Editor’s Note: In an article, which can only be read if you pay to subscribe, il Messaggero, the newspaper which has run cover for Pope Francis since 2016, when it began to squelch dissent and questions about his legitimacy, has published a shameful piece in which they decry “fake” news such as posts saying that Pope Francis is already dead, that his funeral is in preparation, or that he is about to resign!
We can all agree that the first two are fake news, but the third is evidently directed only against those news publication, which are sensible and look at the real facts of the day, and think about them.
But il Messaggero pleads with its readers not to pay attention to any of this, because, as they say, it is making the work of professional journalists more difficult to publish the true news!
Needless to say, that you can see the very crocodile tears ooze from your computer screen reading this article, it is so full of virtue signally and gall! — The MSM which has published so much fake news for decades is at last loosing control of the narrative, and it hurts!
The sophistry of the article is also on display when they argue that Pope Francis is not going to take the resignation he already signed in 2013 out of the drawer of his desk for good reasons, which they do not cite. Of course not! A conditional resignation, restricting its validity to so many years hence or under the terms of a comatose state could not be used today. — And indeed its not hard to write a letter in the presence of witnesses with a one line resignation: “I renounce the petrine munus”. BUT it will be difficult for the MSM to report those words, because they know it might mean the draining of the ecclesial swamp, if the new Pope begins the Great Catholic Reset, of which I have written and spoken frequently.
