Benedictus Augustulus
In another day of quite astonishing revelations, we were informed by Archbishop Vigano’ that in 2011 (that is: when Benedict was still Pope), Benedict candidly admitted to Vigano’ that Archbishop Gaenswein prevented him from reading an entire dossier.
The mind boggles at such weakness, incompetence, or outright corruption.
Benedict was in charge in 2011; but apparently, he was just the little coward he is now. He knew that people near to him kept very important information from him and, instead of firing Gaenswein in 3 seconds straight, he did exactly nothing. Romulus “Augustulus” appears like a giant compared to this one.
I do not see any alternative to one of these scenarios:
- Benedict was so incompetent and weak, that he could not bring himself to get rid of an obviously traitorous and scheming subordinate. This is a pathological weakness, a real inability to function as an adult man.
- Benedict lied to Vigano’, stating that he had not received the dossier because he knew that Vigano’ has contacted him to request action; and Benedict wasn’t, and isn’t, a man of action.
- Gaenswein has some terrible secret on Benedict, which allows him to remote-control an obviously quite remote-controllable man.
- Gaenswein and Benedict have some horrible secret together.
The tale of the Benedict “prisoner in the Vatican” is clearly absurd. The man can quite obviously freely communicate with Cardinals and publishing houses ad libitum. There is absolutely nothing that indicates that he be restricted in his communications. He would be able to alert the Cardinal, or whoever else, of any coercion on his person in absolutely no time. Also, a person kept “prisoner” is not allowed to co-authors entire books, which could be harmful to his jailers.
Similarly, kindly refrain from the legends about Benedict’s life being in danger, or the homo mafia wanting to kill him. With a very old, frail man living the other side of the garden, the possibilities for foul play are endless. Still, after almost seven years the man is still alive and kicking. This is quite a disaster as a murder squad.
No, the latest revelation abundantly shows what an astonishingly ineffective man Ratzinger always was, how easily controllable and manipulated he was when he was the Pope.
In my eyes, this puts his famous statements when he was elected in a quite sinister light: the man knew that he was weak, and would flee in front of the wolves; but he also was too weak to refuse the job in the first place.
What a tragedy, and what a failure.
Pray for poor Benedict. There are a lot of people in the Vatican worse than him.
But I doubt that there is another one so pathologically ineffective and weak.
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Posted on January 17, 2020, in Catholicism, Conservative Catholicism, Traditional Catholicism. Bookmark the permalink. 5 Comments.
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Vigano recounts that at one point Benedict pointed to Gaenswein and said, ‘Gestapo’. If the Gestapo was holding me and I was in a crowd of people I’d sure as hell scream ‘Gestapo” at the top of my lungs and have the man arrested. Why would Benedict not free himself from his captor if he had the chance? This story gets more bizarre by the day.
Because he was the year-long lover of Gaenswein?
Because Gaenswein has a lot of stuff on him?
Because it’s easy to say “Gestapo” to lighten your won conscience?
If we want fantasy stories, I can give you as many as you want.
Only, I don’t deal in fantasy stories.
The cowardice of the victim should not exonerate the cruelties or intentions of the jailor. This week Ganswein’s and Bergoglio’s actions are clearly attempts to muzzle Pope Benedict. Their lies ,so quickly disproven by Cardinal Sarah and Ignatius Press, point to a familiarty by both Bergoglio and Ganswein with the techniques of intimidation and coersion both are attributes of jailors.
The cowardice is an obvious fact. The “jailing” is a fantasy.
Out of the four scenarios you presented, my money would be on either 3 or 4.