question Bertone’s integrity and honesty,
including a money-laundering scandal involving the Vatican Bank,
formerly known as the Institute for Works of Religion, or IOR.

In their role of directing the Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith, Cardinals Ratzinger and Bertone released for the fist time to the
public “The Third Secret of Fatima” at a press conference June 26,
2000.
In 2007, Bertone published a book, “The Last Secret of Fatima,” with a
foreword authored by Benedict XVI, defending the publicly released text
of “Third Secret” as the entire secret, arguing that in publishing the
text, the Catholic Church had withheld nothing.

“The Third Secret of Fatima” involves a highly controversial End
Times vision of an assassination attempt on a future pope that is
occasioned by moral corruption and lack of faith among the clergy.
Pope John Paul II believed OurLady of Fatima intervened to save his
life in the assassination attempt in St. Peter’s Square at Vatican City
on May 13, 1981, the anniversary of the first apparition of the Virgin
Mary to the three children of Fatima.

Socci and Ferrara contend the hidden text predicts catastrophes for
the Catholic Church and the world that involve End Days punishment by
God, leading to Jesus Christ returning to earth for Judgment Day.

Did Benedict XVI plan to resign in 2009?

Celestine V was the last pope to resign, in 1294, after only five
months in office. He was a hermit who was greatly revered for his
sanctity and his miracles.
On April 28, 2009, in a visit to view Celestine’s remains in the
badly damaged Santa Maria di Collemaggio after the disastrous 2009
L’Aquila earthquake, Pope Benedict XVI left the woolen