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Pope Benedict XVI Announces Resignation At End Of Month
A stunning announcement to start the week from the Pope, who just a month ago was the first pontiff to enter twitter, and who just announced his resignation at the end of the month for "health reasons." “I’m very shaken by this unexpected news,” outgoing Italian PM Mario Monti told reporters today on the sidelines of an event in Milan, as reported by Ansa. A Vatican spokesman confirms Pope Benedict XVI, who is 85 and was one of the oldest new popes when elected, is not resigning because of any difficulties in the papacy. And so Pope Benedict XVI, f/k/a/ Joseph Ratzinger, April 19, 2005 - February 28, 2013.
Full Papal resignation letter below.
Pope Benedict XVI on Monday said he plans on resigning the papal office on February 28th. Below please find his announcement.
Full text of Pope's declaration
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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Cool hat!
Financial Secrets may be coming out soon?
The fact that he was in the Hitler Jugend wasn't a big deal for the Vatican makes you think what is important enough for them to SACK him now...
I had several friends and family members that were in fascist youth orgs in Germany, Austria and Italy. so? some of those were for boys aged 10-14, some for 8-10 years olds
and you had to have a terribly good excuse not to be in them
if America and the UK had lost WWII, you'd be saying the same about the Boy Scouts?
If you kill a jew, it's okay because if Hitler would have won the war they would be death anyway right?
YOU'RE ONE SCARY ASS SICK FUCK!!
for criminy, what has this to do with the other?
Berlusconi was in one of those youth orgs, the "Figli della Lupa" (the Sons of the She-Wolf). Same Bundeskanzler Kohl, and afterwards he was drafted as teenager in the Wehrmacht, trying to shoot down bombers, if I remember correctly
again: those youth orgs were modeled on the Boy Scouts - a British invention. And again, you had to have a terribly good excuse not to join
sheesh, you are a Belgian - did you ever read the older Tin-Tin comics a bit more critically? a hint: lots of fascist ideology there, the law required it (from memory: it's forbidden to publish youth tales that don't advance the manlyhood of the Belgian character, or that show characters that are fearful and docile)
scary? I do know that I'm a dinosaur here, though I did not know that I'm perceived as something like a Velociraptor
A priest, a peodophile, and a liar walk into a bar.
And that was just the first bloke..........
;-)
If only I could see a resignation letter from POTUS as well my day would be made.
Rumor has it that Ray Lewis has the inside track.
I've heard the pope is going to work for Goldman Sachs.... just saying...
I am sure Obama will enjoy being the next Pope.
FOR THE MORONS WHO THINK THE POPE = GOD
THE POPE IS A MAN.
GOD DIDN'T CHOSE HIM.
POPE'S HAVE MORE TO DO WITH POLITICS THAN WITH FAITH.
CHECK OUT HISTORY TO SEE HOW MANY POPES WHERE SICK FUCKS.
Yes the Pope is a man, thus a sinner. But the church (RC, Orthodox, Anglican, etc) have made a few contributions
-Survived Roman Empire good example for Post Fiat World
- supported gold std 327 to fall Holy Roman Empire
- Saved ancient history texts
- built Universities
- taught world view for modern science
- created most all education systems, created Hospitals
- all inspired by...Jesus
-Tried to strangle the Renaissance in its crib
-Supported serfdom and the divine right of kings for over 1000 years
-Secretly supported fascism
-Organized the Crusades, which are (IMHO) the main reason the Muslim world snuffed its light and became permanently fucked up
-Deliberate genocide of the Cathars
-Burned a few witches
-Molested a few boys
-Gobbled up hundreds of thousands of people with the Inquisition; tortured or killed many of them. It turned into snitch-state money grab.
-Condoned killing millions of Indians, stealing their land, stealing their gold and blowing it all on frippery
all inspired by... satan
i think very few catholics believe that. especially where i live in southern switzerland
yeah... mountain people tend to be a little cut of from the normal world :)
They also think "everybody is family" and in their village that may be the case but at sea level we kind of think different :)
"FOR THE MORONS WHO THINK THE POPE = GOD"
Nobody thinks that. And the only people who say it are shallow, cheap-shot Anti-Christians WHO YELL THAT THEY CANNOT THINK OR SPELL like you.
The entire Vatican is going to hell.
Not sure about the details, but I am pretty sure someone got fingered somewhere in this story.
The Choir Boys probably.
