Andrea Cionci: Is Bergoglio's PR Campaign Atrophying?
Cionci discusses Bergoglio's alleged friendship with the last Pope
The journalist Andrea Cionci has asked me to publish another of his articles here in English, regarding a recent book interview on Bergoglio’s alleged friendship with Ratzinger.
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Lastest book of propaganda on Bergoglios's “friendship” with Ratzinger:
Bergoglio must evidently be in great difficulty if he reaches the point of having a book published about his "deep and dear friendship" with the real Pope Benedict XVI.
Moreover, this task has been entrusted to an individual who was already the protagonist of a gaffe of apocalyptic proportions, Spanish Vaticanist Javier Martinez Brocal.
Do you remember that photo of Francis taken exactly when he was coming out of his friends' record store at the Pantheon? It literally went around the world with the associated rhetoric: "How good is Pope Francis; he is like so easy going; he’s like, just like an ordinary citizen; etc, etc,...”
Vatican News wrote that "Brocal, who just happened to be randomly in the area, captured the Pope's exit with the gift bag under his arm and spread the photo on social media, where it went viral in just under thirty minutes."
Now, as we already reported at the time, Brocal, the photographer-vaticanist-biographer-documentarist of "Pope Francis", according to Vatican News, just happened to be there randomly.
Since Brocal and Bergoglio were insisting in the Italian national newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano with the fiction of randomness, we asked a mathematician to calculate the possibility that one of the 200 Vaticanists accredited to the Vatican press room could randomly meet Francis in Rome within half an hour, out of 8 working hours of the store, finding himself within a distance of 10 meters in such a useful position to take such a photograph of him.
The probability that the event could be random was 0.000000062%.
Here's how lately the conference of Italian Bishop’s (CEI’s) national newspaper Avvenire, visibly applying a base level NLP, unveils and characterizes in its communiqué on Brocal's forthcoming book-interview the modest attempt at subliminal insistence on the "predecessor-successor" concept as the following:
"A Benedict XVI with unpublished aspects and recounted more than a year after his death by his direct successor on the Chair of Peter: Pope Francis. This is what will emerge from the forthcoming Spanish-language book El Sucesor: Mis recuerdos de Benedicto XVI (“The Successor: My Memories of Benedict XVI”). [...] The merit of this book according to what already comes out from the anticipations released today by the media is that it recounts the almost ten years of cohabitation in the small enclosure of the Leonine City in the Vatican (2013-2022) of Pope Francis and his predecessor as Bishop of Rome Benedict XVI (1927-2022). Francis’ experience of himself through the renunciation of the petrine ministry by Ratzinger and the years of his predecessors’ emeritus papacy will emerge through this unprecedented account.”
The trivial note of language is, "Everything was all right, the two Popes were good friends, but please keep in mind that Francis is Benedict's legitimate successor," just to try to inculcate in your mind at all costs the notion of a valid Petrine succession, something we declare as untrue since, as we have recently formally reported to the Secretary of State, the Gendarmerie and the Swiss Guard, HERE Benedict XVI never abdicated, and his Declaratio was artfully manipulated in translations to make it look like an abdication.
Speaking of how Francis would have experienced Benedict's resignation, we can show you in this clip what happened when Pope Ratzinger greeted the cardinals on 28 February 2013 HERE
At minute 8:36 Bergoglio looks into the camera, realizes that he is being filmed, and immediately brings his hand over his heart, a very typical Masonic gesture, the exact same gesture which he will replicate in September 2023 at Italian President Napolitano's funeral, carefully omitting to make the sign of the cross.
But the climax has been reached in Bergoglio's own words, "Benedict and I had a very deep relationship, I want it to be known and I want it to be known without intermediaries. He was a man who had the courage to resign and, since then, he continued to accompany the Church and its successor." [...] Above all, the book will make it possible to understand the great esteem and deep affection that Bergoglio has always had for the theologian Pope. The volume will also make it possible to get to know closely the friendship between Bergoglio and Ratzinger when both were merely cardinals during the long pontificate of John Paul II: one of them archbishop of Buenos Aires and the other one prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (the former Holy Office). And we still read in the breathless expectancy provided to the media the witness and affection and esteem by Bergoglio for Joseph Ratzinger.
Well, are we really sure that there was this friendship when they were both cardinals?
As we read in the authorized Biographie (2015) of Cardinal Danneels, a member of the Sankt Gallen Mafia, when talking about the 2013 conclave, he states: "Bergoglio's attitude earned the trust of many of the participants in the St. Gallen Group, including Danneels. [...] In the end Cardinal Ratzinger was the one who was chosen by the conclave as an almost obvious successor to the Polish Pope, although during the pre-conclave, Jesuit Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was a realistic alternative."
And here is what Archbishop Gaenswein said, in the famous 2016 "expanded ministry" speech:
"Benedict XVI was elected after only four ballots following a dramatic struggle between the so-called "Salt of the Earth Party" around Cardinals López Trujíllo, Ruini, Herranz, Rouco Varela, or Medina and the so-called "St. Gallen Group" around Cardinals Danneels, Martini, Silvestrini, or Murphy-O'Connor; a group that recently Cardinal Danneels himself in Brussels amusedly referred to as "a kind of mafia-club."
