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The Peace of God to all that belong to the light,
Dear Readers,
Today February 11th 2013 the Catholic church was shaken by a tremendous wave of speculations that were triggered with the resignation of H.H. Benedict
XVI, the first Pope to abandon still alive the throne of St Peter in six centuries.
Here are some of the notes of press containg the speech of the resignation, announced to be effective for February 28th 2013 at 20:00 hrs.
Pls read:
news.yahoo.com...
Of course this is a pretty unusual situation since it is not clear how the Universal church in general and his successor in particular will handle an
ExPope. Also there is real concerns about the Papal succession, that in this case must take place in only three weeks.
Here some of the reactions about this event:
news.yahoo.com...
www.cbc.ca...
live.wsj.com...#!A415FE2D-10E9-45B5-B16B-E270EFD6CA35
Now, today the German Cancellor and the President of the European comission as well as the President of the European council recognized publicaly the
huge contribution of this Pope to the preservation of the world peace,
Pls read:
english.ruvr.ru...
www.cbc.ca...
World Peace was precisely the central message that was released to the world on his New year speech.
Pls read:
www.vatican.va...
www.usccb.org...
This is consistent with the ideas of a Pope that in several occasions was characterized by his strong interest in to deffend the world peace, many of
his personal quotes were about this topic.
Pls read:
www.presentationministries.com...
www.courageouspriest.com...
There were various the occasions in which Benedict XVI assumed great personal risk to spread this message of peace to regions of the world that are
been chastised with war for decades.
Pls read:
articles.washingtonpost.com...
In particular it is remembered the worst crisis of his pontificate, just only at 17months to be in the office, when affronted the fierce reaction of
diverse islam leaders for his remarks critizising the agitation of the violence promoted by fundamentalist islam groups.
www.nytimes.com...
He also assumed a couragous and firm condemnatory attitude of the arousal of the criminality in Mexico, the increase of the violence and corruption
carried out by the narcotrafficant maffias in that country, that is the second more populated Catholic nation of the world.
www.bbc.co.uk...
www.theatlanticwire.com...
He showed the same very firm position condemning the negative consequences of the unregulated capitalism in the world economy:
www.bbc.co.uk...
This marked a consistent discourse in his social and economic points of view since the very early times of his pontificate, against the extremisms on
economic models:
www.nytimes.com...
Another of his personal contributions, during his seven year rule over the church, was the defense of an Ecological position that he adopted with
important changes on the vatican.
Pls check:
www.huffingtonpost.com...
Of course, His Holiness Benedict XVI was, as it has happened with all his predecessors, decisively opposed to abortion, that he has described as one
of the worst forms of homicide that exists.
Pls read:
www.nbcnews.com...
The arrival of a new Pope in this 2013 is a fact was predicted to happen in my thread of 2009, about the situation of the world for this epoch of
transition in between the end of 2012 and the beginning of this year.
Pls read:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Thanks for your attention,
your friend,
The Angel of Lightness
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