacked the College of Cardinals with 83 of the 132 voting-age cardinals. While there is no guarantee how the cardinals might vote, the chances that they will tap a successor who shares Francis’ pastoral priorities become ever greater.

In announcing the Aug. 27 consistory, Francis also announced he would host two days of talks the following week to brief the cardinals about his recent apostolic constitution reforming the Vatican bureaucracy. That document, which goes into effect Sunday, allows women to head Vatican offices, imposes term limits on priestly Vatican employees and positions the Holy See as an institution at the service of local churches, rather than vice versa.

Francis was elected pope in 2013 on a mandate to reform the Roman Curia. Now that the nine-year project has been rolled out and at least partially implemented, Francis’ main task as pope has in some ways been accomplished.

All of which made Saturday’s otherwise routine announcement of a pastoral visit to L’Aquila carry more speculative weight than it might otherwise have.

Notable was the timing: The Vatican and the rest of Italy are usually on holiday in August to mid-September, with all but essential business closed. Calling a major consistory in late August to create new cardinals, gathering churchmen for two days of talks on implementing his reform and making a symbolically significant pastoral visit suggests Francis might have out-of-the-ordinary business in mind.

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In addition to upcoming trips this year to Congo, South Sudan, Canada and Kazakhstan, in 2023 he has scheduled a major meeting of the world’s bishops to debate the increasing decentralization of the Catholic Church, as well as the continued implementation of his reforms.

But Francis has been hobbled by the strained ligaments in his right knee that have made walking painful and difficult. He has told friends he doesn’t want to undergo surgery, reportedly because of his reaction to anesthesia last July when he had 33 centimeters (13 inches) of his large intestine removed.

[…] One of his closest advisers and friends, Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, said talk of a papal resignation or the end of Francis’ pontificate was unfounded.

I think these are optical illusions, cerebral illusions.

Maradiaga told Religion Digital, a Spanish-language Catholic site

Christopher Bellitto, a church historian at Kean University in Union, New Jersey, noted that most Vatican watchers expect Francis will eventually resign, but not before Benedict dies. The 95-year-old retired pope is physically frail but still alert and receiving occasional visitors in his home in the Vatican gardens.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

[1] And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: [2] With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. [5] And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. [18] And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

Revelation 17:1-2, 5, 18

For those unaware of how the whore of Babylon operates, Pope Francis is considered the “White Pope.” He is just the public relations puppet that gives the speeches, shakes people’s hands, and has people coddling up to him. However, he is not running anything, as the real handler is the “Black Pope,” who is the lead Jesuit General and the Jesuit order in tow. They are the real ones who do the scheming.

Be that is it may, whoever Mystery Babylon picks as a new pope – whether Frankenstein retires or God drops his soul (if he has one) to hell first – will be a monumental choice and shift in the world:

The true, bonafide, traditional Roman Catholics HATE Francis with such a fiery passion, as many of them have gone as far as to call him an antichrist (based on Catholic standards), because he is super progressive and woke, and has contradicted some of the most renowned and sacred Roman Catholic dogmas and traditions, as a means of playing politics and elevating the radical Left and woke crowd.

With that being said, if another progressive pope is inserted, then that means the Vatican wants to push the overt liberal narrative a bit further as it is, to bring down the West, as we have been seeing play out; and would cause the right and “trad-cats” to also become more militant by default.

Or a more traditional pope will be elevated to empower the trad-cats and conservatives to rise up and restore Catholicism to what they want it to be (Nazism-Spanish Inquisition-Pre-Vatican II); to ultimately force a regime change and “changing of the guard” internationally. The same agendas I have been reporting on will still occur and the West will still collapse, but it will be brought in through a different coat of paint and fervor

Ultimately, whatever decision is reached, I believe we will see a coming “Catholic Reformation” that will cause a massive church split, causing another “papal schism:” where different people pronounce themselves to be pope and war ensues because of it. In turn, lots and lots of death will be coming.

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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