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[Hum]

Why is anyone 'shocked' ?

[1941]

http://www.foxnews.com/



http://www.foxnews.c...nt-will-resign/

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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.

More at the second link. First Pope to ever resign.

A video

http://video.foxnews.../2156410194001/

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jakem1, on 11 February 2013 - 12:00, said:

I bet this is related to his involvement in child abuse.

Maybe he saw your avatar and that was the final drop

"The pope's elder brother Georg Ratzinger, a frail 89-year-old priest who shares the pope's passion for music."

Maybe we'll see him next year in a duo with Steven Seagal at the MTV Music Awards.

[Tom]

[Steve B]

Intrinsica, on 11 February 2013 - 11:35, said:

I wonder who he sent his resignation letter to...

LMAO....that seriously just made my day. Thank you. =)

[BoredBozirini]

Not the first pope to have stepped down.

[episode]

Lieberman is a better Palpatine.

[John S.]

threads merged and cleaned

[seta-san]

is there any happening in the catholic church that you people don't attribute to pedophiles?

[jakem1]

Gary7, on 11 February 2013 - 16:15, said:

First Pope to ever resign.

Really?

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The Catholic Encyclopedia notes the historically obscure resignations of Pope Pontian^[6] (230-235) and Pope Marcellinus (296-308), the historically postulated resignation of Pope Liberius (352-366),^[3] and that one (unspecified) catalogue of popes lists Pope John XVIII as resigning office in 1009 and ending his life as a monk.^[7][8]

The first historically unquestionable^[3] Papal resignation is that of Pope Benedict IX in 1045. In order to rid the Church of the scandalous Benedict, Pope Gregory VI gave Benedict "valuable possessions"^[3] to resign the papacy in his favour.^[9] Gregory himself resigned in 1046 because the arrangement he had entered into with Benedict was considered simony. Gregory's successor, Pope Clement II, died in 1047 and Benedict IX became Pope again.

The best-known resignation of a Pope is that of Pope Celestine V in 1294. After only five months of pontificate, he issued a solemn decree declaring it permissible for a Pope to resign, and then did so himself. He lived two more years as a hermit and then prisoner of his successor Pope Boniface VIII and was later canonised. Celestine's decree, and that of Boniface concurring, ended any doubt among canonists about the possibility of a valid Papal resignation.^[10]

Pope Gregory XII (1406-1415) resigned in 1415 in order to end the Western Schism, which had reached the point where there were three claimants to the Papal throne: Roman Pope Gregory XII, Avignon Antipope Benedict XIII, and Pisan Antipope John XXIII. Before resigning he formally convened the already existing Council of Constance and authorized it to elect his successor.

http://en.wikipedia....gnation#History

[seta-san]

p.s.

the next pope isn't going to like gays either.

[HawkMan]

and he'll be perfectly fine to not like whoever he doesn't want to.

[seta-san]

HawkMan, on 11 February 2013 - 18:40, said:

and he'll be perfectly fine to not like whoever he doesn't want to.

and he's going to instruct a billion + people to do and vote the same.

[TPreston]

seta-san, on 11 February 2013 - 18:43, said:

and he's going to instruct a billion + people to do and vote the same.

In the same way he instructs his followers never ever to use condoms

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TPreston, on 11 February 2013 - 18:47, said:

In the same way he instructs his followers never ever to use condoms

Exactly. "Yeah, don't use a condom. It's against God and religion. Keep on spreading disease, it doesn't matter. You will be saved by God and the Church." - What an idiot.