So, this original munus/ministerium distinction that Ratzinger introduced was based off “anti-usurpation” legal mechanisms. Interesting. And he just so happened to “unintentionally” invoke such a mechanism by using the “wrong” word in the Latin declaration, a language he chose for his confidence in its accuracy.
Now, for the lynch pin, where all of this becomes too much to ignore.
In almost every language, munus and ministerium are both translated as a single word. In english, ministry. In Italian, ministerio. Only in German is there two corresponding translations for both. (As German anti usurpation laws were the model for this). “Munus” is “Amt,” and “ministerium” is “Dienst.”
So why is it, in the German translation of the document, the words are flipped?
https://popehead.substack.com/p/the-cionci-thesis-benedict-xvi-never