Edward Pentin has published an extensive piece on his own private website titled, “Debate Intensifies Over Benedict XVI’s Resignation and Role as Pope Emeritus.” CLICK HERE TO READ.

It is telling that EWTN (who owns the National Catholic Register) refused to publish this – as one correspondent put it – “meticulously even-handed” piece by the best and most respected English language Vaticanista working today.  Remember folks, if you think the dollar$ flying around in Trad Inc. are eyebrow-raising, remember that Novu$ Ordo Inc. is ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE bigger than Trad Inc.  Novu$ Ordo Inc. will not touch this.  I’m telling you folks, it’s all about the money.

Kudos to and prayers for Edward Pentin in having the stones to publish this anyway. He is definitely sticking his neck out.

I obviously encourage everyone to read the whole thing, but I do want to excerpt one bit from an Italian deacon whose work I was not previously familiar with.  There are now MANY Italian scholars and canonists who are speaking out with regards to the invalidity of Pope Benedict’s failed partial resignation – the English language press and FiP blogosphere is intentionally ignoring the Italian scholarship, knowing full well that English speakers are notorious for refusing to investigate anything that isn’t written or published in English. “Just ignore it. No one will ever see it.”

From Pentin’s piece:

A further study currently circulating in Rome is that by Italian deacon and scientist Liberato De Caro, a researcher at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Istituto di Cristallografia in Bari.

Noting that Benedict has preferred to leave his status “unregulated,” De Caro argues that the title “Pope Emeritus” is, in itself, of concern as it “involves a sort of split between the primatial office of the Pope and that of the Bishop of Rome” — a division which, because those aspects of the papacy are “united in the one person of the Roman Pontiff,” presents “inevitable legal-theological implications.”

[…]

To imply the papal office is by its very nature divisible, and that it us up to “human willingness to choose which faculties to renounce and which to maintain, is in blatant violation of divine law,” De Caro writes in an essay of “brief reflections” on the “emeritus papacy.” He concludes, therefore, that the Benedict’s resignation is invalid as it is “contrary to divine law itself.”

And now we wait for Trad Inc. to character assassinate Edward Pentin, and to impugn the credentials of Dr. De Caro, while their own position is based on the thoroughly debunked writings of two civil lawyers, one of which is a former 32nd degree Freemason.

Speaking of which, I particularly enjoyed this paragraph too:

Other senior Vatican sources have said that between Benedict’s announcement of his resignation on Feb. 11, 2013, and his departure from the apostolic palace three weeks later, a number of cardinals pressed Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, then Vatican Secretary of State, to clarify the canonical status of an abdicated pope as they saw it could be “potentially problematic,” but “nothing was done.”

You couldn’t make this up in a million years.

Fast and pray, folks!! It’s all happening!!

Fr. Anthony Hannon states in his very kind and gentle demeanor what so many people have also noticed – there is no real counter-argumentation to the case that Pope Benedict’s resignation was not valid as I have laid it out both on video and in writing in this space over the past 3.5 years.

There is, however, a very noticeable and conspicuous tendency towards ad hominem attacks against my person, which, as Father Hannon rightly points out, at this point is actually serving to bolster my credibility.  Ad hominem might have worked years ago, but now people are seeing me being called such names as “online Catholic cancer”, or, perhaps even more tellingly when people make the obvious dodge by saying, “Barnhardt’s arguments are so ridiculous that they merit no consideration” and instantly recognize it for what it is: a total retreat.

The Prayer Over the People at the end of Mass today is one of my all-time favorites. SO VIRILE!

Prayer over the people

Let us pray.

Bow your heads to God.

O Lord, we beseech You, shed light upon our minds by the brightness of Your glory, so that we may see what we must do and have strength to do what is right.

Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end.

R. Amen.

O Lord, show us what ta do, then help us git ‘er dun.

This CoronaVirus is a type of flu, in the general sense.

This whole bee-ess is CALCULATED ECONOMIC AND SUPPLY CHAIN INTERRUPTION.

Normal seasonal flu strains kill – KILL – 150-200 souls per day every day in the U.S. alone.

