Our Pope is having serious problems, and definitely needs our prays now. Not just for the missal or mumbled during mass, but for real. He won't last much longer unless he gets the help he needs, the help that can only come from us, the faithful.
Apparently according to sources that are usually extremely accurate.
The Pope has become so isolated and powerless that he spends most of his time alone in his study writing and playing the piano while Rome burns with in-fighting. All Hell, as it were, has broken loose at the Vatican since Benedict appointed a known communist spy to be th Archbishop of Warsaw, who was forced by the Polish people to resign the day after he was installed. Archbishop Wielgus was exposed by documents unearthed at the Poland's National Remembrance Institute as an agent for Poland's Communist Secret Service for decades and as having twice attended its spy school.
Responsibility for the appointment rests directly upon Benedict, who personally had passed over six other candidates to select Wielgus and publicly admitted that he knew Wielgus had serious skeletons in his closet. But there is more to the story. This crisis has had the consequence of exposing to the public deep divisions within the Vatican, which insiders say have left the Pope increasingly isolated and powerless. Add to that the fact that he has no plan and refuses to make controversial decisions, his papacy is already becoming a footnote in papal history. Which would be very sad indeed.
According to the Italian newsmagazine Panorama: Benedict does not have a decisive temperament and must take into account his age. The initiatives that he has taken are meeting with much resistance. For months, Benedict appeared isolated, closed up in his study polishing his speeches, writing his book Jesus of Nazareth, to be published in April, or playing the piano.
The Vatican also became a laughing stock in all Italy when Tarcisio Bertone, Benedict's new Secretary of State since September 2006, announced that the Vatican could field a soccer team in Italy's first division! It seems that the Church Curia's attention these days is more on sports than religion, while Rome burns. The Pope, who was JPII's "enforcer," has displayed an incapacity for the leadership of the Church. He isolates himself from his Curia and eats out only at the home of his former secretary, Monsignor Josef Clemens. [Source: The Washington Times]
Our Pope is having serious problems, and definitely needs our prays