BOMBSHELL, TRULY A BOMBSHELL, NO HYPERBOLE HERE, POPE EMERITUS BENEDICT XVI WILL ISSUE THE NEXT ENCYLICAL ON FAITH TO WHICH POPE FRANCIS WILL ATTACH HIS SIGNATURE!

BOMBSHELL, BOMBSHELL! BOMBSHELL! POPE FRANCIS READ THROUGH POPE BENEDICT!

I have no reason to doubt the veracity of Rorate Caeli's post this morning which I copy and post myself, for it is truly an historic bombshell to say the least, in the entire history of the Catholic Church!

Relevant: Benedict XVI finishing the encyclical on Faith to be signed by Pope Francis

New encyclical on the poor: "Beati Pauperes"?

Following his recent visit ad limina with the bishops of his region, the Bishop of Molfetta (Apulia, Italy), Luigi Martella, spoke of the conversation they had with the new Pope, including the following:

Then, he spoke to us about Benedict XVI with such tenderness: "When I met him for the first time in Castelgandolfo, I noticed that he had a very lucid memory - he said -, even though physically challenged. Now he is clearly better." In the end, he wished to exhange a confidence, almost a revelation: Benedict XVI is finishing writing the encyclical on faith that will be signed by Pope Francis. Then, he will himself prepare his first encyclical on the poor: Beati pauperes! [Rorate note: 'Blessed are the poor,' he seems to be implying that could be the name of this second encyclical letter.] Poverty - he made clear - understood not in an ideological and political sense, but in en evangelical sense.


Source: Official website of the Diocese of Molfetta; tip: Secretum meum mihi (in Spanish, cf. our sidebar).