> pope benedict was the last pope and was trying to stop them that's why he was forced to retire. this is correct.  > on may 17, i published an article in the italian newspaper la verit about pope benedicts abdication. a few days before, in a renowned italian geopolitical magazine called limes, professor germano dottori had argued that joseph ratzingers 2013 abdication, and the former italian prime minister silvio berlusconis resignation in 2011, after a financial storm sold to public opinion as a public debt crisis, were the result of pressures on the part of obama administration in the united states. > according to dottori, obama was eager to dethrone benedict xvi for two reasons. on the one hand, his presidency was close to fundamentalist islam (de facto fostered by regime change in libya and egypt and civil war in syria, provoked by u.s. former secretary of state hillary clintons foreign policy design), whereas ratzinger, ever since his famous regensburg lecture, had been identified internationally as a strong opponent of islamism. on the other hand, obama was worried about the churchs reconciliatory efforts toward moscows orthodox patriarch, within the scope  dottori wrote  of a geopolitical project aimed at european-russian integration, actively supported by germany and italy.   campaign-s-anti-catholic-emails-wil l-catholic-voters-react/   dex.php/articles/item/3001-did-vati can-attempt-to-influence-u-s-electi on-catholics-ask-trump-administrati on-to-investigate   dict-abdication/
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