Pope to Resign - Popewatch 2013
Pope Benedict XVI will resign on Feb. 28, the Vatican says.
In a statement posted on Vatican Radio's website, the 85-year-old Pope said his health was the reason the surprise announcement.
"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," the Pope said.
Benedict said his strength, over 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."
The resignation means there will be no Pope until a successor is picked, the Vatican said.
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Edited at 2013-02-11 01:43 pm (UTC)
Whats wrong with plainer looking boys?
its cute and all but I like that the show is quite relatable and this just...doesnt happen. Am I just bitter?
He was practically a folding chair at the end.
Kicked the bucket, shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleeding choir invisible.
feel free to send ideas
Oh no, the chimney signals...I forgot about that and how CNN droned on and on about them. The Pope has a twitter now, can't they just send a blast out through that to speed stuff along? LOL
IDK about you guys, but I'm ready for another doomsday
If the world doesn't end: Yay more mass hysteria over nothing to entertain me
If the world does end: We kind of deserve it anway
BRB, fetching the tinned food I hoarded for the Mayan apocalypse.
If someone tells you the world is ending, believe them. Because for them, it probably is.
Edited at 2013-02-12 02:43 am (UTC)
Actually John Paul II - the pope before this one - was pope for 26 years and he was the second-longest serving pope in history.
Edited at 2013-02-11 01:51 pm (UTC)
But there have been rumblings that the next pope could be African because that and Latin America is where the Church is thriving.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Turk
Of course white people and their prophecies have already declaed him the antichrist lol
Just try typing his name into google, I dares ya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Turk
Not much chance of a woman pope though unless someone decides to pull a Pope Joan.
if you ask me they should get rid of popes al-to-fucking-gether BUT, no one asks me.
The Catholic Church knows it needs to change some things in order to not keep losing followers. But they couldn't change course so drastically after the much beloved Pope John Paul. Benedict was supposed to be a short 2-3 year pope who would then die, and then the Cardinals could vote in a more 'radical' pope.
Benedict has actually lived longer than anyone thought, so this is a VERY interesting development.
I'm so gonna watch the next voting on tv :) <3