Many Italians Believe Obama Had Pope Benedict Removed and Replaced With “Woke” Pope Francis

As you likely know, Pope Benedict has passed away. He was the first German Pope in nearly 500 years, and he was what Catholics call a “traditionalist.” He believed in preserving the traditions of the Catholic Church, not watering them down for the progressive left. But his time as pope would be very short-lived, and his replacement would end up being a very progressive pope, who was not at all interested in “tradition.”Pope Francis was a modern pope, who viewed the world through a much more liberal lens. A perfect “pope” for the folks on the left.

And that stark contrast between the two popes, and the controversial “resignation” from Benedict, who many suspect did not step down willingly, has many Italian (and Americans) believing that Obama had some hand in it.

Would that be so shocking? No. Because throughout history the Catholic Church has found itself in the middle of countless political battles.

Of course, if you discuss this theory with anyone on the left, they’ll call you a “conspiracy theorist,” which usually means, you’re probably onto something and 100 percent right. But name-calling and shaming didn’t stop everyone from voicing their opinions over what they thought “really” happened.

Many groups felt so strongly about this, they even wanted Trump to investigate to see what role Obama played.

This article is from 2017. From Common Wealth Magazine:

In an interview given to the online newspaper Riminiduepuntozero, Negri said: “It is no coincidence that in the United States, on the basis of what has been published by Wikileaks, some Catholic groups have asked President Trump to create a commission of inquiry to investigate whether the administration of Barack Obama has lobbied Benedict XVI into the resignation. It remains for now a serious mystery, but I am sure that [those responsible will be identified]… When the time comes, the first question I will ask St. Peter’s will be on this issue.”

And in another 2017 article,  tldm.org asks “Did Obama force Pope Benedict’s resignation?”:

According to Dottori, Obama was eager to dethrone Benedict XVI for two reasons. On the one hand, his presidency was close to fundamentalist Islam (de facto fostered by regime change in Libya and Egypt and civil war in Syria, provoked by U.S. former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy design), whereas Ratzinger, ever since his famous Regensburg lecture, had been identified internationally as a strong opponent of Islamism. On the other hand, Obama was worried about the Church’s reconciliatory efforts toward Moscow’s Orthodox patriarch, within the scope – Dottori wrote – “of a geopolitical project aimed at European-Russian integration, actively supported by Germany and Italy.”

The Obama administration may have resorted to two instruments: fostering scandals within the Church and the Italian government and threatening to drain away Italian and Vatican financial resources. Italy was at risk of being excluded from international financial markets. The menace against the Vatican was to bar the IOR (Istituto per le Opere di Religione, the Vatican bank) from the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) network. Taking as an excuse the fact that the IOR did not abide by international rules of transparency, Deutsche Bank (which runs point-of-sale payment systems in the Vatican and was suspected by Bankitalia of hosting an IOR account where all money earned within the Vatican converged) had been induced to block all ATMs in Vatican City, a service curiously reactivated, Dottori noticed, right after Pope Benedict’s abdication.

With regard to this story, it is useful to spend a few more words on an important figure: former president of the IOR Ettore Gotti Tedeschi. Chosen by Pope Benedict in 2009 to reform the IOR and bring it back to international standards of transparency, in 2010, Tedeschi was the subject of a money-laundering investigation.

Notice how suspicious the events look: two years after the beginning of the inquiry, in 2012, Tedeschi was fired from his office; in 2014, after Pope Benedict’s resignation, Rome’s judge dismissed the inquiry and all allegations against Tedeschi; in 2015, in an interview with The Catholic Herald, Tedeschi declared that he had been kicked out by the IOR’s board of directors because of his intention to make radical reforms. And in a 2012 interview released to the Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano, Tedeschi had already revealed that in those months, he was so scared of being assassinated that he had written down a secret report on the IOR. (According to my sources, he had written his will as well.) The secret report had been entrusted to two of Tedeschi’s close friends as a sort of insurance policy on his own life. Tedeschi stated that he had discovered “something scary” and had engaged a struggle against the Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who was resolutely opposing any disclosure of the IOR’s secret archives to Italian authorities.

If you connect Tedeschi’s story to Dottori’s claim regarding financial blackmail enacted against the Vatican Bank in order to pressure Pope Benedict, you might suspect that Tedeschi was well aware that obscure forces, from within and without the Vatican, were swarming, and that his opposition to those influences was probably the cause of his misfortunes.

It’s an interesting theory since the Wikileaks emails from John Podesta show very clearly that Dems were focused on taking over the Catholic Church.

Coincidence? Maybe, but very doubtful.