I'm calling "Shenanigans!" on this for two reasons:

First, the extensive mind-control programming described would be nearly, if not literally, impossible to reverse in order for this man to both remember, and lucidly describe, what he claims.

Second, he allegedly wanted to make a deathbed confession to his family, but he claims to have been chosen because he had no family connections, and his past history was wiped out.

Neither has the right to judge him if he is, in fact, the Pope, which is the fundamental question.

The fact that Pope Benedict XVI has stated that he abdicated and has referred to another man as the Pope is not in any sense proof that he did, in fact, abdicate. "I dindu nuffin' " does not make it the truth, something is true on its own merit.

So, now, please produce canonically-valid proof of Benedict XVI's actual abdication.

Hey, yo! Father Carmine!

Rocky & Father Carmine

Don't forget that Rocky portrayed the main characters plainly and unapologetically as distinctly Roman Catholic. I still find it touching.

<puke>. Yawn.

(Aside from the specific details, is there anyone who didn't already know this? And, does anyone really need to hear the specific details?)

They do. That is not the question.

The question is the other way around: "Does a soul have a body from the moment of the soul's creation?" (Put another way, "Is a soul created at conception, or had God already created the soul at some time before?") The Church, as I understand, has never taken a doctrinal position on this question.

My personal belief (for whatever that may be worth) is that all souls were created by God long before God formed Adam on this Earth. At the very least, it seems that all souls must at least be known to God before the conception of the body for any particular soul.

"Is someone who is never conceived- a potential person, without a body and a soul, never really created- known by God?"

This question presumes a conclusion never reached by the Church: that the soul comes into existence (i.e., is essentially "created") at conception. Mankind does not have the power to thwart God's creation, but only to choose to not participate in conception. A vow of virginity (with one notable and blessed exception) has the same effect.

These people's minds have turned to mush.

Direct quote from article:
" 'Sexual morality is the corpse in the cellar of the church, and the stench that emanates from this corpse corrupts everything else.' - It was therefore time to 'give this corpse a good burial', Wandinger explained..."

Yes, of course, he is right: attention given to sexuality and sexual matters is stinking up the Church, and that corpse should be "buried".

Attention should be given then to justification and sanctification, those things necessary to remain in God's grace in order that one may enter into eternal life, wherein is virtually no place for paying heed to these temporal things of the flesh, other than bringing them to heel in conformity with God's will.