You have no idea why Benedict resigned but you equate his resignation with a father going “out for a pack of cigarettes and never (coming) back, leaving his children to the abuses of a degenerate step-father”.
I don’t feel well today and, thankfully, I caught myself before posting a now-deleted comment.
May you never suffer through being judged so harshly as you’ve judged Pope Benedict.
“...May you never suffer through being judged so harshly as you’ve judged Pope Benedict.”
I loved and respected Benedict and felt he was the right man for the Church, and the world, to rally around in these increasingly demonic times. And he walked...
I have and will continue to pray for God to show mercy on him, but I have a deep and abiding anger over what he did. Pray for him, and me, because I know I need to forgive him to be able to ask for forgiveness for myself and I am failing badly on this one.