Perfect: so Gaenswein, quoting Danneels, knew for sure that Bergoglio was the candidate chosen by the St. Gallen group. Here is how he continues: "The election was certainly the outcome also of a clash, the key to which Ratzinger himself had almost provided as cardinal dean, in the historic homily of 18 April 2005 in St. Peter's; and precisely he opposed to a dictatorship of relativism that recognizes nothing as definitive and that leaves as the ultimate measure only one's own self and their cravings', another measure, as to say 'the Son of God and true man' as 'the measure of true humanism.'"
Then, Gaenswein tells us in 2016, that the party of cardinals pushing Bergoglio, the Mafia of St. Gallen, antagonistic to Ratzinger, was that of the Dictatorship of Relativism.
Considering that Pope Benedict has dedicated his whole life to fighting relativism, how could anyone think he was friends with the most dedicated member of the opposite party?
Maybe those same people who enjoyed the unintentionally comic-fantasy movie The Two Popes (Netflix, 2019) that offers the version for which Pope Ratzinger want to abdicate in order to leave the Petrine throne to Bergoglio, can believe it.
But now let us recall a few pages of this alleged "deep friendship."
From 2017 a poisonous dart by Bergoglio on Pope Benedict that Libero sharply noted: a harsh homily where the Antipope explicitly declared, "Let us pray for the pastors, for our pastors: for the pastors, for the bishops, for the Pope; so that theirs may be a life without compromise, a life on the road, and a life where they do not believe themselves to be at the center of history and so they learn to leave." Benedict was made the subject of such a heavy allusion because he had just praised Cardinal Sarah, saying that with him the liturgy was in good hands.
Absolutely to be remembered when the Argentine had Benedict XVI's favorite vineyard in Castel Gandolfo uprooted on 15 January 2020. Coldiretti had given it to him, because after being elected the German Pope presented himself as a "humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord." Immediately after the news of the publication of the inconvenient book signed with Cardinal Sarah that blocked Bergoglio's leaps forward towards the abolition of ecclesiastical celibacy, nobody knew why and how, Pope Ratzinger's vineyard was brutally uprooted without giving plausible reasons. Franca Giansoldati wrote for the Italian national newspaper Il Messaggero: "There are those who speculate that that space will be used to make way for a small road to be built soon. In fact, the decision was made by the new leadership of the pontifical villas that gave the order to tear down one of the most symbolic places of the previous pontificate. Most probably the works were started without taking into account that it was not a common vineyard, a piece of countryside like any other, but emblematically represented the Church of Benedict XVI."
A year later, as we read in the Italian national newspaper Il Mattino Bergoglio had his own vineyard replanted in the same place.
Pope Benedict for his part, as we have shown, "loved his enemy and prayed for his persecutor" so much so that he always made totally neutral and/or amphibological judgments toward the Antipope such as the one that follows: "In Argentina he used to say very nonchalantly: “this is done and this is not done"; "He is a very direct person with his fellow human beings" and other comments that always stopped just shortly before an unambiguity, always avoiding clear positive assessments.
So much so that he amphibologically concluded his posthumous What is Christianity? by thanking "Pope Francis because he shows us that the light of the Lord has not faded." Of course, on a second reading we know that only through darkness we are able to appreciate the light. Yet, everyone pretends not to understand.
A nice cold shower, the Vicar of Christ gave it to the Antipope when he refused to review the "little books" on his theology, with the scandal that cost Monsignor Dario Viganò his job. However, even the first part of the letter that the monsignor artfully published was full of subtle irony in "broad mental reservation".
Bergoglio made his most recent snubs during the funeral of the "wise grandfather." This was the saccharine and irreverent epinome with which he painted him, yet, Pope Benedict wittily noted previously that he was only ten years older than his "grandson.”
Bergoglio’s denial of the flags flying at half-mast in the Vatican, the homily copied verbatim from Benedict's own texts without even quoting him, the haste to leave, the failure to even celebrate the funeral Mass; All disrespectful and intentional lapses that did not escape even the MSM legacy media.
The journalistic blog Silere non possum notes: "In the square, during the funeral many people complained about "a treatment that would not be reserved even for one's worst enemy." Pope Francis has unveiled in these hours what he really thinks about the "Pope Emeritus" and the "Papacy Emeritus." Two of his collaborators yesterday had to do a "tug-of-war" to convince him not to leave the coffin in the Square and leave before it was even taken to the grottoes for burial. The Pope would not hear of it. The dictate, ever since it started being clear that Holy Father Emeritus Benedict XVI would leave us, was "a funeral like that of the cardinals. Nothing more." Then, the negotiations began."
Finally, since 4 January 2023, Archbishop Gaenswein's glacial comment on Traditionis custodes that allegedly eliminated Summorum Pontificum, the actual motu proprio according to which Pope Benedict liberalized the Latin Mass in 2007. "I think it broke his heart."
In short terms: you've now got an idea about the friendship Bergoglio could have with the real Pope even as the latter fulfilled Christ's most difficult commandment, "love your enemy and pray for your persecutor," so much so that he concluded the interview for Ein Leben by saying, "The personal friendship with Pope Francis has not only remained but has been growing over time." "Personal" friendship because it was only one-way and certainly not reciprocated.
Although the majority will also buy into this umpteenth propaganda operation, there are definitely Catholics who are waking up, slowly but surely.
Just take a look at the series of furious comments on the Ratzinger Foundation's Facebook page under the post introducing the book, on the cover of which, as many note, there is only the image of a portly and satisfied Bergoglio.
In short, in the words of the reading from Isaiah chosen by the Pope for his funeral, "Is it not yet a very little while ‘till Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest? In that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness."