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Yesterday. 5 January 2023.
Following custom, and because it is also a legal act, there is a document placed in the tomb with deceased popes, enumerating their dates and deeds. It is called a “Rogito”, or “Deed”. The Vatican site has the Rogito for Benedict HERE. He really should not be called “Emeritus” at this point, regardless of what you think about his resignation. He was the 265th POPE, pure and simple. He is now dead and the term “emeritus” is meaningless.
Into the casket of popes are placed, as above, the account of their lives as well as the coins and medals struck during their pontificate. This is an ancient way of dating a person before calendars became widespread and sophisticated.
In the video, you see ribbons fixed with wax, which in Italian is called “ceralacca” which hardens to a lacquer-like finish. I have some.
You see the impression of seals as they bend over the edges of the zinc layer of the coffin and then how it is soldered closed.
The plaque on the coffin reads
CORPUS
BENEDICTI XVI P.M.
VIXIT A. XCV M. VIII D. XV
ECCLESIÆ UNIVERSÆ PRÆFUIT A. VII M. X D. IX
A D. XIX M. APR. A. MMV AD D. XXVIII M. FEB. A. MMXIII
DECESSIT DIE XXXI M. DECEMBRIS ANNO DOMINI MMXXII
NB: HE IS NOT CALLED “EMERITUS” ON THIS PLAQUE
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RIP, Pope Benedict XVI. Even The Babylon Bee (no Catholics they) gets it:
https://babylonbee.com/news/pope-francis-announces-passing-of-final-catholic-pope
I wonder if Benedict was the “katechon” of 2 Thessalonians 2:6-7 and if so, what happens now . . . .
1. Bxf7+ Qxf7
2. Qxf7+ Kg8
3. Qxf8+ Rxf8
4. Rxf8#
Lots of deep thought and discussion has gone on about the Papacy and the Pope. A young Ratzinger was one of those delving into that. Is it like Holy Orders or Matrimony? Can it be separated or bifurcated? A lot of that discussion is as old as Martha and Mary and the position is that one role (active) is necessary toil and the other (contemplative) is superior. Giant, restless intellects toil away concerning matters like this and as a simple man, I think it can lead them to error. Augustine was given a vision at the sea shore knocking some sense into him but not everyone is that blessed. If you believe that the office of Pope is supernatural and has an effect then its removal must also have an effect. Did anybody notice any effect upon Benedict? Did the nature of his writing change? Did he hang a print of a scandalous nude Jesus ministering to Judas in his office? Did he have a bust of Luther placed upon his desk? Did he celebrate Mass with a bowl of demon dirt on the altar? None of those things happened with the “emeritus” but those and more occurred with the new guy. Obviously that begs a question…especially since they buried Papa as Pope and the “Pope” buried the Pope? —Konfused Konvert
It takes a bit longer if:
B-f7+ K-h8
White must move his bishop to clear the f file.
Then Black moves Bxc5+, then
Qxc5 h7-h6
R-f8+ Rxf8
Qxf8+ K-h7
White is up material, a bishop for a pawn
But no clear path to #
It strikes me that the insistence on continuing to refer to Benedict as “Emeritus” pope is a reflection of certain Vatican officials still being sensitive (or paranoid) about the validity of Francis’s papacy: if they can, they will even get “emeritus” carved in stone so that Benedict is known forever more as “the guy who isn’t pope“, and (basically) for nothing else.
One wonders whether, in Francis’s Rome and nearby, the very term “emeritus” will now go into a steep decline as being a pejorative, instead of a term of honor. Will mafia dons who are ousted with extreme prejudice now be referred to (in the past tense) as a “mafia don emeritus”? Will governors who are forced out of office by a recall vote be known as “governor emeritus”?