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Wow. You never know what you will wake up to. I'm shocked. I knew his health was not the same as when he took office in 2005, and he was obviously more frail, but I guess I expected him to stick it out like Pope John Paul II as no Pope has resigned since 1415. I don't know if he feels he can't physically do it and that's it or if there is a health issue like cancer or Alzheimer's we don't know about, but wouldn't he have just come out and said if he was diagnosed with something as he is leaving anyway? He's leaving in a month which seems so soon.

I see it mentioned, but for those who have read the Saint Malachy prophecies, he is supposed to be the second to last Pope. Here is what was predicted about Benedict from Wiki:

111 Glory of the olive.

Benedict XVI (2005–2013)

Joseph Ratzinger

Chose the regnal name Benedict after St Benedict of Nursia, founder of the Benedictine Order. The order's crest contains an olive branch.

The next Pope prediction says:

Petrus Romanus, qui paſcet oues in multis tribulationibus: quibus tranſactis ciuitas ſepticollis diruetur, & Iudex tremẽdus iudicabit populum ſuum.[66] Finis.

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112 Peter the Roman, who will Nourish the sheep in many tribulations; when they are finished, the city of seven hills will be destroyed, and the dreadful judge will judge his people. The end.