A pope stepping down hasn’t happened in my lifetime. How did they get Benedict to resign so they could get this guy in?
“A pope stepping down hasn’t happened in my lifetime. How did they get Benedict to resign so they could get this guy in?”
Actually it’s been about 600 years since the last papal abdication. That said, Benedict opined even before his election that he thought Popes should consider stepping down when they reach a certain point in age and or health. He pointed out that modern medicine can keep people alive far longer than previously imaginable. But often alive does not mean fully functional. John Paul II was the classic example. As his health precipitously declined over the last years of his life, the Roman Church was effectively left without a leader even as modern medicine kept him breathing. Just a few decades ago this would not have been a problem. Someone as ill as John Paul was would simply have died.
Times have changed.
Your lifetime? It has been 500 years since the last pope resigned.
I think that there are some seriously EVIL people who forced Benedict out.
I am appalled by the "leader" of the church of my birth.
Francis is a disgrace. Not a pope.
He's a politician.