Pope Benedict Arnold
Ben Carson for Pope!
goldman sachs alumni for pope?
If he was a USA senator he would remain in office until he died and claim it was Gods will for him to occupy the seat. Of course they are just legislators and the pope has an executive position and he sees himself as Gods servant while senators will never even admit to being public "servants". Yes, a good politician is a dead politician.
i obozzo annoint thee Father Phil MeCrackIn as newly elected Popey in appreciation of Irelands distinguished services to Austerity and Serfdom. The bulk of the money laundering shall remain with JPM Wealth Management.
A top o' the morn and a trillion hail marys
I thought ALL Catholics were gay?
Church prophecy indicates that this next Pope, to be named in March, will be the last Pope before Christ's Second Coming!
Jesus himself said he would return in HIS GENERATION; so much for 'church' prophecy.
(Not to say that events recorded in the Bible won't necessarily come true, just that the inspiration for them wasn't 'supernatural')
Ma 24:34 Truly, I say unto you, this generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
Maybe I can clarify this for you.
In verse 33, the anticedent to "these things" is the abomination of desolation in verse 15, from book of Daniel. The abomination willl be Satan's last attempt to rid the world of Jews. "This generation" refers to the generation living in the time of the second half of the Tribulation (3.5 yrs) and is meant as an encouragement to these believers in that day. "Know that it is near, even at the doors"-- the second coming & the Kingdom-- will be 1260 days away. This generation is the jewish gen that sees these things.
AG Fruchtenbaum, Life of the Messiah (VIIIA11.Parable of the Fig Tree)
end of days!!!
may you all burn in hell...or at least get a sun burn on your post melt down beach front property!
This time of the Great Apostasy was predicted by Our Lady at Fatima in 1917 (among other instances).
She offered a simple and certain solution that has been ignored or sidestepped by all popes since and including Pius XI, and by virtually all Catholics around the world.
And for that general faithlessness, hypocritical moral cowards the world over can pile on over the self-immolating barque with easy cheap shots.
Unfortunately, it will likely only get more interesting and lethal for a great many of us.
http://www.heavenspeaceplan.com/
http://www.heavenspeaceplan.com/hosttopic/message.asp
Let's pray our way out of this one. It worked so well throughout history.
Well... and when it didn't work than obviously they were not praying hard enough.
Actually there are many examples throughout history where prayer and sacrifice did "work" as you phrased it. Any who wish to know can find them. Just quickly off the top of my head - Lepanto. -Portugal shedding their masonic government and almost completely avoiding WWII. ...there are many more.
And, eventually, the Fatima solution will be implemented, and will "work", and there will be know doubt (just as there was no doubt among even the most hardened atheists in the Cova de Iria on 10/13/1917) about who was responsible for saving the world. But, it will be late, and there will be much to pay in the mean time.
You miss my point.
There may be 2 outcomes in a scenario with praying for something.
1. It happens. It's a miracle! Lepanto, or my mom is cured (not from amputated leg mind you - but let's say cancer), or I've passed an exam, or whatever else.
2. It doesn't happen. You just didn't pray hard enough.
It's to some point resembling a socialist program, where it will never be seen as truly faulty - all good things that happen in the field of it's implementantion will be labeled as direct effects of the program, while all the failings on inadequte funding.
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Though on the side note, while I see no compeling evidence for any number of gods, especially ones that will act in the world and whose actions can be swayed in some way - I'd say that biggest society-wide problem is lack of responsibility and the problem is fundamtally moral one. Large majority of people accepts exceptions from basic natural laws as long as they are rubber-stamped by authority based on democratic "will of the people". Now this distortion is so large that pretty much everything is affected. Even smallest business, even private matters have some elements of coercion, or contain obligations that were never voluntarily undertaken etc. And people accept this as moral. In fact when problems mount a lot of them actually thinks it's too much freedom. Serfs that "didn't grow up to democracy" should be rules with a strong hand, etc.
So I guess in some very basic way I can even agree with this with a lot of reservations. If this solution (it is always repent and prey lest ye burn! Not just Fatima - every single one goes like this!) would somehow moved majority to at least Bible's second-rate morality (or the truncated and somewhat better version that is in fact preached in place of Biblical stuff) it would be a huge improvement. As long as no one can speak for god - it's not a problem to give him the only exception from natural law... as it at the same time strips these privileges from many humans that don't deserve them.
