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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: Sub-Driver

The Joe Paterno of the Vatican...


81 posted on 02/11/2013 4:41:06 AM PST by TSgt (The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.)
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To: EBH

You took that out of context- he says he is old and/or sick in the same question.


82 posted on 02/11/2013 4:42:51 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: hosepipe
could be wisdom

I find it extremely odd for any pope to leave right before Easter, the most important celebration of the Catholic Church. It's so important that I would have expected Benedict to try and stick it out.

Now it's more than likely that there will be no pope in office for the Easter Blessing.

83 posted on 02/11/2013 4:48:08 AM PST by LoveUSA (God employs Man's strength; Satan exploits Man's weakness.)
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To: TSgt

Ha ha


84 posted on 02/11/2013 4:48:48 AM PST by LadyEleanor (How Do I change my tagline?)
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To: Sub-Driver

BookMark


85 posted on 02/11/2013 4:49:50 AM PST by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: momtothree

Has there ever been a Papal abdication that was voluntary?


86 posted on 02/11/2013 4:50:40 AM PST by AU72
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To: TSgt

You’re still an idiot.


87 posted on 02/11/2013 4:50:40 AM PST by vladimir998
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To: PghBaldy
Or, he watched the Grammy Awards last night, and realized that all hope is indeed lost..

At least he didn't Tweet the announcement..

88 posted on 02/11/2013 4:51:05 AM PST by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
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To: jsanders2001

I have always thought the anti-Christ would be far more intelligent than Obama, in order to deceive so many people. But it has been shown, instead, that the people are much more stupid and wicked than I gave them credit for.


89 posted on 02/11/2013 4:51:32 AM PST by Arthur McGowan (If you're FOR sticking scissors in a baby girl's neck and sucking out her brains, you are PRO-WOMAN!)
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To: LoveUSA

Easter is March 31st, they could have all the cardinals in Rome ready to go on March 1st, they have enough warning to be there and get on with it, there will no appetite for slowing things down, maybe thats Benedicts thought, make sure they get on with it and don’t drag it out, force them to get on with it.

It took 19 days from death of john paul til Benedict got elected but that included the death and mourning period too, so they should be ready to go by easter no problems.


90 posted on 02/11/2013 4:52:38 AM PST by sunmars
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

What about Cardinal Arinze?


91 posted on 02/11/2013 4:54:18 AM PST by PatriotGirl827 (O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee)
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To: circlecity

If he were going to die soon, I don’t think he’d resign.


92 posted on 02/11/2013 4:56:18 AM PST by Arthur McGowan (If you're FOR sticking scissors in a baby girl's neck and sucking out her brains, you are PRO-WOMAN!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Two weeks notice.

Enough time to get the Cardinals together and provide for an orderly succession.

Poor Baraq! He has been upstaged.

93 posted on 02/11/2013 4:56:40 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: LadyEleanor; TSgt

You two stay classy.


96 posted on 02/11/2013 4:58:26 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Preston Manning
Is it too early/ghoulish to put in a plug for Canada’s Cardinal Ouellet?

Nothing ghoulish about it, since Pope Benedict hasn't said that he's about to die.

Btw, I think Cdl. Ouellet has a lot of good qualities.

97 posted on 02/11/2013 4:58:29 AM PST by Tax-chick (I have chocolate.)
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To: Arthur McGowan

maybe i’m cynical but popes don’t resign or go and resign, they die, who knows, maybe he’s sick ,maybe he got the warning of “you’re leaving one way or another, you decide”. Its Not like Popes have not been bumped off before.


98 posted on 02/11/2013 4:58:39 AM PST by sunmars
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To: Sub-Driver

Hope he’s not ill. May God grant him a blessed, and long, retirement.


99 posted on 02/11/2013 4:59:43 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Sub-Driver

Looks like he’s just simply too pooped to Pope.


100 posted on 02/11/2013 5:00:18 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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