Truth be told: Henry Kissinger is not an advisor to Pope Benedict XVI | War On You: Breaking Alternative News
I’d like to examine an issue which needs to be addressed. As a lifelong Catholic, I respect the teaching of the Church and the authority of it’s leader the Pope, who serves as the Vicar of Christ. This does not mean we blindly go along with everything he says. The Pope has authority as the leader of the Church and is considered infallible on matters of faith and morals. The issue at hand here is the Pope’s purported relationship with Henry Kissinger, with one initial report from 2006 claiming that Kissinger had been invited by the Pope to become a “political advisor”.
Up until recently, I believed this to be the case and was bothered by it, as it had been reported in ‘the news’, repeated ad infinitum and accepted as factual across the internet for over three years. However, a simple search will reveal that this initial story, which was unreliable at best to begin with, was factually discredited by the Vatican in 2006 after the original claim was made by the Italian newspaper La Stampa.
The original claim was reported in the United States on 11/22/06 by the National Catholic Register in an article by Edward Pentin titled ‘Kissinger to Serve As Papal Adviser? Pope Benedict XVI has invited Henry Kissinger, former adviser to Richard Nixon, to be a political consultant and he accepted’.
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