Pope Benedict XVI to resign February 28th

[joboo]

February 11, 2013

http://en.radiovaticana.va/articolo.asp?c=663815

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/11/world/...ion/?hpt=hp_t1


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The Vatican Radio website posted this statement from the Pope announcing his resignation from the papal office on Feb. 28:


Dear Brothers,

I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry.

I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the bark of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me.

For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is.

Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects. And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff. With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer.

From the Vatican, 10 February 2013
BENEDICTUS PP XVI
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[JohnQPublic]

Pope Benedict surprises world, steps down citing frailty

ROME (Reuters) - Pope Benedict surprised the world on Monday by saying he no longer had the mental and physical strength to cope with the demands of his ministry, becoming the first pontiff to step down since the Middle Ages and leaving his aides "incredulous"...

[JohnQPublic]

I have a bad feeling about this.

[sirgonzo420]

He's just making way for Petrus Romanus....

Where would religion be without prophecy?

[Dogman]

It could be that he is stepping down because he may feel that he does not have long wearing his mortal coil and he is stepping down now because he feels that it is best for the church?

Instead of staying in office until the last gasp, like most of his predecessors?

[EE_]

The next pope will be a Jewish...you heard it here first.

[Horn]

I thought a Pope had to be bed ridden to bequeath his legacy... now this guy must be trying to shake things up with the last minute retiring option.

He can't go back to being just a priest can he, Does the Pope have investments?

[sirgonzo420]

I thought a Pope had to be bed ridden to bequeath his legacy... now this guy must be trying to shake things up with the last minute retiring option.

He can't go back to being just a priest can he, Does the Pope have investments?

He has all kinds of vestments. I think his Saturn Hat is pretty spiffy.




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[Hermie]

He's old, he's tired, he's just too pooped to Pope...

[midnight rambler]

He has all kinds of vestments. I think his Saturn Hat is pretty spiffy.




http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-conten...aturn-hat1.jpg

Well there's your Saturn Death Cult stuff.