RE: "...I see no compelling evidence...":
It is absolutely all around you, but you seem miss it for the empiricist assumptions which require you to ignore or dismiss it.
OK.
A good place for you to start is the so-called "Miracle of the Sun". On 10/13/1917, 70,000 people witnessed what appeared to be the sun dancing in the sky for several minutes, spinning off colors into their environs, and apparently falling onto the earth. Everyone was screaming, falling to their knees praying and begging forgiveness. Though the area had been subjected to a drenching rain for many hours prior to the apparition, immediately afterward everyone and everything (including the ground in which autos and cars were getting stuck in the mud) were completely dry. Even the atheists who came only for the purpose of laughing at all the religious "fools" saw what all the others did, and some of them with the less hardened hearts did convert that day. Those who've mislabeled this as a local hysterical hallucination fail to take into account that people up to 20 miles away who had no knowledge of the events at the Cova, yet still saw the apparent activity of the sun that day.
These events at Fatima are possibly the most empirically verifiable to any inquirer of good will, sound mind, and open heart. May you find yourself among them.
There are many empirically verifiable events which a reasonable person would find "compelling". Eucharistic miracles, etc, etc, etc. But, start at Fatima.
Miracles like this are weak evidence for many reasons. First - it's like with prayer. It's not much of a story when kid that had daily prayers of his entire family... dies. But when it gets cured they all praise lord. For one Fatima with some atmospheric aberration there is hundred of similar situations where... nothing happens - that is - if in fact there was some strange stuff happening in there (even Wikipedia lists that some people saw nothing, just normal sun). Rare things DO HAPPEN on occasion. But it's one thing to say I've seen something incredible, and another that this event is tied to ... well, pretty much everything.
Now, debunking each and every single claim of a miracle is tediuos and pointless work. If god exists, meddles into lives of mortals (wtf for? all good guys get ETERNITY OF HAPINESS, why would he need to additionaly "test faith" with evil meddling and "encourage" with positive meddling? just let them live and than score them when they die...), has certain expectations and desires for our behaviour and is willing to prove himself occasionaly with a miracle - why do it in such half-assed way? Cure a bunch of well documented amputees and sceptics are forever silenced. Make the moon instantly switch orbit to a one that goes the other way. Kill Hitler (probably many prayed for it) in the middle of a speech with a ligthtining on a completely cloudless day. Make Mary appear in the sky, fly down into the crowd in Fatima, get photographed, talk to people and than fly away again. But, no. None of that, only miracles that have a lot of alternative options or very small audience. This god is a trickster, he purposefully makes events that don't stand up to serious scrutiny? He wants his believers gullible?
Also, how to get out of this problem - if god makes his miracles only with a plausible denial to never fully commit... how can one argue that one miracle can be proven? They either are all unprovable by design (like not curing amputees - so that people need more faith to belive) including your best miracle - or god just hates amputees, cures cancer, let's a kid how prayed get an A - but never regrows a leg on anyone.
Evasive rationalizations.
There is no evidence available for what you wish not to know.
If i were in his place i would have done it too, let the masonic gurus hold the bag as the West implodes.
Religions are a bubble.
What happens when people stop listening to this bullshit? That's when I'm afraid Government is going to step in, and do the passive aggressive terrorizing, themselves.
His Holiness Pope Mario of Balotelli ...
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2013/02/11/bono-or-balotelli-long-s...
Because he is wanted in Germany for child trafficing when he was the Arch Bishop there. Warned not to do any trans continental traveling. And yes, the devil wears Prada.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_GERMANY_POPE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-02-11-07-01-46
http://www.vho.org/aaargh/fran/actu/actu03/doc2003/vaticanII.html
How the Jews Changed Catholic Thinking
By Joseph Roddy, Look Senior Editor.
LOOK Magazine, January 25, 1966, Volume 30, No. 2.
stunned is janus.
for my part, i'll say that, while i have several doctrinal issues with rome, i am -- and have ever been -- a BIG fan of benedict.
whatever your feelings on the man, one must at least concede that he is a rare intellect and seems to be supremely sincere. i certainly don't agree with the man on everything, but i respect anyone who's put so much into the activity of thought -- no matter their conclusions.
there is something very, VERY odd about this.
curious minds want to know...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kTffgdNhNw
time will tell.
janus
Black Swan - White Smoke.
I'm long Berlusconi for Pope. The second Borgia Pope. Come on, it'll be fun!
Cue Ben Fulford re: Mass arrests of the Lizard people...