el papa benedicto to resign,1st time in 5 centuries,more news as it comes in Mick O'Toon from the Vatican http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/pope-benedict-to-resign-reports-584358.html
That is dodgy as **** Even the Medici popes and Innocent X clung on til they died. Either, the auld **** realises he's doing his church more harm than good or someone has some serious muck on him. I'm intrigued.
Whatever it is has got to be serious - it's in the middle of Lent So, it's possible that a new pope's first assignment will be the Easter Address which is probably his most important "job" of the year. I'm going with evidence of his first tug being over a picture of Himmler.
Perhaps he is not well. There doesn't always need to be a sordid reason behind things. Try to look on the brighter side of life, people.
Dear Brothers, I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry. I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the bark of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me. For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is. Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects. And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff. With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer. From the Vatican, 10 February 2013 BENEDICTUS PP XVI
Why don't they just give him the special cocoa if they want shot of him? That's whit normally happens.
Savilesque scandal incoming. I wonder if the next one will be whiter than white, or maybe they'll go with a black chap this time.
11/2 Closet hun, wants to start again at alter boy level and work his way back up making friends along the way.
Like the American presidency, a black man will get it before any sort of woman. I'd quite like a Popess. A do-able Popess. A do-able black Popess with a big pummel-worthy ass filling the cassocks right up. I have thought of a worthwhile ambition for life. I want to be the first person to sodomise the first female pope
