[Verginius Rufus]

If the rumors are true that Obama blackmailed Pope Benedict into retiring, it may have been largely over his efforts to deal with the homosexual abuse scandal.

[cloudmountain]

If the rumors are true that Obama blackmailed Pope Benedict into retiring, it may have been largely over his efforts to deal with the homosexual abuse scandal.

Pope Benedict was described by the Catholic Church, world media, even by the sometimes nasty, anti-Catholic German press (northern Germany) as a man

***with a TOWERING intellect and
***a backbone of tempered steel.

They didn't call him the PANZER POPE for nothing.

[Antoninus]

If the rumors are true that Obama blackmailed Pope Benedict into retiring, it may have been largely over his efforts to deal with the homosexual abuse scandal.

It's much more likely that Benedict XVI realized that he was completely surrounded by homosexual pedophiles who reported directly to Obama, not him.