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Title: Was Pope Benedict Fired by the Knights of Malta?
Post by: benjamindees on March 14, 2013, 01:41:09 AM
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/02/11/was-pope-benedict-fired-by-the-knights-of-malta

Thought provoking article.  Perhaps even pertinent to Bitcoin, with the opening of the first Bitcoin hedge fund on Malta (http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/03/08/first-bitcoin-hedge-fund-launches-from-malta/), and the new out-of-sequence Pope hailing from the Jesuit order.


Title: Re: Was Pope Benedict Fired by the Knights of Malta?
Post by: johnniewalker on March 14, 2013, 02:32:51 AM
Interesting fact: Pope Benedict was in Hitler Youth


Title: Re: Was Pope Benedict Fired by the Knights of Malta?
Post by: Nolo on March 14, 2013, 06:19:06 AM
Interesting fact: Pope Benedict was in Hitler Youth

I wasn't a fan of his, but never held that against him.  I don't think it was an optional thing back then. 

Not too sure about this new guy either.  (I don't really get a vote since I'm not Catholic, but just an observation)


Title: Re: Was Pope Benedict Fired by the Knights of Malta?
Post by: herzmeister on March 14, 2013, 04:27:43 PM
This article was published exactly one year before he resigned. Coincidence?

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The Pope Will Die Within a Year?

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Pope Benedict XVI will die within a year, according to a top-secret document published on Friday by the Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano.

Dismissed by the Vatican as "nonsense not to be taken seriously," the anonymous report is dated Dec 30, 2011.

Like a Dan Brown-style thriller, the leaked document reveals a power struggle within the Vatican. The paper predicts the Pope's death by November 2012 and details the measures that are already being taken to prepare his successor.

According to the Italian daily, the letter was delivered in early January to the Vatican secretary of state and the pope's private secretary by Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos of Colombia.

Written in German and labelled "strictly confidential for the Holy Father," the "mordkomplott" begins by describing the conversations that Cardinal Paolo Romeo, the archbishop of Palermo, allegedly had last November with Italian businessmen during a trip to Beijing, China.

"During his talks in China, Cardinal Romeo predicted the death of Pope Benedict XVI within the next 12 months. His remarks were expressed with such resolution that his interlocutors thought, with a sense of alarm, that an attack on the Pope's life was being plotted," the document says.

[...]
http://news.discovery.com/history/pope-benedict-death-120910.htm


Title: Re: Was Pope Benedict Fired by the Knights of Malta?
Post by: Lethn on March 14, 2013, 04:30:57 PM
If the short t.v series Shogun has taught me anything, Jesuit priests can never be trusted :P


Title: Re: Was Pope Benedict Fired by the Knights of Malta?
Post by: whitenight639 on March 15, 2013, 02:41:18 AM
I thought it was the Jewish black pope that did all the Hiring and firing in reality and the knights of Malta are his secret assassins?