POPE BENEDICT

The great question

I. The Preliminaries
II. Who is Tychonius?
III. Trent Horn and Kolbe Center
IV. The One Page (not yet done)
 PERSONALLY

For me
- Not really something that I “want”

Solange Hertz
It took divinely constituted ‘authority’ to put Him to death?
Would anything less be expected than for the Church?
An address by Pope Benedict XVI to the Albano pilgrims

Mentioned and quoted by Estefania, but not commented on

“Supreme Pontiff”
• “If Pope Benedict executed his intentional grave deception in order to save the Church from the wolves, what then
of the Faithful? Not a word from Benedict about the apostasy of his “successor” who all the world thinks is pope?
This is the ‘most’ ‘grave’ mortal sin of SCANDAL.”
• ANSWER: Pope Benedict did not “execute intentional grave deception” (see above). As for the claim that he has
been silent about the apostasy of his “successor,” two things may be said. First, to be precise, he has no successor,
as Jorge Mario Bergoglio is an antipope. Second, at key junctures in the history of Bergoglio’s’ maltreatment of the
deposit of Faith, Pope Benedict has intervened with pointed Catholic commentary, providing a timely counter-
ballast to Bergoglio’s obvious heretical directives and doctrines. He refused to endorse a collection of lame books
by the Argentine usurper, he collaborated with Robert Cardinal Sarah on a book affirming celibacy, he has
weighed with select critical interviews that transmit his assessment of the “barque of Peter seeming to capsize” etc.
Above all, His Holiness has never once said, “Francis is the Pope, obey him…” [John Henry: “he refused”]
More importantly, God judges all souls justly and with mercy,
and takes into account the same mysterious interplay of
conditions as objective matter, subjective context, formation of
conscience, and so on—whether or not an antipope sits in
Rome. He did the same in history before Christ came to earth
and does so today for remote aboriginal tribes who have not
heard the gospel. Were previous true Popes like Urban VI
responsible for the damnation of souls because of the non-
binding teachings of anti-popes like Clement VIII?
Strange that so many trads and other conservative Catholics
reserve their most potent venom for His Holiness Pope
Benedict, whose Impeded See (Canon 412) was not only
established in response to being criminally forced out (complete
with death threats, himself for certain and others most likely)
but who continually and with the suffering mentioned in
his Declaratio, safeg
WHO IS TYCHONIUS?
“Ticonius, an African who lived a generation before St Augustine…was not a Catholic; he belonged to
the schismatic Donatist Church, yet he was a great theologian. In his commentary he sees
the Apocalypse above all as a reflection of the mystery of the Church. Ticonius had reached the
conviction that the Church was a bipartite body: on the one hand, he says, she belongs to Christ, but
there is another part of the Church that belongs to the devil. Augustine read this commentary and
profited from it but strongly emphasized that the Church is in Christ’s hands, that she remains His Body,
forming one with Him, sharing in the mediation of grace. He therefore stresses that the Church can
never be separated from Jesus Christ.” —Pope Benedict XVI, on April 22, 2009, at his Wednesday
General Audience devoted to the theology of Giovanni Ambrose Autpert, who lived in the 700s.
Autpert cited Tyconius in his writing. Just one week after this audience, Benedict went to Aquila in
central Italy, about a 2-hour drive from Rome, and left his pallium, the wool stole he wore as a
symbol of his authority as the Bishop of Rome, on the tomb of Pope Celestine V, who had resigned
the papacy in 1294 after only five months as Pope. A little less than four years later, Benedict also
would resign
“Attacks on the Pope and the Church come not only from without, but the sufferings of the Church
come precisely from within the Church, from the sin existing within the Church. This too is
something that we have always known, but today we are seeing it in a really terrifying way: that
the greatest persecution of the Church comes not from her enemies without but arises from sin
within the Church.” —Pope Benedict XVI, May 2010, on his trip to Fatima
POSSIBLE? TWO INTERPRETATIONS?

