1:30:43 Whatever the situation ends up being, folks, this has really added a lot of fuel to the fire of the COVID-19 vaccine debate, and that is not going anywhere anytime soon. And we hope the best for this young athlete. Tom Renz, thank you so much, tomrenz.com. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we've got to switch lanes now. The other big story today is what's going on with the Vatican. And he recently deceased Pope, and who better to get on than Leo Zagami from leozagami.com and the author of Confessions of an Illuminati. Leo, you gotta just lay out the whole story for me here and what's going on, the latest headlines on your website, Pope Ratzinger was no saint.
1:31:33 But he was kept in isolation from 2020 after his book with Cardinal Serra infuriated Bergoglia, I'm butchering that, Ratzinger's funeral mass on January 5th, 2023 and the number 23 in Illuminati synchronicity. Leo Zagami, what's the latest story here? Hi, Owen. Happy New Year to you and all our viewers. Of course, the latest story from the Vatican is the imminent funeral of Pope Emeritus Ratzinger, Benedict XVI, who was the first pope in recent history to, of course, resign 10 years ago.
1:32:16 And he has finally passed away. The strange thing, of course, is that the Vatican is not really giving any state funerals for this former pope. They are rather respecting, they say, a low-key approach. But inside sources say that the problem is they don't want to spend too much money, because they have probably a con club also coming up this year when Pope Bergoglio, Pope Francis will probably resign following this tradition, exactly 10 years after tradition, of course, of resigning that has broke with the longstanding tradition of leaving the papacy up until death.
1:33:02 They are, of course, increasing voices of criticism towards this decision. Orban just went to visit recently as a private citizen. Of course, like many others, the pope's body has been transported. In the early hours of yesterday morning into the Basilica of St. Peter's Square, it was a small ritual. It didn't last long. They had this cardinal, of course, fumigating him and welcoming him in a way.
1:33:44 And of course, that kickstarted all the visits to the Pope, which are unprecedented. In the last 24 hours, over 100,000 people have already visited this Pope. And this is something that really has surprised, apparently. the Vatican and also the security forces that are of course involved in this visit, that of course every person goes there, queues up and then has to go through all the various security procedures. Regarding Ratzinger as a figure, a lot of people claim he was the last real pope, he was the last traditionalist. But let's not forget that he is somebody who participated to the Second Vatican Council. He is somebody whose legacy is connected still to the pedophilia cover-up.
1:34:35 Because for many years before becoming Pope, he was in charge of the congregation for the doctrine of faith. And now this Dicastery is a very important one because it's the former Inquisition. And from the 80s to 2005, it was in the hands of Ratzinger, who covered up a lot of these pedophilia cases until the point of really no return for the church. And it was thanks to all these cover-ups that the Jesuits were able to actually force him out of office ten years ago.
1:35:11 And this happened, as we all know, in February 2013 with his historic annunciation in Latin about abandoning his patron ministry. But Ratzinger was also involved in covering up cases of pedophilia during his time in in Saying that Ratzinger was a good man only because he was a traditionalist or a more conservative pope, well, that's not enough for me. Of course, the fact that they are not giving him a state funeral is in itself a scandal when you think that, for example, India gave a state funeral to Mother Teresa, who was a small Albanian nun, wasn't even an Indian. But we have also other things that regard,
1:36:11 course, Pope Ratzinger. Pope Ratzinger, like you cited in my article at the beginning of the show, was involved in this controversy that really isolated him for the last two years. In February 2020, he came out with a book with Cardinal Sarah that was really a critic of all the modernist, progressive approach of Pope Francis and also of the fact that they were really discussing the possibility of renouncing the celibacy for priest. And he was vehemently against all that. But this created a big problem back then. In fact, the actual secretary of Pope Ratzinger, who had always been like still maintained in the team of Pope Francis, Father Georg, was literally kicked out.
1:37:09 of the team, of Pope Francis' team. And at the same time, from February 2020, with the excuse of the pandemic, Pope Ratzinger was completely isolated. He wasn't, he was basically at house arrest, wasn't allowed to talk with anybody. And this book with Cardinal Sarra, he even went on record saying, oh, well, I didn't actually co-write it with him. He tried to renounce his position as co-writer of this book, but it was already too late. So that really infuriated Pope Francis, who apparently shouted
1:37:48 and was completely angry about this former Pope getting into the business of the church again. However, a lot of tradition is the thought that Ratzinger was also the real Pope, that Ratzinger in some way had sabotage the formalities of the elections of Pope Francis to, in a veiled manner, stay himself as the real papal figure. There is a lot of controversy about this. There has been various Vaticanists who have supported this theory.
1:38:29 But of course, now all these people who, these traditionalists who had thought they have a pope in the person of Ratzinger, now are very disappointed. And they will join in a way, say the vacantists, the Lefebvrians, the traditionalists that don't really believe in the Popes after the Second Vatican Council. But I repeat, Ratzinger wasn't one of those popes. Ratzinger was actually involved with also with a figure like John Paul II for many years. Then later on as a pope, he demonstrated that he wasn't bringing anything
1:39:07 new, if not following the path that was dictated by the Second Vatican Council, this reunion of the church that in the early, in the first part of the 60s changed the church. And there is also those people who accuse Pope Ratzinger, in those days he was still a young servant of the church, of having participated also to a black mass, the first black mass within St. Peter's Wall in the early 60s that went on during the Second Vatican Council. This was also an accusation that was in a bad way made by
1:39:49 of a mass, a funeral mass that is going on at 9.30 on the 5th of January. And this is very significant that there is no papal regalia adorning the body of Benedict. Instead, we have this red liturgical vestments. And this is not normal. And so you're explaining why Leo Zagami is with us, leozagami.com. We got to take a break.