“Don’t know what you said, Mikey ... but it looks like Benedict has had too many conflicts and (implied) doesn’t want the job anymore”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/11/pope-resigns-live-reaction
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Another former Artane Industrial School inmate and co-founder of Irish Survivors of Child Abuse told the Guardian that he suspected Pope Benedict’s willingness to help the victims of clerical abuse had been thwarted by ultra conservative elements in the Vatican, and told Henry McDonald in Dublin:”
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One of the organisations representing victims of Catholic clergy in Ireland’s notorious orphanages and industrial schools said today that survivors would not miss Pope Benedict, reports Henry McDonald from Dublin.
Irish Survivors of Child Abuse said the outgoing pope had broken all his promises to offer them some semblance of justice for the crimes of priests and other members of religious orders in Ireland.
John Kelly, one of the founders of Irish Soca and a former inmate at Dublin’s notorious Artane Industrial School which was run by the Christian Brothers, said Pope Benedict had resisted their demands to properly investigate and in some instances disband religious orders tainted by sexual and physical abuse.”
curiouser and curiouser