Media say Pope may resign in April

A Non Biblical prophecy sign:  The last Pope, Petrus Romanus

So how many of you know of the prophecy of the last Pope?  Probably not many, would be our guess.  Seems an Irish Monk by the name of St. Malachy who lived close to 900 years ago had a vision of the final 112 Popes.  These Popes would head the Catholic Church from Malachy’s time to the last days.  The last Pope would be known as Peter the Roman, (Petrus Romanus) and would follow the current Pope, Benedict XVI.  This final Pope would see extreme Tribulations, the destruction of Rome and a dreadful Judge.

Well it’s interesting to note that the current Pope, Benedict XVI, may actually be thinking about retirement, (when was the last time a Pope actually retired?). 

A bunch of ifs here; What if Malachy’s prophecy were indeed true and what if Pope Benedict, (who is 85 by the way), does retire the spring of 2012?  Just another little hint that we are indeed in the last days perhaps?  Not biblical by any means, but interesting nonetheless.

From the article:

There is one front page news story that will certainly not go unnoticed: that is, that the Pope is thinking about resigning during the Spring of 2012. Journalist Antonio Socci has confirmed the same in the Italian daily, Libero.  "For now,” Socci writes, “he is saying that this may be true (Joseph Ratzinger’s personal assumption), but I hope the story does not reach the news. But this rumor is circulating high up in the Vatican and therefore deserves close attention. The Pope has not rejected the possibility of his resignation when he turns 85 in April next year.”   

Socci recalls that the assumption he will resign, without any hitches, was the same thing Ratzinger talked about in an interview in the book “Luce del mondo” (Light of the World), when, in response to a question by interviewer Peter Seewald, he said: “When a Pope arrives at a clear awareness that he no longer has the physical, mental, or psychological capacity to carry out the task that has been entrusted to him, then he has the right, and in some cases, even the duty to resign.” Furthermore, in another passage, Benedict XVI wondered if he would be able to “withstand it all, just from the physical point of view.”

Media say Pope may resign in April

http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/homepage/news/detail/articolo/papa-el-papa-pope-dimissioni-resignation-renuncia-8389/

Prophecy of St Malachy

http://www.catholic-pages.com/grabbag/malachy.asp