0 Your letters: Papal resignation

These are comments on a letter regarding the Pope’s resignation by Paul Kokoski published on Feb. 13 page 8. I know my thinking is on track whenever I read Kokoski. His inspiration is immersed in a profound fantasy of impossible miracles, walking on water, wine from water and amazing impossibilities, virgin birth, physiological resurrection to a fictional, unproven heaven. 

His “champion” represents tyranny under the guise of defeating tyranny. His authoritarian rule still demands the prohibition of birth control, which encourages overpopulation, which then ensures greater poverty, and higher unemployment, and prevents the progress of education, keeping the population in a vicious cycle. This is the dark cloud hanging directly over nations like the Philippines and most of Africa. 

This pope may be viewed as an uncompromising defender of the dignity of human life, as he defines human life. However the citizens of freedom must defend human rights against his church’s assault on the rights of all humanity, especially women and children. Let us not forget that fraud, i.e., unproven claims of truth, is a criminal offense and brainwashing children with these fraudulent claims needs to be prosecuted as child abuse.

Brien
Brisbane, Queensland

It might be interesting for all open-minded people who read this to see what St. Malachy predicted about the popes, especially those whom he called the last ones. Detailed information about this can be found on the Internet. Saint Malachy of Ireland died as he himself correctly predicted, on Nov. 2, 1148 at Clairvaux, France. Malachy’s uncannily accurate predictions reputedly were made in 1139 while he was on a pilgrimage to the Vatican, when he was appointed papal legate for Ireland. 

Malachy “saw” — and committed to paper — a series of Latin phrases describing the popes to come. He catalogued each one with an epigrammatic verse, such as “the tears of the sun”. Malachy made his prophecy in 1139. Reportedly it was entrusted to Pope Innocent II in 1140. But for some reason it was lost in the Vatican for 400 years, only to be rediscovered in 1595. Malachy’s prophecy ends with a prediction of the Apocalypse. 

The longest and final sentence reads: “In the extreme persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there will sit Peter the Roman, who will pasture his sheep in many tribulations, and when these things are finished, the city of seven hills will be destroyed, and the terrible judge will judge his people.” Will Pope Benedict XVI, the 265th pope, who has been described as “The Glory of the Olive” be the last pope? Or will there be a final one, namely the one described as “Peter the Roman”? Could he be Cardinal Tarcisio Pietro Bertone, who was born in Romano? We shall see.

Tami Koestomo
Bogor
source : the jakarta post