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.
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A holiday for the pedophilia obsessed, which crime they would never connect to their own high tolerance for what they like to call “gaiety”. Next, we’ll have a holiday for the “racism” obsessed, though I’ve always suspected those are the same compulsive obsessives.
No one ever discloses their own prejudices, like the Joe Paterno Fan Club members in yesterday’s thread pretending to objectively examine the evidence against their hero.
Here, we have on display hatred of the Pope by the Holy Rollers and other fans of the money grubbing TV preachers.
You’ll never get that concurrence on FR.
Too many pedophile clergy apologists here...
I just think there has to be more. No big conspiracy theory. But these guys (the Popes) and the definition of hard core true believers. They just don’t walk away.
“I’ve been a life-long Lutheran with pastors in the family”
Just curious. Why would you want to be “catholc-light” when you can be the real thing. Lutherans services are almost identical to a Catholic mass. The fullness of the christian faith can only be found in the Catholic Church. My RCIA leader was a former Lutheran who converted to the Catholic faith. The deacon in my church used to be Lutheran.
#355. Rivero, likely a Catholic, judging by his name, oughta have some insider knowledge on the matter.
“I can’t believe all the disrespect and jokes from FR”...
I can’t believe it either. I havent signed on for awhile and thought maybe I was on the wrong site. Oh well, just part of the prophecy and the times we live in.
“The deacon in my church used to be Lutheran.”
:-) My husband used to be Catholic. He went to Catholic grade school, but, to the horror of his priest, attended the nearby Lutheran college where I met him. Now my husband is Lutheran. It fits better with his beliefs.
“The fullness of the christian faith can only be found in the Catholic Church.”
No, I’ll just have to disagree with you on that. However, I will not put down the Catholic faith. There are many fine priests and many fine Catholics, just as there are many fine pastors and many fine Lutherans. God be with you!
It’s just a handful of loud, obnoxious ones. It just seems like there are more.
All jokes aside, my hunch is that the pope may have recently received some bad medical news to the effect that his faculties will rapidly fail him.
There’s nothing cowardly, irresponsible or even unspiritual about a pope using his God-given intelligence, wisdom and discernment to reach the conclusion that his declining abilities would place an unfair burden on the church, particularly so soon after JPII’s difficult final years.
He decided that the best course of action was to leave while he was still in control of own decision-making process. For that he should be commended.
In doing so, he has taught a valuable lesson about pride versus humility.
And it takes a humble man to be able to walk away from a position like the papacy.
I’m so sad.
Praying.
Fore!
Now you’re just embarrassing yourself.
You hateful dumbass.
Gosh, I hope to GOD this will at least show Alex Jones for what he is.
A lying, money hungry psycho. He’s the fuel behind the Paultards wacko theories.
Let them try. “Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I shall build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
http://prophecyofthepopes.com/
Petrus Romanus. Excellent book. Showing the Pope after Benedict will be The Last Pope.
I agree with all you said. None of us have ever seen this happen before in our lives so it is unusual.
The principal responsibility for the Lawrence Miller sexual-abuse case lay with the disgustingly negligent local Ordinary, Archbishop Rembert Weakland. Leaving the accused abuser priest supposedly "without assignment," and likewise without supervision from 1977 until 1996, and neglecting any effort to discover the scope of his abuses or to minister to his victims, Weakland essentially did nothing.
It was not until 1996 (19 years after Fr. Murphy was put out of circulation on "sick leave") that Weakland first notified Cardinal Ratzinger’s Vatican office, which promptly moved forward on having a canonical trial. Neither Ratzinger nor anyone in his office in any way impeded the local process. In fact, Card. Ratzinger’s Deputy, Cardinal Narciso Bertone, tried in every way to expedite the process, despite the huge gap created by Abp Weakland's negligence and the statute of limitations.
Fr. Murphy died in 1998, before a canonical trial could take place.
The real fault here, as I read the facts, was with the appalling Archbishop Weakland, who was notoriously derelict in his duties.
But because the Associated Press, the New York Times, and the MSM in general cannot lodge fault with Weakland ---who, as a “progressive,” a payoff-paying gay prelate himself, and a longtime enabler/protector of defiant anti-papal dissenters, was immune from all criticism --- there was a concerted, international effort to find some way to drag in Pope Benedict.
What the New York Times was churning out 2 1/2 years ago --- and repeated here by certain parties --- was vicious, prejudicial, and (it seems to me) probably legally libelous. The “Queen of Slander” herself in this game was Maureen Dowd, whose comments were echoed by well-known individuals disgracing the opinion-forums.
However, there may be lurkers still reading: it is for your sake, lurkers, that I offer the true account of the case.
Interesting. In the “prophecy” it talks about the pope being from the Benedictine Order. Is Pope Benedict from that order (and hence his name)? I searched on Wiki but no mention of that - see that he was born in Bavaria.
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