The Papacy Suspended - A Secret of Colossal Importance for the Church

The papacy suspended above time
will resume - or not - after the deluge.

This article is a collaborated effort between Chriss Rainey and Susan Matthiesen after reading Antonio Socci's book The Secret of Benedict XVI: Is He Still Pope?

Antonio Socci's two epigraphs:
If the Church were to be removed from the world, in a short time the world would end. - John Henry Newman

They call to me from Seir: Watchman, how much longer the night? Watchman, how much longer the night? Isaiah 21:11

(Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary says: Night. Instead of joy, I must announce dreadful things.)

Part One - The Mystical, Economic, and Political Origin of the Drama
And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great upon the earth and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times, it repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart he said: I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man to even beasts, from the creeping thing even to the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noe found grace before the Lord. Genesis 6:5-8

Is the Church ever safe? The answer is no. From the early days it was persecuted by the pagan world with the nod of its leaders who felt threatened by this growing movement of Christians and their own way of life. After the Emperor Constantine’s orders to leave the Christian people alone, the Church prospered but not for long. The enemy ("the diabolical force behind all revolutions that have swept the world since the beginning of the age of apostasy, that is, the Protestant, French, Modernist, Marxist and now Islamic, are all kindred spirits and come from The Lord of This World") became internal disobedience, disloyalty, and rebellion, which, centuries later led to the Protestant Revolt, but the Church moved on still protected by many European leaders - those Catholic monarchs who remained faithful.

By 1717, Freemasonry, a new enemy, had formed and was ready to attack. The Masons work in secret in well coordinated efforts to not only undermine governments with strong moral footing but the actual Roman Catholic Church itself and all she stands for. Freemasonry was responsible for the French Revolution and every uprising in Christendom that followed with the aim of establishing a godless Europe. Lenin was a Mason, sponsored by them to go to Russia and begin the Russian Revolution that eventually claimed the lives of millions of people and the loss of untold numbers of souls. 

And what has this to do with the Catholic Church? When the Church is abandoned and left unprotected, unable to stay alive for the benefit of Christians and society at large, since we are the salt of the earth, the powers of the Communism and Marxism of the globalist elites can and will most certainly seek to complete their mission of destruction. Communists failed to take Spain during the vicious Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. The advocates for Church and King won, led by General Francisco Franco. The Left has never forgotten that defeat and has vilified General Franco ever since. Franco died in 1978; the Left has presently taken control of Spain, so once again the Church is currently under persecution there. The devil never ceases trying to destroy his adversary.

The USA, being the last stronghold of Catholicism that the Church could count on after World War II, was infiltrated by what had been a fledgling body of Communists during the administration of FDR. After WWII, they decided that infiltration of the ranks of the State Department, the FBI, and the CIA as well as Congress was their best tactic for success and there has been no one stopping them so that Marxists have risen to the top where they are nearly untouchable. They work in well coordinated networks to undermine religion and most especially the Catholic Church which refuses to “progress” with the times. 

Socci says that "the weakness of George Bush and the moral force of the pontificate of John Paul II did not come together to accomplish the White's House's effort to transform the Catholic Church into a chaplaincy of the White House as one of the many evangelical Protestant denominations. After that, the going got tough. With the presidency of Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton - in continuity with the presidency of Bill Clinton in the 1990's - a secularist ideology was imposed on a planetary level, masquerading as political correctness, with the support of the planetary hegemony of the USA and of financial globalization." Thus, in 2005, the pontificate of Benedict XVI became an obstacle.

"The idea gathered strength of transforming the Church into the image of one of the (dying) Protestant denominations of Northern Europe, all in support of a German-dominated European Union - along with the Maastricht Treaty (the 1991 Treaty of the European Union) and the Euro - as a pillar of market globalization, all in line with the new Obamian ideology."  (The Secret of Benedict, page 10)

Note that the leaders of both the Church and the most powerful country on earth, that is, the Pope and the President of the United States need to morally align in order for mankind to advance toward salvation. Benedict XVI and Obama were moral adversaries while conversely, Francis and President Trump are moral adversaries.

Therefore with the development of the European Union, which opposes the Church, and a very adversarial USA, on the one hand, and the threat of radical Islamic forces on its other, the Church is between two overwhelming forces for which there is only one solution - prayer and fasting. These - basically the current state of the world with its globalist elites and the ascendance of Islam - are the demons referred to by Christ that require prayer and fasting in order to oppose and eradicate them. No efforts of mere mortals, however well intentioned, can overcome them. Benedict knows and has accepted this. 

