Is The Sh!T About To Hit The Fan?

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Though this is not likely to affect anyone here But, shit is hitting the fan on a 1000 year old Order.

In the past few weeks, following rumors that he may be stepping down, Pope Francis has dissolved the Knights of Malta leadership, downgraded the status of Opus Dei, and ordered Vatican entities to move all funds into the Vatican Bank. Is Francis trying to avert a coup? Dodging a bullet of some sort - the entire Vatican is traditionally a concealed-carry state. Gladio restructuring. Flashbacks of P2.

Pope dissolves Knights of Malta leadership, issues new constitution

VATICAN CITY, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Saturday dissolved the leadership of the Knights of Malta, the global Catholic religious order and humanitarian group, and installed a provisional government ahead of the election of a new Grand Master.

The change, which the pope issued in a decree, came after five years of often acrimonious debate within the order and between some top members of the old guard and the Vatican over a new constitution that some feared would weaken its sovereignty.

Under the previous constitution, the top Knights and the Grand Master were required to have noble lineage, something reformers said excluded nearly everyone except Europeans from serving in top roles.

The new constitution eliminates the nobility rule as well as the tradition of Grand Masters being elected for life.

The Pillar

Pope Francis overhauls Order of Malta

The order has been in a protracted process of constitutional reform since 2017. After years of gridlock, Pope Francis gave Tomasi new powers last October to change the knights’ religious life and internal governance, despite concerns that this could violate the order’s sovereign status in international law.
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The papal decree began with a preamble asserting that the sovereign institution had “always enjoyed special protection from the Apostolic See.” It recalled historic instances of papal interventions in the order.

It also noted that as the organization is a religious order, “it depends, in its various articulations, on the Holy See.”

He added that the whole order required a “profound spiritual, moral and institutional renewal,” and not only the order’s small number of professed knights, who have made vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

Ad majorem Dei gloriam! So says the absolute monarchy.


It's been written, winter is coming.





Odd timing...





The other Order that is of same age, recognized & protected by the Holy See is the Order of the Holy Sepulchre. The current Grand Prior, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, is Pierbattista Pizzaballa. Helluva name!


Meanwhile, the Pope vote-stuffing cardinals as a counter measure to an assassination/coup...

Pope Francis expands ranks of cardinals in charge of electing new church leader

Pope Francis elevated 20 more churchmen to the rank of cardinal on Saturday, formally expanding those now eligible to vote for his successor in case he dies or resigns — the latter a step he has said he’d consider if the need arises.

Of the churchmen being named new cardinals in the consistory ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica, 16 are younger than 80 and thus eligible to participate in a conclave — the ritual-shrouded, locked-door assembly of cardinals who cast paper ballots to elect a new pontiff.

The 85-year-old Francis has now named 83 of the 132 cardinals currently young enough to join a conclave.

Interesting article on the Knights of Malta.