UNITED STATES
Christian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
The Conclave rescue effort to find a new Captain to save Peter’s sinking Barque has already failed. Women and children were not first. Instead, women’s equality and child protection have already, in effect, been thrown over the side. Aging Vatican Captain Ratzinger had already shrewdly jumped ship with Gorgeous Georg to manipulate the Conclave by remote control.
Dominant aging Vatican Cardinals, led by Cardinal Sodano and his new ally (apparently out of desperation), Cardinal Bertone, have been left on board to steer. These students of Machiavelli have focused almost solely on helping some Cardinals continue to avoid prosecution, among other ways, by closely guarding the secret dossier on Vatican scandals. These over-the-hill successors to petty Italian princes seem unable to see, it appears, that the Vatican barque is almost mastless and taking on water. This Vatican clique just refuses to change its secret course despite rumors that more Vatileaks from many more Vatican moles are in transit. While the best Clown Prince may have just been elected to run Italy, the unintended Italian Clown Princes seem to be controlling the Conclave.
Of course, Cardinal Sodano had a half century earlier seen Cardinal Ottaviani, his predecessor as Vatican clique leader, play this game very succesfully at the Second Vatican Council where his opponent was a brave anti-Nazi veteran, Cardinal Frings, and his smart and ambitious aide, Joseph Ratzinger. At Vatican II, almost all Cardinals and Bishops wanted power sharing with the Vatican, a married priest option and more family planning choices for couples, while they frequently criticized the Vatican clique, the Curia. The Curia patiently marked time and undid or undercut the Council’s reform initiatives by controlling the Popes, in some cases beginning even before the Vatican II prelates returned home. Thereafter, the ambitious Ratzinger switched from the losing side and developed Vatican II amnesia, as he climbed ruthlessly and rapidly up the hierarchical ladder. He also played this game before.
Watching the Conclave in light of the Vatican clique’s manipulation of the Second Vatican Council’s unimplemented reform initiatives, one must immediately think of the quote of the famous Italian American “ballplayer/philosopher”, Yogi Berra, “It is ‘deja vu’ all over again”! By “faking” his own ecclesiastical “death”, the Shadow Pope, Ratzinger, appears well on his way masterfully to installing a younger clone to replace him in the drive to create a smaller priest cult funded worldwide by overly trusting, insufficiently informed and politically conservative Catholics led by their plutocratic cheerleaders.
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