Pope Benedict XVI faces Roman Catholic Church Scandal of
Failure to Protect Children from Predator Priest – Image Credit :AP
According to a new CBS News poll released on “Good Friday”, April 2, 2010, American and European unfavorable rating for Pope Benedict XVI jumped from 4% in 2006 to 24% today. American and European Catholics’ faith in the leadership of the “Church” is plummeting and creating a historic crisis in the largest Christian Church in the world.
Over the recent few weeks the international news media has turned harsh against the spiritual Pontiff who stood in the shoes of the most revered pope in recent history; Pope John Paul II. While Benedict’s favorable rating remained at 15%, his unfavorable rating skyrocketed. What is even more shocking is that 61% of the Roman Catholic are suspending judgment to the Church that most Christian prophecy watchers call the Antichrist or the “Prophet” that will sign allegiance to the Antichrist. Christian Prophetic models on the final days of the Apocalypse may have to be rewritten if Benedict’s fate becomes sealed.
Allegations are streaming in against the former Archbishop of Munich and who was later elevated to the former office of the Grand Inquisitor in the Medieval Office of the infamous and feared Inquisition that today is called the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith. For thousands, maybe millions of Roman Catholic boys,in the past and present, the Inquisition today is still alive and well.
Charges that as the Chief Enforcer of the Catholic faith, Pope Benedict XVI failed immensely to protect its young boys against predator priests have shaken the Holy See to its foundation. American Catholic favorable rating of 40% in 2006 plummeted 13 points to 27%. 36% of Catholics claimed that they were “undecided” about the Pontiff, up from 21% in 2006. More than 67% of Americans including 55% of Roman Catholics claim that Benedict was inept against or deliberately covered-up the abuse scandal of the priests.
In a telephone poll conducted among 858 adults across the United States, only 13% of all respondents and 20% of Roman Catholics claim that the Spiritual Leader of the Roman Catholic Church has done a good job on the sexual abuse scandal within the “Church”.
This does not bode well for the future of this current pope for under his papal rule, it has opened up a festering evil that has exposed the corruption of the top echelons of Roman Catholicism. Are we witnessing the final days of Pope Benedict XVI whose fate may be the same Pope John Paul II’s predecessor, the saintly Albino Luciani as Pope John Paul I, who was called the “Smiling Pope”?
Pope John Paul I’s life was snuffed out on September 28, 1978 in what David Yallop in his book, “In God’s Name” stated was the “most successful of ‘perfect crimes’’’ that went all that way from Cardinal Villot, to the Vatican secretaries and physicians, the domestic help and including the Swiss Guards and the Italian police. It appears that whether you are a “saint” or whether you are “corrupt” your job is to cover up the corruption from within. As described in a BibleSearchers Reflection article on Pope John Paul II, it opened up the reason for the murder of his predecessor and the expose on his death in the article titled, “Pope John Paul II and the Three Internationales” in the subsection titled, “The Assassination or Murder of Pope Paul I”, in which the following was written;
BibleSearchers Reflections – “He (Pope John Paul I) was a fervent believer in the ecumenical movement, praised as a liberal with a mission to change the church’s stance on contraception, lived and believed like a conservative with a crusading desire to reduce the wealth of the church, clean up the corruption and scandal in the Vatican Bank and dismiss a large number of ranking Masonic cardinals.”
It may be “The Papal Prophecies of St. Malachy” that may give us some clues of the future. This papal legate of Ireland recorded in 1139 his vision that has faithfully predicted the last 111 of the 112 remaining popes of the total of 267 popes recognized by the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Benedict XVI, whose prophecy described him as the “Glorious Olivet” was a Franciscan pope, whose insignia is the “Olive”. Yet the last pope, according to St. Malachy, will be Petros Romanus of which the final fate of the Vatican in Rome plus its pontiff was described:
St. Malachy – “Petros Romanus” - The 112th prophesy states: "In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church there will reign Petrus Romanus, who will feed his flock amid many tribulations; after which the seven-hilled city will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people."
Will there be a final 27th Jewish pope, of the total of 267 popes, as described in “The Jewish Popes in the Roman Catholic Church” who will shepherd apostate Roman Christian Church’s final transformation before Roman Catholicism meets her divine fate? If so, then will the Vatican’s final destiny become a part of the larger 2012, End of the Mayan World Age prophesies and the beginning of the final Seven last Trumpet and Vial Plagues of Revelation.
Credits to Gulf News – “Pope Benedict's Ratings Plummet after Scandal: Poll” – April 3, 2010