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The journalist Andrea Cionci has requested I republish a new article of his. Just as the last couple of times, the English translation below was supplied by him.
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Bergoglio's "election": Ratzinger’s seals were tampered with. Why?
On Bergoglio's pseudo-election, which is null and void, let us remember, since it was convened after the Pope had not duly abdicated, new oddities emerge again and again.
A reader sent us an October 2013 article published in Il Secolo XIX .
Vaticanist Francesco Peloso pointed out a very strange fact reported in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis of April May 2013 (which you can download yourself HERE ).
In the official Vatican gazette, you can find the record of the procedure according to which, as of February 28, 2013, the apostolic apartment, the "house" of Pope Benedict, was closed and sealed by the then Secretary of State, Card. Bertone. HERE you can see the video of the whole procedure.
On March 13, 2013, around 7:06 p.m. an antipope was "elected" Card. Bergoglio, who, after having chosen the name Francis, was supposed to break the seals of the apostolic apartment on March 14, late in the afternoon, to take possession of it, as then happened, around 6:30 p.m. HERE you can watch the video.
The report contained in the AAS says that on the morning of March 14, at 12:45 p.m., Archbishop Pier Luigi Celata, Vice Camerlengo, together with the Vice Commander of the Pontifical Swiss Guard, another officer and other clergymen went, by order of Camerlengo Bertone, to remove the seals previously affixed to the entrances to the Papal Apartment, with the exception of the Apartment's Access Door and the door giving access to the "noble" elevator.
When they arrive at the large iron and glass door, they see the seal is intact, so they break it and enter. They then move on to the II Loggia, and there there is a surprise: SIX OUT OF SEVEN SEALS HAVE ALREADY BEEN BROKEN. These are those affixed to the Door of Access to the Holy Father's private elevator from the spiral staircase from the antechamber in the II Loggia; to the Gray Wooden Door that accesses from the St. Ambrose Hall to the Secretaries' lounges; to the Large Wooden Door facing east in the St. Ambrose Hall; to the Door that accesses from the Clementine Hall to the Private Library; to the Small Door that accesses from the Clementine Hall to the corridor behind the "noble" elevator; and finally the one to the Access to the Holy Father's private elevator from the Sixtus V Courtyard.
Only "the seventh seal" remained intact (just a case?), the one affixed to the Upper Gate giving access to the spiral staircase in the II Loggia. In this regard, the other officer of the Swiss Guard certifies "that in his tour of inspection carried out at 4:30 p.m. yesterday, March 13, c.m., all the entrances previously sealed by the Apostolic Chamber had not been removed and DID NOT HAVE ANY TAMPERING"
After the Secolo XIX article, as usual, the seraphic Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, came to throw water on the fire, as reported by the blog Church and Post-Council HERE and pointed out that the same report explained what happened and how Pope Benedict's Apartment had remained intact.
In fact, we read from the report that the Vice Chamberlain had a note sent to the Apostolic Chamber about these broken seals to the II loggia and received as a response that the Substitute of the Secretariat of State had ordered, at 8 p.m., immediately after Bergoglio's election, that all the rooms in the Vatican Apostolic Palace reserved for the Conclave would be reopened.
BUT WHY?
Isn't it a little strange that there was such a state of confusion? Does the Substitute have those loggias reopened WITHOUT THE VICECAMERLENGO AND THE SWISS GUARD KNOWING ANYTHING about it, so much as to send a note about the "tampering"?
One must infer that, immediately after Bergoglio's election, the "conclavists," after breaking the seals of the II loggia, could go around the rooms. But for what need? To celebrate, to look for something? Perhaps a symbolic gesture, since St. Francis was considered by St. Bonaventure to be "the angel of the sixth seal" announced in Revelation? As Peter Seewald explains in "Ein Leben," "Until that day no one had ever dared to call himself Francis, harking back to the saint of Assisi. Since the Middle Ages, St. Francis had been venerated as the 'second Christ'."
One thing is certain: Bergoglio has never lived in the apostolic apartment on the 3rd floor, but he sometimes uses the rooms of the II loggia to receive heads of state and diplomats. The excuse, of course, is always the pauperistic one, of being with others, of rejecting traditional luxuries and similia.
Remarkable how in "Last Conversations" (2016), Benedict XVI gives Peter Seewald an amphibological answer, in broad mental restriction HERE, that could fit for both his old cardinal's apartment, in P.za della Città Leonina, and the apostolic apartment:
D. Why have you never left your previous residence?
R. This was not intentional. I could not leave it right away because the move took place in a hurry. I brought only books here, and almost nothing else. Everything was left there, even a large part of the books themselves. At one point I said it had to be emptied, but where would we take all those things? They replied: in the meantime leave them where they are.
D. So it was not a possible place to return there just in case?
R. No. I was perfectly aware that I would never go back there. Even in the case of resignation it was clear that I could not live in a normal apartment, it would not be appropriate.
But that is not enough. Another reader points out to us, in the March 2013 Acta, a change made by Pope Benedict at the last moment, on February 18, a few days before he entered the impeded see.
We read, "In examining the texts for the celebrations of the beginning of the pontificate and of the installation on the Chair of Rome in St. John Lateran, one notices a peculiarity common to both. In both the one and the other, the typical rites of the two celebrations are placed within the Holy Mass.
Considering some changes made in recent years to papal celebrations, with the intention of removing from the interior of the Mass rites that are not strictly proper to it (e.g. Rite of Resurrexit on Easter Sunday, Imposition of the pallium to Metropolitans, Canonizations), it is considered appropriate to make a change also to the current structure of the two mentioned celebrations, so that the typical rites for the beginning of the pontificate and for the installation on the Roman Chair will be placed BEFORE AND OUTSIDE the Mass."
"Inevitable to think," our reader deduces, "that Pope Benedict had changed the ritual because the invalid conclave would not have elected a true pope, and so the office would not have had an official sacralization because it was officiated OUT of the Holy Mass.
An entirely plausible thought, given what has transpired so far.
Curious also how, later in the same document, Pope Benedict had reintroduced "the act of obedience of all the Cardinals to the new Pontiff in the context of the celebration of the beginning of the Petrine ministry as well as inside the Sistine Chapel at the conclusion of the Conclave. In this way, this act, which is so significant, will once again become visible for the whole Church and the world, and the opportunity will be given to all Cardinals - even non-electors - to perform it."
A provision for the next real pope: the real cardinals are to make solemn public pledges of allegiance to the next - real - Pontiff, successor to Benedict XVI.
And no jokes this time.
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