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He is not strong enough to deal with the Tsunami.

The Catholic Church is entangled in a Vatican Bank Scandal that is growing worse.

Tourists couldn’t even use credit cards at the Vatican in January. Don’t know if that has been resolved yet.

The Child Molesting scandal is growing worse - now Mahony , one of the most powerful Catholic leaders in the US has been stripped of his duties

And the Pope is fighting an internal power struggle.

Too much for the guy who didn’t even want the job.

He has been forced out over the Vatican Bank scandal.

"The pope had apparently tasked the financial executive with making the Vatican bank more transparent. But by approaching his task with perhaps an excess of zeal Gotti Tedeschi upset powerful forces within the Roman Curia, the Vatican's administrative and judicial apparatus. Several high-ranking officials within the Curia viewed the bank, officially known as the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), as something akin to a trust company for clandestine monetary transactions that is not only used by the Church, but allegedly also by the mafia as well as corrupt politicians and companies. In one of the seized Gotti Tedeschi memos, he wrote: "I've seen things in the Vatican that scare me."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/a-growing-vatican-bank-scandal-threatens-catholic-church-image-a-842140.html

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It's bad when JP Morgan cuts you loose

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/06/26/the-vatican-bank-the-most-secret-bank-in-the-world/
"This past March, JP Morgan Chase closed a Vatican account in Milan after the IOR was “unable to respond” to questionable money transfers, according to Italy’s leading financial newspaper"

You forget that this Pope is in his 80’s when one is in one’s 80’s, you are very much thankful to be ALIVE. It could very well be health issues plus the stress of all the struggles mentioned.