Part Two - That Which is Not Understood: Benedict is Pope Forever
The sovereign is the one who decides on the state of exception.... Here, the "state of exception" is to be understood as a general concept of the doctrine of the State, and not as an emergency ordinance or a state of besiegement.... In fact, not every unusual power, not every emergency police measure or ordinance is thus a state of exception: it is rather a competence unlimited in principle, that is the suspension of the entire order of law that is in force. If this situation occurs, it is clear that the State continues to exist, while the law is lost. 

The reading seems rather clear: The pontificate of Benedict XVI became a "pontificate of exception" by virtue of his resignation and at the very moment of his resignation. But why was this expression reported in German as Ausnahmepontifikat?...Aus-nahme: literally, "outside the law." A state of affairs that cannot be regulated "a priori" and thus, if it occurs, required the suspension of the entire juridical order. An "Ausnahmepontifikat" would thus be a pontificate that suspends in some way the ordinary rules of functioning the Petrine office. And, if the analogy holds, this suspension would be justified, or rather imposed [upon the Church], by an emergency that was impossible to address in any other way. - Guido Ferro Canale quoting from Carl Schmitt's Teologia Politica, found on pages 83-85 in Socci's Secret of Benedict XVI.

"As you may be intuiting at this point, the choice to become 'pope emeritus' represents something enormous and contains a SECRET OF COLOSSAL IMPORTANCE for the church (see part III). It is stupefying that everyone in the ecclesiastical and media world has sought to ignore such resounding facts - even to the point of dismissing them.The 'actual status' of Benedict was deliberately ignored, one could almost say 'silenced,' when it should have triggered a huge debate within the Church, which says a lot about the climate surrounding the question of the papacy."

We ask ourselves, what has Benedict XVI done to help this situation of cross purposes? How could abandoning us when we needed him the most have possibly helped anything? Isn’t that what we’ve all asked ourselves for the last 6 years under Bergoglio? Well, perhaps we’ve been looking for the answer in the wrong places and just maybe things are not what we’ve hastily assumed. 

Repent and believe in the Gospel...or we all die.

According to Socci, “Stefano Violi, professor at the Faculty of Theology of Lugano and at the Theological Faculty of Emila Romagna, published a study in the Rivista Teologica di Lugano entitled ‘The Resignation of Benedict XVI:  Between History, Law, and Conscience'."  Socci reminds us that Benedict never mentioned the section of the Code of Canon Law that regulates the resignation of the papacy, curiously enough. Stefano Violi in his study presents a possible reason why this was left out of Benedict’s final words to us. Violi says, “The formula with which Benedict XVI declared his decision, departing from the dictate of the Code, introduces an innovative juridical precedent in the history of the Church, a final solemn act of his magisterium.” Socci quotes Benedict XVI himself who said, “I have taken this step with full awareness of its gravity and even its novelty.” Violi and other writers believe when Benedict said, “my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry", that Benedict never meant to mean he wanted to no longer BE the pope, but only that he would not be involved in the munus itself.

What is munus? It means office, but not only the service generally associated with it but the spectacle and public show of it. The exercise of it. There is far more to being the pope than meets the eye and it is the spiritual side of his duty that Benedict has not abandoned. In essence, he remains the pope. He holds dear and is faithful to all the things a pope should be for us, the representative of Christ on earth. Violi writes, “In the first place he distinguishes between munus and executio muneris, evoking the distinction of Gratian between potestas officii and its executio, between an administrative ministerial executio and a more spiritual executio.

Socci reminds us that the suffering John Paul II endured long after he was not to be seen and carry on a public ministry, is still a part of the Petrine ministry and is not in any way an inferior part of it. Benedict's is a “different kind of resignation” than we may have thought and it explains perhaps the reason why Benedict continues to wear the robes and symbols of his office. It is difficult for many great men to get off the stage when they should. Few have the choice, being limited generally to term limits or retirement requirements, but the choice of Benedict to do so from an office he holds for life, took deep reflection and a bold choice because it meant walking into a new and different life, for which there was no precedence. 

