On February 15, 2013, the Order will celebrate the 900th anniversary of the issuance of Pie postulatio voluntatis, the papal bull (or bulla sacra) through which Pope Paschal II officially granted to the Hospital of Saint John [also known as the Hospital of Jerusalem [2]] certain protections, rights, and privileges in perpetuity. Pie postulatio voluntatis is Pope Paschal II’s response to a petition submitted by Blessed Gerard, the Order’s founder and Master of the Hospital. Gerard’s request demonstrates how much he had accomplished in the first decades of the Hospital.
The members of Gerard’s fraternity were a monastic community whose men took the evangelical vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. At the time of Gerard’s petition, the Hospital had already amassed substantial assets quæ ad sustentandas peregrinorum et pauperum necessitates (“that are needed for sustaining pilgrims and the poor”). Ever the practical man, Blessed Gerard wanted to protect those assets as well as the Hospital’s autonomy.
The rights granted to the Hospital by the papal bull of February 15, 1113, certainly have historical significance. They gave the Hospital autonomy, the foundation of the independence and sovereignty that the Order enjoys to this day. But beyond the bull’s historical significance, its language continues to resonate today.
On January 24, 2017, the language in Pope Paschal II's papal bull resonates no more, it has been vitiated, and silenced, after the removal of Matthew Festing, [3] the legitimate Grand Master of the Order of Malta, by what this blogger believes to be a forced resignation, thanks to Bergolio and his all too fallible actions as a successor to Pope Paschal II almost 904 years later, and after Bergolio appointed himself as the ultimate leader of the Order of Malta to replace Grand Master Matthew Festing, notwithstanding the fact that Bergolio is planning on naming a pontifical delegate to rule over the Order of Malta in his stead.
With the removal of Matthew Festing as the Grand Master of the Order of Malta, Bergolio has in effect abolished the sovereignty granted by the papal bull of February 15, 1113, to the Hospital of Jerusalem, the medieval predecessor to the Order of Malta, and by affiliation, the sovereignty of the present day Order of Malta has been abolished as well.
The abolition of the Order of Malta's sovereignty by Bergolio is without precedent and without authority whatsoever.
Disregarding any reference to whatever sleazy prearrangement that had taken place prior to the 2013 papal conclave [4] that elevated Bergolio to the papacy, the abolition of the Order of Malta's sovereignty alone, in this blogger's opinion, clearly disqualifies Bergolio to be pope.
Should Bergolio maintain that the sovereignty granted to the Hospital of Jerusalem by the papal bull of February 15, 1113, did not transfer to a subsequent related "new entity" called the Order of Malta, then Bergolio would have no jurisdiction whatsoever over the Order of Malta since the Order of Malta, this "new entity" (in Bergolio's deluded mind, the Vatican's territory and puppet) never submitted itself to any Vatican official asking for the Vatican's oversight and protection, and any association between the Order and the Vatican would have been by mutual consent and not by any papal edict, and anything "given" to the Order by the Vatican for its use could arguably be deemed as a gift, and should it not be deemed a gift, then it would be a loan, neither of which establishes jurisdiction by the Vatican over the Order.
[1] http://www.orderofmaltausawestern.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=121:the-900th-anniversary-of-pie-postulatio-voluntatis&catid=38&Itemid=106
[2] Stephen Dafoe, An Illustrated History of the Knights Hospitaller (Surrey: Ian Allen Publishing, 2010), 17.
[3] https://cruxnow.com/global-church/2017/01/25/head-knights-malta-resigns-amid-spat-pope-francis/
[4] http://canonlawmadeeasy.com/2015/09/10/why-are-some-suggesting-that-francis-election-was-invalid/#forward Bergolio's own words from the article: "'I follow that which the cardinals requested during the general congregations before the conclave. I'm going in that direction. The council of eight cardinals, an external organism, emerged from there. It was requested to reform the curia..... My decisions are the fruit of the meetings before the conclave. I have done nothing alone.'"
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