Benedict's Funeral and Sydney's World Youth Day

Benedict XVI will be buried on Thursday in the vestments he wore for the 2008 Sydney World Youth Day, Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher wrote on social media.

"What a wonderful tribute to how much he loved World Youth Day 2008 and Australia," Fisher exulted. To keep the funeral "simple," only two official delegations will be present, one from Germany and one from Italy.

After the funeral Mass, the coffin will be laid to rest in the crypt of the popes, near the tomb of Saint Peter.

Vatican Media images show the first faithful and the Italian regime, represented by President Sergio Mattarella, bidding farewell to Benedict XVI in St Peter's Basilica on Monday morning.

Picture: Vatican Media, #newsZhmiktgyvf

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Kenjiro M. Yoshimori

2 Jan 2

They got almost 70,000 people viewing the body of Pope Benedict XVI today (the Vatican expected 25,000). Hopefully tomorrow it's over 100,000+. The Vatican expects 30,000 for the funeral on Thursday. That is only laughable, but it is evil.....when they know that tens of thousands , and manybe hundreds of thousands more will pack Piazza San Pietro. Pope Francis and his people must be having fits of …More

Darrell J Roman

Jan 3

Amen! The people will show Francis that Pope Benedict XVI was loved and respected as the Holy Father even to this day!

Katja Metzger

2 Jan 2

Michael Brendan Dougherty:
"There is something restful and immovable about Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, already. His legacy as a theologian pope is so formidable, of such unchallengeable merit, that his detractors and enemies already appear as fools, and zealots, as rank amateurs, ignoramuses, and passing windbags. Benedict XVI was the greatest mind to reach the papacy in a millennium. I write …More

V.R.S.

2 Jan 2

"Benedict XVI was the greatest mind to reach the papacy in a millennium"
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The moment of death is a very serious moment but such comments are funny glimpses of ignorance and folly.

Kenjiro M. Yoshimori

Jan 2

@V.R.S. - ""Benedict XVI was the greatest mind to reach the papacy in a millennium"- although this statement MIGHT be a bit of an exaggeration, because the great Pius XII outweighed Benedict XVI in both devotion to the traditions of the Church and theologically, Benedict XVI was still a GIANT of Catholic theology, s scholar and religious genius. JPII was no theologian, and Pope Francis looks like an imbecile compared to any Pope of the last millennium. The legacy and contributions of Benedict XVI will be treasured in the Church and by the Faithful for many generations.
Francis and company are " passing windbags" to quote the above post. He and his people and their agenda/ideology are already hated by huge segments of the Church.
It is ignorance and folly to belittle the quote that ""Benedict XVI was the greatest mind to reach the papacy in a millennium".
It is even more so to hold out that fading hypothesis that Pope Francis is a real Pope and spiritual leader. With the passing of Pope Benedict....that thinking is increasingly ignorance and folly.

V.R.S.

Jan 2edited

@Kenjiro M. Yoshimori
Myths upon myths.

To be honest Fr. Ratzinger was a mumbo-jumbo sophistry-magician. Starting with his conciliar youth and arguing that subsistence is the noblest form of existence (justifying scandalous Lumen Gentium 8). Also later as the JPII's right hand.
Read about the Fr. Rosmini case and tricks Cardinal Ratzinger used to "uncondemn" him because His Master (JPII) named late Fr.Rosmini (beatified later by Ratzinger) as a great philosopher in the encyclical Fides et Ratio (forgetting that his propositions were condemned by the Church during Leo XIII's reign). Then Great Postconciliar Houdini was called to action and did his job.
Again he used his tricks at the moment of so-called Third Secret Disclosure by Vatican labouring to provide the Wojtylian re-interpretation of Fatima.
Then there came infamous "hermeneutics of continuity" in spite of Vatican II reality and two form fiction for the Roman Rite (with Jewish Easter or rather Good Friday egg). The essay by Bp Tissier de Mallerais on his hermeneutics is an interesting lecture here.
I suggest also as a lecture D. Wemhoff's articles about Fr. Ratzinger's compliance with New American World Order paradigm.

