While Viganò has claimed that Benedict imposed “canonical sanctions” on McCarrick, Pentin reported a source close to Benedict telling him that, as far as the former pope could remember, “the instruction was essentially that McCarrick should keep a ‘low profile.’ There was ‘no formal decree, just a private request.’"
Pentin, who broke the story of Viganò’s testimonial, had reported in his initial coverage of the memo that a source told him the former pope remembered issuing restrictions of some kind, but could not remember exactly how the matter was handled. His Aug. 31 report elaborated, with a source saying that McCarrick might have been the recipient of a “private request.”
Whether words spoken by a pope are meant to be a "request" of some sort, or have the force of a "canonical sanction" amounts to splitting hairs. When a pope speaks, he speaks on behalf of Peter, the Apostle, appointed by Christ Himself to be the rock of His Church, unless of course, a pope takes on the form of a two-headed snake and speak out of both mouths in order to mislead.
Here, Benedict XVI, had allegedly "forgotten" (equivalent in meaning to "as far as one can remember") what he had precisely told McCarrick regarding a matter with such gravity. Who is he kidding? Is he suffering from Alzheimer's disease? Or is he senile? This blogger believes that Benedict XVI is as mentally sharp now as he was before he resigned as pope.
Is Benedict XVI scared of embarrassing Bergoglio? After all Benedict XVI is living in comfortable surroundings under Bergolio's acquiescence, or perhaps more like an uneasy but tolerated acquiescence, who has the power to make his life miserable, or even end it surreptitiously and murderously (metaphorically speaking, or could even be literally). If an unexpected death were to happen for real, the public would not know for sure if it was a result of natural causes. Autopsies are done perfunctorily at best [3]. After all this is the Vatican, where secrets remain confidential and where the pope can be judge, jury and executioner if he wanted to since nobody is above him except God.
National Catholic Register’s Edward Pentin relied on hearsay in his reporting. According to the article cited [3]:
Pentin reported a source close to Benedict telling him that, as far as the former pope could remember, “the instruction was essentially that McCarrick should keep a ‘low profile.’ There was ‘no formal decree, just a private request.’"
Is it possible that Edward Pentin could be fearing for his life just as Benedict XVI could be fearing for his, and therefore he is walking back ever so gingerly on his earlier report? According to the article cited [4]:
Pentin, who broke the story of Viganò’s testimonial, had reported in his initial coverage of the memo that a source told him the former pope remembered issuing restrictions of some kind, but could not remember exactly how the matter was handled. His Aug. 31 report elaborated, with a source saying that McCarrick might have been the recipient of a “private request.”
All of this imagined fantasy could be a start for a Dan Brown-like fiction. Sometimes fiction is not far from reality. All truths will be known, if not in this life then surely after it. There is nowhere to hide in the presence of God.
Bergoglio must know that man was made in the image of God. In other words, one can look at man and one will have a bit of an idea of God could be like. Since man seeks truth, so does God. Since man can be merciful, so can God. Since man can and will mete out justice, so can and will God. The fact that Lucifer is now Satan is evidence that God's mercy has its limits. This blogger's advice to Bergoglio and his hand-picked supporters and all those who reject God by their gravely sinful actions and their deliberate lies and who are unrepentant: be very, very afraid.
[1] https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/benedict-vigan-francis-and-mccarrick-where-things-stand-on-nuncios-allegations-42199
[2] https://opentabernacle.wordpress.com/2015/08/31/autopsy-on-archbishop-accused-of-sexual-abuse-coordinated-by-the-same-man-who-performed-the-disputed-autopsy-on-two-murdered-swiss-guards/
[3] https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/benedict-vigan-francis-and-mccarrick-where-things-stand-on-nuncios-allegations-42199
[4] Ibid.
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