Pope Benedict XVI to Resign

[Notre Dame Joe]

http://news.yahoo.com/pope-resigns-saying-no-longer-strength-fulfill-ministry-112923467.html

 

Gary Barnett has removed his name from consideration.

[HuskerfaninOkieland]

Let the Pope Benedict and Manti T'eo jokes commence

[Junior]

Good work, Carlfense. I'd like to think we had something to do with this...

[B.B. Hemingway]

Nazi....

 

[Ulty]

He's going the Sarah Palin route. Resign and then take a job with Fox News. Also has his own reality show in the works. Mo' money.

[Conga3]

Pope Benedict XVI is to resign at the end of this month after nearly eight years as the head of the Catholic Church, saying he is too old to continue at the age of 85.

 

Here and I thought 85 was the new 75.... but I guess not. It's still 85.

[carlfense]

hmmmmm . . .

[GM_Tood]

$100 on Cardinal Scola at 7/1

[Husker_x]

The first instance of a pope retiring in six hundred years.

 

Yeah, I'm sure this has nothing to do with the international child rape and torture scandal. He just got old, unlike his predecessor.

[carlfense]

For those unfamiliar with the Pope's . . . reputation?

 

Very much more serious is the role of Joseph Ratzinger, before the church decided to make him supreme leader, in obstructing justice on a global scale. After his promotion to cardinal, he was put in charge of the so-called "Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith" (formerly known as the Inquisition). In 2001, Pope John Paul II placed this department in charge of the investigation of child rape and torture by Catholic priests. In May of that year, Ratzinger issued a confidential letter to every bishop. In it, he reminded them of the extreme gravity of a certain crime. But that crime was the reporting of the rape and torture. The accusations, intoned Ratzinger, were only treatable within the church's own exclusive jurisdiction. Any sharing of the evidence with legal authorities or the press was utterly forbidden. Charges were to be investigated "in the most secretive way ... restrained by a perpetual silence ... and everyone ... is to observe the strictest secret which is commonly regarded as a secret of the Holy Office … under the penalty of excommunication."

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2010/03/the_great_catholic_coverup.html

[beanman]

Good work, Carlfense. I'd like to think we had something to do with this...

 

que?

[carlfense]

Good work, Carlfense. I'd like to think we had something to do with this...

que?

I think that Junior is referencing the Maxima Mea Culpa thread . . .

[Junior]

Good work, Carlfense. I'd like to think we had something to do with this...

que?

I think that Junior is referencing the Maxima Mea Culpa thread . . .

 

Yes indeed.

 

Also, my favorite line from the Slate article:

Nobody has yet been excommunicated for the rape and torture of children, but exposing the offense could get you into serious trouble. And this is the church that warns us against moral relativism!

[knapplc]

I've heard of giving things up for Lent, but the Pope is really taking this to extremes.

[Notre Dame Joe]

It's a pavlovian reaciton to hear Catholic and reply PEDOPHILIA. We deserve that one. But Benedict was very proactive instead of reactive regarding the scandal that he inherited and the victims are in a much better situation in 2013 than when he started in 2005.