PS some useful links:
Christmas greetings to the Members of the Roman Curia and Prelature (December 22, 2005) | BENEDICT XVI
Incontro con i Parroci e il Clero della Diocesi di Roma (14 febbraio 2013) | BENEDICT XVI
Joseph Ratzinger’s American Mind – The American Proposition
vatican.va/…cuments/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20010701_rosmini_en.html
Third Secret of Fatima-Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
Wikileaks, Watykan i żydzi

Kenjiro M. Yoshimori

Jan 2

@V.R.S.-I agree with your comments above, but it really was not Penedict XVI's fault. He was following orders from John Paul II, who probably was more of a heretic like the present Pope Francis, than an orthodox Pope he so much is portrayed as being. Benedict XVI was just following orders. I have a lot of sympathy for Benedict XVI, because I believe he wanted to be traditional after he saw the disasters after Vatican II, but he was a were meek/gentle person who did as commanded by a forceful Pope who was enormously popular ( don't know why, his trips accomplished nothing, and his WYD was a circus). But Benedict was a faithful soldier who carried out orders. Later on, he even tried to make corrections but was ignored by the Roman Curia....mostly all leftover JPII men . I feel sorry for him, because he really wanted to do the right things, but got no support from the Curia or Bishops.

V.R.S.

Jan 2

@Kenjiro M. Yoshimori
Tissier de Mallerais essay:
isidore.co/…son_ Ben - Mallerais, Bp. Bernard Tissier_3762.pdf
More links in the postscriptum to the previous comment.

V.R.S.

Jan 2

@Kenjiro M. Yoshimori
To be honest I see a kind of the Stockholm syndrome here. "Look, he says St. Gregory the Great & St. Pius V rite is as good as the Bugnini Mass. WOW! Awesome!" or:
"See, Dignitatis Humanae is in perfect continuity with Quas Primas & Syllabus and Mortalium animos in perfect continuity with Unitatis redintegratio & Nostra aetate. But you must be a great theologian to see it".

I wonder if in the 10th century Catholics also performed similar funny talks: "Oh, that pope John XI was really, really better and more Catholic (sigh) than this poor John XII. A giant on the Petrine throne I say".

Kenjiro M. Yoshimori

Jan 2

LOOK AT THE ENORMOUS THRONGS WAITING TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS TO THE GREAT BENEDICT XVI ALREADY!!! Almost looks bigger than what came out for JPII. God Bless the great Pope Benedict XVI. This is a slap in the face to Pope Francis and his people, who hoped there would be no big reaction to the death of Pope Benedict XVI. Francis and his trolls better not do anything against the legacy of this magnificent Pope by way of attacking his legacy and the Roman Rite Mass, blaming him for the pedophile priests, etc. Francis' days as Pope are numbered in months. And his "Synodal Church" is dead already. The faithful won't stand for it. The worthless priests and bishops might, but not the CATHOLICS.

Bruceph Mildur

Jan 2

"Francis and his trolls better not"... Or what? A little temperance please.

Clement Jaeho Chung

Jan 2

@Kenjiro M. Yoshimori Happy New Year!! Kenjiro!!!! really thanks for your opinion last time!!! really hope we will get real Pope, Orthodox Pope....fast time....this time...I am very, very angry to Bergoglio and Bergoglian's actions!! be cause they did not have Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI's carrying to Saint Peter Square!! I know...Pope gone to heaven...carrying across to Peter Square..and going to Saint Peter Basilica...Cardinals, Bishops, Priests, Monks are many people lead to procession!!! but now...so horrible...Beroglio and Bergoglian thinks if, if Carrying, Procession to Peter Square Benedict XVI....so many people are crying...huge miss him...so I think canceled..Lord knows everything...I am sure...Bergoglio and Bergoglian will going to Hellfire! really hope..Holy Ghost help to us...so we will get real Pope, Orthodox Pope fast time...much pray to it!! ..Lord Sacred Heart of Jesus...please lead to your servant Pope Benedict XVI's soul in to the Kingdom of Heaven....give to him eternal Life!!! Holy Mary, All Angels and Saints..pray for his soul....Amen....many talking sorry....our Lord Sacred Heart of Jesus blessed always you and all your family...all lovely people...Holy Mary, All Angels and Saints..pray for us...Amen...and much, much pray to the Lord...please send us real Pope, Orthodox Pope..fast time!! really want this crazy old man's time will fast gone!!!! Happy New Year Again!! Kenjiro!! if you are annoying sorry...but I learning a lot of your great opinions!!! take care!!