SSPX fires Williamson

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And Mr.Ratzinger is suddenly on a plank. Hoyos brought him there. SSPX just pulled back. Lets see whether Ratzinger will fall down.

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Benedikt the 16th (aged 81) is in the heaviest crisis of his 4-year pontificat. He doesnt seem to have caused it himself. But he got the responsibility. And that's a heavy burden.

The nightmares of this world wait each morning for the pope. In his bank where he prays lay the memores collected by workers for the apostolin palace which are letters by aid seekers who hope that the pope prays for them.


About this time its silent in the papal flat, it is a short time after 6. Benedikt the 16th knees on his bank, opens one letter after the other and is in a dialogue with god. He calls for mercy for a Barbara, amatthew , somewhere on the world, who fight their fate.

Loneliness and desperation exist at this time in the proximity of the pope as well. Dario Castrillon Hoyos who is a cardinal from columbia and who is a close confidant of Benedikt should be hampered by such trouble. He is supposed to have committed a colossal failuree and brought the pope close to abyss.

Hoyos prepared for the pope the nixing of the excommunication of the four bishops of the ultraconservative Pius-brotherhood. On the day of the decision Swedish TV broadcasted an interview with Williamsob. He denied the holocaust another time in it.

And to such a man the pope offered his hand right now. Unimaginable. a catastrophy. As if earth opens. as if phosphor mixes with perfume.

The world asks:"what did the pope think?" the WP wrote. "for the first time in his reign the pope risks to shrug off his base" - time magazine.


67 of the Germans are convinced that the pope damaged the church with his actions according to an Emnid poll for bild on sunday.

More and more faithfuls are quitting the church enraged. The head of the German section inside Radio Vatican, Pater Eberhard von Gemmingen, called it already an exit-wave.


Benedetto was cheered by the people four years ago when inaugurated. ANd now he seems to have lost the contact to the mass of the faithfulls. How coould this happen to the pope?

It starts with the idea that the pope is the sheppard who rescues lost sheep. And if he finishes a church shisma while doing so even better.



THe retired cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos convinced the pope that it is time to make a step towards the traditionalistic Pius bishops who were excommunicated 20 years ago.



Benedikt had his bishops prepare everything necessary. And he was speedy. That there was a holocuast denier among the bishops... didnt Hoyos know so? or did he sublime? or did he deny willfully?


THe decree was prepared hastily and wasnt shown for examination towards the press office led by Federica Lombardi. "We didnt have main control of communication" Lombardi is being cited later on.



That a failure was followed by failure at this point got many unsuspectible reasons, what is for example the leadership structure inside the Vatican. Pope John Paul the second for example held many discussions with all participants. Benedict the 16th instead lives in an imaginary world, where, though he also talks, leaves much to his confidants.


This time it ended in disaster. One had the the pope run into a sticking sword what is the estimation of Freiburds archbisahop Zollitsch, head of Germany bishop board. Zollitsch narrates off desperation, what now governs the Vatican. In a phone call a representative of the inner circle told him: "the pope is very concerned. He suffers." Also Walter cardinal Kasper, a close friend of Benedict said shocked: "the neighborhood of the pope is a total failure."

THe pope suffers. But who proteccts him, whos at his side? Surely his speaker Lombardi who thought of an intrigue for a while. He examined, made some inquieries, but is now convinced: it was more of a coincidence.

Lombardi is one of the few workers who the pope can trust in in these difficult days. There werent many, 6 praps.

Auch Georg Gänswein zählt dazu, der persönliche Sekretär Benedikts. Wie eine Lawine sei die Katastrophe über den Vatikan hinweggerollt, sagt er. In der vergangenen Woche hätte der Prälat aus Freiburg eigentlich ins Bett gehört. Trotz Schutzimpfung hatte ihn die Grippe erwischt, so richtig mit Fieber, schmerzenden Gliedern, dröhnendem Kopf. Doch jetzt war nicht die Zeit, sich auszuruhen. Sein Papst war in Gefahr. Und die Schutzmauer um ihn schien seltsam durchlässig.

Georg Gänswein is another of them who is the personal secretary of the pope. "Like an avalanche the catastrophy rolled over the Vatican." The prelate should have rested in bed last week.