Yes

Not contradictory
 Benedict XVI has indicated that the theology of Tyconius can assist the Church
in understanding how to expose and ultimately defeat the evil of “false
brethren” who lie hidden within her. Tyconius’ insights overlap in various ways
with the message of Fatima. If we consider Benedict’s comments about Fatima
in light of the Tyconian theology of the end times, we are offered a unique
perspective on the nature of the Church and the antichurch during their final
confrontation.
 Tyconius understands that the great “falling away” of the end times will not be
caused by unfaithful people leaving the Bride of Christ, but rather by the Bride of
Christ pulling away from those within her who are unfaithful. In other words, for
Tyconius, it is not the infidels who will “fall away” but rather the true believers, who
will withdraw from the evil within the Church. A paradoxical reversal indeed.
Tyconius writes: “Before the ‘falling away’ [2 Thess 2:3] happens, everyone is
considered the people of God. When the ‘falling away’ will have happened, then the
third part of the people of God will appear.”[44] Robinson comments: “The saints will
endure and faithfully preach God’s Word, and the false brothers will be unmasked
when they turn and persecute the church: ‘those in league with the devil, although
saying that they are Christians, will fight against the church.’”[45] Robinson thus
concludes: “[t]he persecution finally and completely reveals the identity of the saints
and the false brothers.”[46]
“And I saw three unclean spirits [go forth] from the mouth of the dragon and from the
mouth of the beast and from the mouth of the false prophet.[49] Tyconius remarks: “For
the dragon, that is, the devil; and the beast, the body of the devil; and the false
prophets, that is, the bishops of the body of the devil, are one spirit.” [emphasis
added][50] Furthermore, Tyconius declares, “the throne of the beast is his church,”
[emphasis added][51] on account of the duplicitous bishops that will be under his
sway. Those treacherous bishops will give shape and form to the devil’s body – the
false church – even after the true Church has detached herself from it.
• pope “can” refer to John Paul II “in the first place,” Benedict implies that the vision refers to
another Pope, or at least that it is not limited to John Paul II alone. Further, if what was shown to
the children still involves “the future of the Church,” then the unfolding of the Third Secret is
definitely not over and done with. Rather, the events that the Third Secret points to are “gradually
taking shape and becoming evident.”
• Benedict’s most theologically-charged statement, however, was his comment about the vision
designating a passion of the Church. According to Benedict’s assessment, the revelation to the
three young children of Fatima was primarily about that passion – the coming sufferings of the
Church, which are still to unfold and will be “reflected in the person of the Pope.” And, from where
will the attacks that bring about this passion arise? He attested: “Precisely from within the Church.”
• Alberto Cosmedo Amaral, Bishop of Fatima from 1972-1993, gave a nod in the same
direction – that of apostasy – when he attested at a question-and-answer session at
the Technical University of Vienna in 1984:
• The Secret of Fatima speaks neither of atomic bombs, nor nuclear warheads, nor
Pershing missiles, nor SS-20’s. Its content concerns only our faith. To identify the
Secret with catastrophic announcements or with a nuclear holocaust is to deform
the meaning of the message. The loss of faith of a continent is worse than the
annihilation of a nation; and it is true that faith is continually diminishing in Europe.
[65]
Benedict XVI ascertained the overlap and intersection of the message of Fatima and the theology
of Tyconius and, in doing so, realized his own staggering and monumentous mission – that he was
being called, like Abraham, to set forth in faith, “not knowing where he was to go.”[72] To take the
Church, as Abraham took Isaac, and prepare to offer her as a holocaust.[73] So that “from one man,
himself as good as dead”[74] numerous descendants would one day come forth because of
Benedict’s faith. A step that could only be taken because of a direct and personal call from God. A
step that would make no sense if considered in terms of human calculation or worldly prudence.
But a step that would initiate a new Exodus for the new Israel at the hour of her “final Passover,
when she will follow her Lord in his Death and Resurrection.”
Did Benedict XVI glean from the Third Secret, in accord with the teaching of Tyconius, that in God’s
providential designs the climax of the confrontation between the true Church and the anti-church could
only take place when the valid Successor of Peter permitted the arrival of the “bishop dressed in white”?
That what was shown to the children of Fatima was exactly what Sister Lucia describes – a “mirror image” –
one who appears to be the Holy Father but in fact is only a double? Was Sister Lucia additionally trying to
communicate and highlight this “semblance of a pope” when she said: “[W]e had the impression that it was
the Holy Father”? Did she intend to place the emphasis in that sentence on the word “impression”? – “[W]e
had the impression that it was the Holy Father.” –  Was this because, when the “bishop dressed in white”
would finally appear, the whole world would be under that same “impression”? While, in point of fact, the
bishop dressed in white would only resemble the pope, the way an image seen in a mirror resembles reality
– an imitation . . . an empty reproduction . . . a usurper. If so, did this awareness lead Benedict XVI to set out
in faith, like Abraham, “not knowing where he was going,”[82] handing practical power over the visible
structure of the church, to a “bishop dressed in white,” so as to initiate the “great discessio”?
III. TRENT HORN AND THE KOLBE CENTER

“obliged”?

History: the truth of the Immaculate Conception

St John Henry Newman: a deeper faith

- IN RELATION TO THE ISSUE OF GENDER

Modified: S/he is whom I love and today in renouncing illusion, I desire her/his happiness. I pray that God
give me the Christian strength to bear the pain serenely and that He give her/him all earthly happiness and
the strength to reach the Goal for which we were created. Thus, s/he will always be for me the best and
closest friend who, having known her/him in my life, will have helped me to keep on the right path toward
the Goal.
“…she is whom I loved with a pure Love and today in renouncing it I desire her happiness. I urge you to pray
that God gives me the Christian strength to bear it serenely and that He gives her all earthly happiness and
the strength to reach the Goal for which we were created… Thus, she will always be for me a good friend
who, having known her in the most dangerous years of my life, will have helped me to keep on the right path
toward the Goal.”
 THE PRAYER

He is whom I love and today in renouncing illusion, I desire his happiness. I pray that God give me
the Christian strength to bear the pain serenely and that He give him all earthly happiness and the
strength to reach the Goal for which we were created. Thus, he will always be for me the best and
closest friend who, having known him in my life, will have helped me to keep on the right path
toward the Goal.

Intimacy is intimacy. Sex is sex.

• No “head” to “head” connection in debates etc.

• Have compassion for a certain pain of some.