"Benedict's supreme act of self denial that constitutes in reality the supreme act of power has embodied the highest form of power in the Church, following the example of the One who, holding all power in his hands, laid aside his garments, not thereby relinquishing his office, but rather carrying it to fulfillment in the service of men, that is, for our salvation." (Socci, page 83)

Archbishop Georg Ganswein, the personal secretary of Benedict, in an address given on May 21, 2016, which has not been refuted by Benedict, made several things clear. He said this situation that the Church is in is “an epoch without precedent in the history of the Church.” Ganswein continued, “As in the time of Peter, so also today, the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church continues to have one legitimate pope. And yet for the last three years, we are living with two living successors of Peter among us.” And this is the thing pointed out by Ganswein to which we must pay close attention: “Many people even today continue to see this new situation as a kind of God-willed state of exception.” 

Ganswein also said, “Since February, 2013, the papal ministry is therefore no longer what it was before. It is and remains the foundation of the Catholic Church; and yet it is a foundation that Benedict XVI has profoundly and permanently transformed during his pontificate of exception. Socci says regarding these statements, “In effect, what Ganswein goes on to affirm - even interpreting the lightning that struck the cupola of St. Peter’s Basilica on February 11, 2013, as a ‘dramatic’ sign - demonstrates that we are at a historical turning point framed by the (literal) conflict between the Salt of the Earth party (which supported Ratzinger in the conclave of 2005) and the St. Gallen Group (which instead supported Bergoglio).” Would this be the massive geopolitical and cultural conflict between good and evil and of those who lead humanity in one of the two directions...towards God or Satan, to Heaven or Hell? Repent and believe in the Gospel or continue down the  wide path to destruction?

Part Three - Fatima and the Last Pope
I saw the Holy Father in a very large house, kneeling before a table, holding his face in his hands, in tears. Outside of the house there were many people. Some were throwing stones, others were swearing and using much bad language...There were many streets, many footpaths and fields full of people who are weeping from hunger and who have nothing to eat.. And the Holy Father in a church in prayer before the Immaculate Heart of Mary. And many people with him. - Saint Jacinta Marto (the youngest of the three children of Fatima)

"The Queen of Prophets enters into the history of the 20th century" in 1917 at Fatima, a remote village in Portugal, "asking for the help of three children - nothing less - in order to save humanity. In order to obtain the conversion of sinners, that is, to save the world, she asks the three children for their prayers and sufferings in order to obtain the conversion of sinners. Thus, the little and simple save the world unbeknownst to the newspapers, the intellectuals and the chanceries... The Blessed Mother's words highlight the immense power of every Christian."  (Antonio Socci, The Secret of Benedict XVI, page 144)

The Blessed Mother told the children that "mankind must not offend God any more, Our Lord, who is already so offended". When questioned about these words of the Blessed Mother by Father Jose de Lacerda, Jacinta answered: "if people do not amend (their lives), the world will end." That was in 1917. Yesterday, in 2020, over 100 years later, we saw the Super Bowl halftime show of dancing crotches, women's naked rear ends flashing the screen, stripper pole dancing innuendos and then the Islamic tongue wag, the jihad battle cry ululation. It's definitely looking like there is no advancement of man in the area of repentance.

Fatima also links the fate of the Church and mankind to the pope and the papacy, that is, Jacinta's vision (stated above) of a future pope makes us think of Benedict XVI in the Vatican silently interceding for the Church and the world, debating with God over our fate, negotiating what's to be done.

Today we are in the age of apostasy, but before the man of iniquity can reign, that which restrains him, that is, the Roman Catholic Church, must first be removed. "For as long as the Church is strong and powerful, for long as it is a pillar of strength" Satan cannot "appear with that power with which he seeks to conquer." Only when the Church ceases to be strong will Satan gain the power to tread within the Church herself. That time is now.

Therefore there lives a dramatic conflict between Christ and the world, the Church and the world, and between faith and non-faith. When the Son of man comes will he find any faith on earth? It seems that if Christ returned this very day he would hardly find any faith on earth. If we are approaching the end we shall never know but we need to be prepared. We need to repent and believe in the Gospel for every moral code has been broken, every Sacrament has been besmirched as man laughs with brazen insolence, blowing his evil breath into God's face - as New York legislators did, like a scene from Hell, when cheering for lethal injections for full term babies in the womb and pulling them out in pieces. Globalist elite Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who signed the bill, called it a "historic victory for our progressive values" and ordered the One World Trade Center to be lit in pink to mark the occasion." You see, everyone must participate in man's culture of death.

