Pope Benedict 'Resigns' - Reports

[daveza]

http://news.sky.com/story/1050513/pope-benedict-resigns-reports

Pope Benedict XVI is to resign on February 28, the Vatican has announced.

More follows...

Another round of blowing smoke.

 

[ponder]

Another round of blowing smoke.

and fondling little boys

 

[blunomore]

Wonder why?

 

[twicode]

I thought only God can resign the pope.

 

[LazyLion]

Reuters Top News ‏@Reuters

Pope Benedict says he is unable to continue in office due to advanced age, resigning in full freedom #BREAKING

 

[Ninja'd]

My vote goes to Jeremy Irons.

 

[murraybiscuit]

I thought only God can resign the pope.

I would have thought so too.
Get ready for a rumourfest.

 

[b_crazy]

Shouldn't have joined twitter. It has scrambled his brain.

 

[AlmightyBender]

Reuters Top News ‏@Reuters

Pope Benedict says he is unable to continue in office due to advanced age, resigning in full freedom #BREAKING

Hmm that never stopped any of his predecessors (aka fondlers) before

 

[APoc184]

Reuters Top News ‏@Reuters

Pope Benedict says he is unable to continue in office due to advanced age, resigning in full freedom #BREAKING

If it is anything like Advanced Maths.... he has my sympathy...

 

[daveza]

http://news.sky.com/story/1050513/pope-benedict-resigns-vatican-confirms

Pope Benedict XVI is to resign on February 28, the Vatican has announced.

He will be the first head of the Catholic Church to resign in almost 600 years. The Vatican said his departure would leave the post temporarily vacant.

Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said: "The pope announced that he will leave his ministry at 8:00pm (7pm UK time) on February 28."

He will step down after almost eight years in the post, having been elected in April 2005.

The final post on his Twitter page, sent on Sunday, said: "We must trust in the mighty power of God's mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us new."

Edward Pentin, from the Catholic Herald, told Sky News: "It really is too early to say what his greatest achievement has been."

We are all sinners.... revelations on the way ?

 

[APoc184]

Shouldn't have joined twitter. It has scrambled his brain.

This Tweet was out soon after the news broke:

The Pope is hardly the first person to lose interest in their real job so soon after joining Twitter.

 

[daveza]

The Pope is hardly the first person to lose interest in their real job so soon after joining Twitter.

The ancyl should have shut it down.

 

[ShaunSA]

Wonder what scandal lies behind this story.

 

[LazyLion]

Hmm that never stopped any of his predecessors (aka fondlers) before

Um, I'm pretty sure they are all dead now.

You see... that's the thing about advanced age.... it's pretty fatal.

 

[AlmightyBender]

Um, I'm pretty sure they are all dead now.

You see... that's the thing about advanced age.... it's pretty fatal.

Lol I meant old age never stopped them from believing that they were "alive" enough to be Pope

 

[binkybozo]

Wonder what scandal lies behind this story.

That is what I am thinking. The last pope to volunteer to step down was in something like 1294. Illness and old age has never stopped any of the rest from stepping down. They die in office, they don't step down.

 

[abandonallhope]

the thing about advanced age.... it's pretty fatal.

ok. so as soon as you get old you die ?

makes sense

 

[daveza]

The 85-year-old pope announced his decision in Latin during a meeting of Vatican cardinals on Monday morning.

He said that because of his advanced age and diminishing strength, he didn't feel he could carry on the job.

"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," he said according to a statement from the Vatican.

They seriously still have meetings in Latin ?

 

[murraybiscuit]

The last pope to volunteer to step down was in something like 1294.

Thanks for that factoid.