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Pope Benedict XVI 'is to resign'
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Posted on 02/11/2013 3:11:37 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Pope Benedict XVI 'is to resign' Breaking news

The Pope is to resign at the end of this month in an entirely unexpected development, reports from the Vatican say.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2010christmasaddress; bxvi; elderly; papacy; pedophilia; petrusromanus; pontiff; pope; popebenedict; popeonpedophilia; poperesigns; popes; resignation; sexualabuse; vatican
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To: Cato in PA

ahem.....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1351430/posts


41 posted on 02/11/2013 3:50:18 AM PST by sunmars
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To: Tax-chick
"I wonder if he’s been diagnosed with something that’s going to be terminal, quickly."

That was my first thought as soon as I heard the announcement.

42 posted on 02/11/2013 3:50:36 AM PST by circlecity
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To: momtothree

First Pope to resign the office in 600 years, from what I’ve read.

That’s the first one in anyone’s lifetime. Unless you’re of the MacLeod clan.


43 posted on 02/11/2013 3:52:08 AM PST by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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To: djf

“Dam! I really was hoping the end of the world as we know it wasn’t coming this year...”

If you look at it as the beginning of the new world rather than the end of the current one it isn’t as frightening.


44 posted on 02/11/2013 3:52:45 AM PST by Josephat
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To: djf

Yep...just went a googling.

So...now we wait to see if Saint Hildegard and the comet are true... http://earthsky.org/space/asteroid-2012-da14-will-pass-very-close-to-earth-in-2013


45 posted on 02/11/2013 3:52:51 AM PST by EBH ( The 2nd Amendment exists for times like this.)
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To: advance_copy
NBC reported that the last pope to resign was in the year 1415.

If true, that was Gregory XII who was one of three popes. He resigned essentially so there could be one pope. (so sayeth google)

46 posted on 02/11/2013 3:52:57 AM PST by palmer (Obama = Carter + affirmative action)
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

“Unless you’re of the MacLeod clan”

There can be only one!


47 posted on 02/11/2013 3:53:34 AM PST by momtothree
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To: BigCinBigD

Arrogance and atheism are made for each other.


48 posted on 02/11/2013 3:54:19 AM PST by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: Sub-Driver

Maybe he wants to make sure he gets a decent successor.


49 posted on 02/11/2013 3:56:07 AM PST by cartan
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To: golux

Former Popes usually join monasteries.


50 posted on 02/11/2013 3:56:48 AM PST by agere_contra (I once saw a movie where only the police and military had guns. It was called 'Schindler's List'.)
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To: EBH

No. Not at all. Just the opposite. I think he wants to avoid a repeat of what happened with JP2. I adore Pope Benedict, and I’m sad to see him resign, but I have to believe that he has prayerfully asked for guidance from the Holy Spirit.


51 posted on 02/11/2013 3:57:22 AM PST by Aggie Mama
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To: momtothree

LOL.

Popes with swords! Run for the hills!!


52 posted on 02/11/2013 3:58:34 AM PST by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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To: EBH

Three days of darkness, the chastisement, etc.

But that means the great Monarch has already happened (if I remember right). Who would that be?


53 posted on 02/11/2013 4:04:06 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Perdogg

Edward Caycey named all the Popes in order up through John Paul. He then indicated one more (and last) Pope after that.


54 posted on 02/11/2013 4:04:28 AM PST by bluecat6 ("All non-denial denials. They doubt our ancestry, but they don't say the story isn't accurate. ")
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To: Biggirl; sunmars

His brother in a statement confirms the Pope’s bad health as the reason, saying “Das Alter drückt”, i.e. that the pressure of his age has caught up with him.

Of course one can speculate: Is it cancer? Does he know / feel that he will die soon? Or has it just been opportune timing to best position the successor he has in mind?

Many expected JPII to resign because of health and there were sound reasons to do so (with all the insecurity a moribund Pope causes for the leadership of the church). He chose not to do so in order to set an example. Ratzinger was a close ally of JPII and his role was crucial during the time of JPII’s illness. I think both decisions deserve respect. Albeit for different reasons (to show that illness and death is a natural part of live - vs. - to show that the office and the church are bigger than any one men).


55 posted on 02/11/2013 4:06:21 AM PST by wolf78 (Inflation is a form of taxation, too. Cranky Libertarian - equal opportunity offender.)
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To: Biggirl

The last pope to resign was Gregory XII in 1415.


56 posted on 02/11/2013 4:07:13 AM PST by Perdogg (Mark Levin - It's called the Bill of Rights not Bill of Needs)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Pope resigns - news at XI


57 posted on 02/11/2013 4:08:07 AM PST by Perdogg (Mark Levin - It's called the Bill of Rights not Bill of Needs)
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To: Sub-Driver

“Amen I say to you, when you were young, you dressed yourself and went where you wished. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands and another will dress you, and lead you where you do not want to go.” (John 21:18)


58 posted on 02/11/2013 4:11:33 AM PST by paterfamilias
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To: SoFloFreeper

I’m not a Catholic, but I agree.

Benedict was a conservative, and good for pro-life Catholics.


59 posted on 02/11/2013 4:12:38 AM PST by Mrs.Z
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To: EBH

“So...now we wait to see if Saint Hildegard and the comet are true...”

Can you fill in some details for us Protestants?


60 posted on 02/11/2013 4:13:57 AM PST by PastorBooks
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