The Last Two Popes In Rome

19 April 2005

     On April 18, 2005, the 115 members of the College of Cardinals eligible to vote started the Conclave to elect a successor to Pope John Paul II.  They may or may not have realized that the new pope has already been chosen.  It was his identity that they had to determine.  St. Malachy has predicted many years ago that two more popes are to follow the departed pope.  They are “Gloria olivae” and “Petrus Romanus”, the LAST POPE IN ROME.  As with the previous popes in St. Malachy’s list, descriptive, not  real names were given,  Few clues if any were added.  .  With the unresolved problem of spreading terrorism and unresolved conflicts specially in the middle east, world leaders, Christian and non-Christian alike, prayed for someone who can make worldwide peace a reality.  Is this the olive branch that the bird of peace did not hold in its beak when it flew back into Pope John Paul II’s window after a much hoped for successful democratic election of their own leaders in Iraq?

     The Benedictines have been saying that Gloria olivae was to come from their line.  He was to be of Jewish-French descent.  However, St. Paul wrote:  The branches of the cultivated olive tree are the descendants of Abraham. The branches of the wild olive tree grafted into the cultivated olive tree are the Christian gentiles.  Neither group is better than the other for neither one supports the roots.

     After his predecessor’s long reign, voters preferred that the new pope be not too young.  With the ever louder clamor for a change in Church rules regarding celibacy, divorce, non-abortive methods of contraception and ordination of female priests, the cardinals likely preferred a less conservative pope. 

     At the end of the conclave on 19 April 2005, ballots were burned and white smoke floated out of the Sistine Chapel chimney.  All seven bells rang as requested by Pope John Paul II before his death.  An announcement was made by the senior deacon Cardinal Jorge Arturo Medina Estivez of Chile from the balcony: “Habemus Papam:  Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who has chosen to give upon himself the name BENEDICT XVI.'  His coat of arms shows a bear carrying a backpack.

     Did the College of Cardinals actually pick out Gloria olivae?  GOK!!!  JP II later became regarded as the pope with nine lives.  He had a broken hip, was shot and had multiple illnesses.  In 1995, according to a complicated count of years served by the different popes and how many popes would reign within certain periods of time, it was determined that he would die that year.  Indeed, a plot against his life was discovered during his visit to Manila.  It was foiled and the would be assassin caught in a different country later.   The pope died the same month a full ten years later.  There also was a prediction that warned "Paul the celibate"  not to go to the country where two rivers meet.  Very few probably knew about it.  Fortunately more than enough individuals begged him not to start his Millennium Tour in Ur.  He heard unkind words in Syria but returned to the Vatican alive.  That year, he thought of retiring but something changed his mind.  During his last series of illnesses and hospitalizations, he vowed to continue his mission.  Could he have been allowed a longer term to take over that of Gloria olivae in addition to his own?

     During the series of apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima, the three children had a vision of the clergy and the people being persecuted.  An angel stood beside the Blessed Virgin Mary.  With his left hand, he held and pointed a flaming sword towards earth while saying in a loud voice: “Penance!  Penance!  Penance!”  The Blessed Virgin Mary said: “The open heart purified by the contemplation of God is stronger than guns and weapons of every kind.  My Immaculate Heart will triumph.”  During one of her sppsritions, Mary held a rosary. 

      In 2003, John Paul II appointed a new cardinal in a country where the Church is being oppressed.  The cardinal's identity was not revealed to protect him from his own government.  The secret name was taken by JP II to the grave.  If he voted, it was in spirit.  God knows who his candidate was.

     There is a definite need to do penance and pray for peace as can be concluded from the visions in Fatima.  We may as well start now and hopefully be able to prevent or at least postpone or lessen the severity of the catastrophe.  As to whether or not there shall be more popes and the Church will survive, we hope that this is just a transient time of tribulation which becomes an opportunity to change and unite.  There is such a prophecy that says ... "The dog of war howls all night when the Pontiff changes bier."  The papal seat shall move.  The Church has a Coptic Pope exiled by the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981. He is still alive.  The Church is growing fast in Africa.  It is not the end of the world yet.  Plan to restructure elsewhere.  Also, St. Malachy did not say that there would be no intervening pope/s before Petrus Romanus who in the final persecution of the Holy Roman Catholic Church will feed his flock amidst tribulations.  He shall appear to be great and have the allegiance of the world.  Even the elect shall be mislead.   After this Rome shall be destroyed and the terrible judge shall judge the people.

     The 265^th Pope is truly the “Glory of the Olive”.  He took the name of the patron of the Benedictines.  He chose the bear carrying a backpack as his coat of arms symbolizing his humility and willingness to carry the weight of his difficult mission.  In Bavaria there is no telling how much of the population were of Jewish-French descent before and during World War II.  Edgar Cayce said that there would be ONE pope after John Paul II and he would reign for a short time.  At his age, he cannot last very long.