Someone please tell me again why this pope had to resign?
Did they ever give a real explanation for that? In retrospect it looks like he did what he was told so he could be allowed to live.
“Someone please tell me again why this pope had to resign?”
Maybe someday the true story will be known. For all we know, it was at gunpoint.
Old age, and because he did not a strong right hand to run the Church for him. He has been in relatively frail health for decades. He needed to fire a lot of people when he took over and he did not.
There have been claims and rumors of ugly things happening in the Vatican. Infighting and dividing into cliques. Some have said there is a network of gay priests exerting “inappropriate influence”. I don’t know how much of that to believe, but it sounds a little ominous.
“Someone please tell me again why this pope had to resign?”
That upset me when he did. Even more so with Francis as pope!
he was too ill, frail and tired