Free Apocalypsis 1.01 Demons by Mario Giordano

VIII
    Dear brothers and sisters,
    When we pray the Nicene Creed we say, »I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life«. The Holy Spirit is God’s might, He makes the Church one with Jesus Christ. He will lead God’s people into an abundance of truth; it is the Holy Spirit Who brings about the wonderful communion of believers in Jesus Christ. True to His nature as giver and gift alike, He is also working within us.
    I am painfully aware that there are many believers all over the world who have doubted in recent days whether the Holy Spirit is still working at all in this world, and I know that I am not blameless for this development. I distressed many believers when I resigned from the highest office in the Church. And more than a few feel that, with me, the Church has also turned its back on them.
    This is why I am speaking to you today, dear brothers and sisters, to reassure you that the Church is still firmly grounded in faith, and that I am, too. It is not our Lord Jesus Christ who has abandoned you, but a simple human being who realized his weakness in the face of God.
    »He brought me out into a spacious place,« it says in Psalm 18:19, and this could also be the title of my life story. But the spacious place to which God is leading us is not only the vastness inside us but also the vastness that lies ahead of us, the vastness of the future. Our Lord brought me out into a spacious place, and in the end he endowed me with the gift of the highest ministry in the Church. For that I am eternally grateful to our Lord Jesus Christ. However, over recent weeks I have come to the painful realization that I am increasingly lacking the strength for this high office. Every human being needs a center to his life, a source of truth and goodness to draw from in the flux and toil of everyday life; the pulsing of a trusted presence, perceptible only with the senses that faith grants us: the presence of Christ, heart of the world.
    Strengthened through my faith in Christ, I have decided to step down for the benefit of the Holy Mother Church and to clear the way for a stronger representative of Christ on earth. I made my decision alone before God and without any interference or pressure from outside. It was my personal and free decision. The decision of a weak human being. But the Church is strong and a new pope will be better equipped to lead her.
    So as not to burden the Church and my successor with the shadow of my failure before God, I have also decided to withdraw from all ecclesiastical and worldly affairs and to spend the rest of my life in communion with God in a remote monastery. It is from this monastery that I am speaking to you now, dear brothers and sisters, not as a prisoner and not under the influence of any third party. This will, however, be my final public statement. For the protection of the Church and out of respect for the office of the Pope, I will not give any interviews or public statements in the future, nor will I make public appearances. I am asking you, dear brothers and sisters, to respect this decision and to forgive me.
    May the Lord be with you.

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    Courier Online, May 9, 2011
PUZZLING VIDEO MESSAGE FROM FORMER POPE
Author: Peter Adam
    R ome. In a surprising step, Pope John Paul III, who resigned last week, today gave a brief statement in a video message. The approximately four-minute-long video, which was received this morning via email by Radio Vaticano, aired immediately on Italian public television and was uploaded to the Internet. Within a few hours, it became the third most watched video in the history of YouTube. The video shows former Pope Franz Laurenz in the humble attire of a pastor, sitting at a desk. The only recognizable things in the background are a wooden cross and a window. Hence the exact whereabouts of the former Pope remain unclear. However, the ancient walls in the background fuel speculations that Franz Laurenz is in a monastery on Italian territory.
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