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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: BigCinBigD

No...that was not “ok”.


21 posted on 02/11/2013 3:33:53 AM PST by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: Sub-Driver

So what does a healthy Pope do when he retires? Move to The Villages in Fla and take up golf?


22 posted on 02/11/2013 3:33:53 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Jab her with a harpoon or just throw her from the train......)
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To: sunmars

He could very well be having health issues that we do not know of, who knows.


23 posted on 02/11/2013 3:34:20 AM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Has anyone consulted Father Guido Sarducci on this matter ?


24 posted on 02/11/2013 3:34:47 AM PST by Einherjar
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To: Biggirl

British TV is saying the vatican has said it is because of ill health.


25 posted on 02/11/2013 3:36:08 AM PST by sunmars
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To: sunmars

I wonder if he’s been diagnosed with something that’s going to be terminal, quickly.


26 posted on 02/11/2013 3:36:28 AM PST by Tax-chick (I have chocolate.)
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To: BigCinBigD
Did he finally realize he's been talking to himself for Eighty years?
Pope's New Book Debuts as New York Times Bestseller
27 posted on 02/11/2013 3:37:17 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (If you want to ring the bell - you got to swing the hammer hard!)
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To: Hot Tabasco

*chortle*

My parents live in The Villages.


28 posted on 02/11/2013 3:37:27 AM PST by Tax-chick (I have chocolate.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I do not recall one every resigning in my lifetime. It just isn’t usually done. I am leaning towards a progressive disease that robs him of his mental facilities like Alzheimers. (vs a disease that he would die from within a shorter period of time like cancer).


29 posted on 02/11/2013 3:38:26 AM PST by momtothree
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To: Tax-chick

or debilitating like alzheimers or the like meaning competency problems. He is 84. Could be anything.


30 posted on 02/11/2013 3:38:33 AM PST by sunmars
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To: sunmars

Don’t tell Obama that the job is open.


31 posted on 02/11/2013 3:39:40 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: Sub-Driver

Wow. What must it be like to replace a resigned Holy Father? And might there be secret reasons for Der PanzerKardinal’s announcement? And what exactly does one do as a “former” Pope? Do Oprah? Hang out with Lance Armstrong? Market a private-label cheese? Judge America’s Got Talent?


32 posted on 02/11/2013 3:41:43 AM PST by golux
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Obama already thinks the pope reports to him.


33 posted on 02/11/2013 3:41:52 AM PST by Mouton (108th MI Group.....68-71)
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To: Sub-Driver

Stunning.

Is he not, according to the Malachi Martin prophecy, the last Pope before the final one, Petrus Romanus?

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


34 posted on 02/11/2013 3:42:53 AM PST by djf (Conservative values help the poor. Liberal values help them STAY poor!!!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Yours is the first I’ve seen but I look for the same thing to be posted in “breaking news” at least 20 times in the next few days. “Pope to resign!”


35 posted on 02/11/2013 3:43:44 AM PST by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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To: Sub-Driver

That leaves...Petrus Romanus.


36 posted on 02/11/2013 3:44:10 AM PST by Cato in PA (Land of the free and the home of the brave? Wrong on both counts.)
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To: Sub-Driver

This is a shame; God help him. He will be missed...


37 posted on 02/11/2013 3:45:17 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Sub-Driver

Joseph Ratzinger to retire?


38 posted on 02/11/2013 3:47:17 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Isn’t there something about the “last pope” and end times?


39 posted on 02/11/2013 3:49:23 AM PST by Perdogg (Mark Levin - It's called the Bill of Rights not Bill of Needs)
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To: Sub-Driver

Tears, so many tears... we love you, Papa...


40 posted on 02/11/2013 3:49:50 AM PST by mlizzy (If people spent an hour a week in Eucharistic adoration, abortion would be ended. --Mother Teresa)
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