Mostly elderly people, and people with compromised immune systems, OVER THE AGE OF EIGHTY are being killed by CoronaVirus. Have you seen the age mortality stats?

AGE

DEATH RATE

80+ years old

14.8% dr

70-79 years old

8.0% dr

60-69 years old

3.6% dr

50-59 years old

1.3% dr

40-49 years old

0.4% dr

30-39 years old

0.2% dr

20-29 years old

0.2% dr

10-19 years old

0.2% dr

0-9 years old

no fatalities

Okay, guys, do you want to know WHY the Chinese, especially in Wuhan province, got hit? It’s because they are all chronically pulmonarically (lungs) compromised from the Chinese air pollution. This is a pic of an average day in Wuhan.

So these Chinese folk get a strain of nasty flu, and develop pneumonia. Well, no shit.

I’m no Trump fan girl (although the lovely Catholic adult convert Melania makes me smile the “good for her” type smile), but I am ONE HUNDRED with Trump on calling out the bee-ess double-standard on all “climate accords” on the grounds that China is exempt. The Chinese are actually engaging in climate crimes, and I’m hesitant to use the term, but they’re doing it – and billions of Chinese lungs pay the price.

I have spoken.

Bishop Schneider in LifeSite News repeated a now debunked quote (debunked by LifeSite News itself no less – come on LifeSite, you have to up your editorial game) that Pope Benedict said “There is one Pope and he is Francis”… except Pope Benedict never said that. Bishop Schneider apparently isn’t aware of this. LifeSite should have pointed it out to him – and their readers.

So there’s that.

Then, Bishop Schneider threw many saints and Doctors of the Church under the bus when he said that those contesting an Antipope in real-time are “spiritually myopic” and “Pelagians”.

Saint Peter Damian, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and Saint Catherine of Siena were all unavailable for comment. They might have all been busy at the “Doctors of the Church” convention now being held in the beautiful Omni Hotel and Convention center in San Diego.

Bishop Schneider also repeated that there is no non-supernatural way out of this, and understand what “supernatural” means: it means a totally non-human, full blown break-the-laws-of-physics with something like Saints Peter and Paul appearing in the sky over Rome with flaming swords – NOT the Divine Providence working through human beings to guide the Barque of Peter to safe waters by identifying the true Pope and deposing an Antipope, EXACTLY AS HAS HAPPENED AT LEAST FORTY TIMES IN THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH. Because, apparently, that is no longer possible… for some completely unknown and inexplicable reason.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I am not aware of any of the FORTY antipapacies being recognized and remedied by full-blown miraculous supernatural means. Not one.

And it seems to me that not only is a path forward POSSIBLE, but also excruciatingly simple. It would begin with at least one Cardinal making the following public statement:

“Significant canonical irregularities have been identified with regards to Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation as proffered in February of 2013. Pending further investigation, a state of emergency suspense is hereby declared.”

Here are some pictures of people Holy Mother Church has declared to be saints, complete with actual miracles and a rigorous devil’s advocate canonization process, and THEN additionally declared them “Doctors of the Church”, but whom Bishop Schneider apparently considers to have been spiritually myopic Pelagian heretics.

So either Bishop Schneider needs to have a chat with someone and be corrected, or Holy Mother Church does, and Santa Maria Sopra Minerva desperately needs a new high altar, and the only interesting thing to see in Siena is a horse race.

St. Peter Damian, pray for us.

St. Bernard of Clairvaux, pray for us.

St. Catherine of Siena, pray for us.

Spiritually myopic Pelagian number 1:

Spiritually myopic Pelagian number two:

Spiritually myopic Pelagian number three:

Today is one of those days when all you can do is say, “Thank you.”

First to God Almighty, then to my patron saints, and then TO YOU.

All the prayers, all the support, all the extreme munificence. Thank you.

Thank you.

If it all ends tomorrow, all I will be able to say is, “Thank You God. Have mercy on me, O Lord, a sinner. Thank you.”

“For the Lord is sweet, His mercy endureth for ever, and His truth to generation and generation.” Psalm 99: 5