Man has changed himself into the wicked image of Satan with transgender ideology, same sex "marriage", abortion, and euthanasia. The Church herself is filled with the filth of homosexual clergy, up to the highest level, even to the Vatican, who have committed grave sins against the young and they have been extremely poor stewards of our money. Currently the USCCB is being sued for fraud. Combined with the entertainment business, the mass media and the political arena of the Left, man thinks more of how to commit evil than of trying to repent and believe in the Gospel. Man goes the way of Satan, loving evil, hating God.

Benedict XVI's agony is like Christ's.

So what is to be done to stop God from destroying the earth and everything in it? He did it once yet today the evil state of mankind has returned to what it was in the days of Noah, deserving of God's wrath. The Ark is sinking, and sinking rapidly. Where is Noah?

He's here in the form of Benedict XVI, for when the time of the great deception and tribulation comes (Is that now?), God will not fail to grant the light of discernment to him whom He has placed at the head of the Church. That person, that pope, is Pope Benedict XVI who, at the command of God, has placed the papacy outside of time and space to wrestle with God about the future of the world.

While Divine Providence placed a man of colossal strength in the form of President Donald Trump, figuratively with his finger in the dike to hold back the massive flood of evil that will rush in if he is removed, God has simultaneously placed another man of colossal strength - massive spiritual strength - as the head of the Church, Pope Benedict XVI, to hold back God's wrath against man. (See how evil rushed in when Benedict stepped aside...and note that he stepped ASIDE, not down.)

The Papacy as it has always been known is suspended in time for the moment while colossal decisions are being made for the future - or not - of the world. Benedict was called by God to have The Big Talk which would take all his remaining attention, sweating blood as Christ sweated blood in the Garden of Gethsemane. Therefore with the power given to him as pope, Benedict suspended the papacy above time and space - for the moment. It may or may not resume as normal. That depends on where he and God are in their negotiations. 

What will the two of them decide? Where are we now in the timeline of man's existence? Will God shut the door of the Ark (Gen 7:22) whereby time shall be no longer? Will He decide to let the Ark, and all of us in it, sink? He - God - put tar on the outside of the Ark, while Noah put tar on the inside so that the door was sealed and would not leak. The Ark would not sink. It did not sink. Note that the sealing of the door took CO-OPERATION between God and man. We have to co-operate with God (repent of our sins and live holy lives according to the Gospel) in order for God to continue giving life to the world and all in it.

The question is: If God decides to let the world continue, will we co-operate? Will the hierarchy of the Catholic Church co-operate? Will they repent of their misdeeds? Will a future pope of the Catholic Church once again lead the way of salvation for mankind?

Or will we refuse to co-operate whereby Christ will find no faith on earth? If that is our decision then God will shut the door from the outside adding no tar, and let the Ark fill with water and sink. "And all things wherein there is a breath of life on earth, died" (Gen 7:22). Then as, Apocalypse 10:6 states: Time shall be no longer.

Finally, there is the conundrum of Petrus Romanus. Who is Petrus Romanus? Is he Bergoglio or a future pope of the Church? Petrus Romanus, the last of the popes listed in The Prophecies of Saint Malachy, is described as follows: In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Catholic Church there will reign Peter the Roman, who will feed his flock among many tribulations; after which the seven-hilled city will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people."

Although Antonio Socci provides evidence that Petrus Romanus might be Jorge Maria Bergoglio, it seems to many that this is not the case since Bergoglio himself is persecuting the Church. He isn't feeding the flock and is certainly leading the Church into tribulations he himself has made.

It seems more to the point to compare what Bergoglio has said and done with what Soloviev's Antichrist says about himself: Christ as a moralist divided men into the good and the bad alike. I shall be the true representative of God who makes His sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the just and the unjust. Christ brought a sword, I shall bring peace. He threatened the earth with the dreadful Last Judgement. But I shall be the last judge, and my judgment shall be one of mercy as well as justice.

Peter the Roman will FEED the flock. Bergoglio is not feeding us. So you decide who Petrus Romanus is - if he's Bergoglio, or a pope of the future when once again the papacy is restored to normal, that is, If it will be. After all, it depends not only on Benedict XVI, but on YOU as well. On all of us, each and every person, therefore we need to AMEND OUR LIFE and REPENT and BELIEVE IN THE GOSPEL because, as it is now, the Church is hanging in the balance.