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Pope Benedict to Resign
#25Pope Benedict to Resign
Posted: 2/11/13 at 12:58pmOh Jesus (no pun intended) that's the best laugh I've had today.
#26Pope Benedict to Resign
Posted: 2/11/13 at 1:19pm
"Did he finally save enough for a place on Fire Island?"
Yeah, but only in the Grove.
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
#27Pope Benedict to Resign
Posted: 2/11/13 at 1:25pmAny Catholic can be elected pope, so I think they should choose Rick Santorum.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
OperaBwayLover
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#29Pope Benedict to Resign
Posted: 2/11/13 at 1:33pm
I read somewhere that it is widely rumored he has Parkinson's. All the same, as a Catholic, this news is surprising to me. And there's a part of me that's amused that there are betting pools on who will succeed him. I keep hearing Cardinal Peter Turkson's name tossed about:
NYDN Article on Peter Turkson
#30Pope Benedict to Resign
Posted: 2/11/13 at 1:34pm
Namo, you are cracking me up!
I needed a good laugh or two today.
....but the world goes 'round
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#31Pope Benedict to Resign
Posted: 2/11/13 at 2:12pmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rTIorwtJbhE
DAME
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#32Pope Benedict to Resign
Posted: 2/11/13 at 2:15pmRumor has it he had been lip synching his last few services.
HUSSY POWER!
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#33Pope Benedict to Resign
Posted: 2/11/13 at 2:19pmAs long as it wasnt a nip slip.
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#34Pope Benedict to Resign
Posted: 2/11/13 at 2:32pmThis thread is providing me some much needed laughs to ease over my frustrations over a damned Excel spreadsheet I'm tangling with at the moment. (=COUNTIF,"*F*CKYOUEXCEL*")
#35Pope Benedict to Resign
Posted: 2/11/13 at 2:34pm
PRAISE BEYSUS!!
You think, what do you want?
You think, make a decision...
DAME
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#36Pope Benedict to Resign
Posted: 2/11/13 at 2:53pmExcel was created by the devil. Kind of appropriate .
HUSSY POWER!
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Renart
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#37Pope Benedict to Resign
Posted: 2/11/13 at 2:56pm
"I'm not buying the "health reasons" either. I'm remembering John Paul II being wheeled around when he was clearly just not there."
Exactly the point. Ratzinger was there and saw it all and, being the private person he is, he doesn't want the whole world watching his decline like they did with JPII. BXVI is older now than JPII was when he died.
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#38Pope Benedict to Resign
Posted: 2/11/13 at 3:19pmTechnology has just been letting Carlos down lately
FindingNamo
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#40Pope Benedict to Resign
Posted: 2/11/13 at 3:30pmMaybe they shouldn't make "private" people the Pope. Not to mention ex-kinder-Nazis.
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Renart
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#41Pope Benedict to Resign
Posted: 2/11/13 at 4:11pm
"Maybe they shouldn't make "private" people the Pope."
Perhaps not. Which is one of the reasons he wasn't particularly effective in his role. He was more of a "chief of staff" than a "president". Good at organizing behind the scenes but not so good with TV cameras. And it was no secret that he was elected as a "caretaker Pope," just filling in for a few years until a younger, more charismatic pope was elected.
#42Pope Benedict to Resign
Posted: 2/11/13 at 4:13pm^ Maybe one who's a little more strict about the whole child rape thing.
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#44Pope Benedict to Resign
Posted: 2/11/13 at 4:53pmDon't eeeven get me started!
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#45Pope Benedict to Resign
Posted: 2/11/13 at 5:36pm
HBO is currently showing "on demand" a documentary called MEA MAXIMA CULPA (IIRC). It charts the molestation of many, many boys at a Midwest school for the deaf and then traces what happened (or rather, didn't) all the way up the channels to Ratzinger.
I'm not saying this is the reason for the Pope's retirement, just that the documentary is riveting and horrifying.
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#46Pope Benedict to Resign
Posted: 2/11/13 at 11:00pmOh, Sinead...
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
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#47Pope Benedict to Resign
Posted: 2/11/13 at 11:25pm
I'll throw a different voice into this conversation: I think it was the right and noble thing to do.
We don't know what his health issues are, but, being in a position of power and voluntarily stepping aside is unheard of in these times. He is opening up a path for new leadership.
I don't condone the cover-ups and criminal mismanagement of the abuse scandal. The leadership of the Church needs to be held accountable.
I simply feel a level of compassion for a man who is going to live out the rest of his life in quiet prayer.
I think watching this historic process unfold is going to be fascinating.
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
Updated On: 2/11/13 at 11:25 PM
#49Pope Benedict to Resign
Posted: 2/11/13 at 11:48pmWell his quiet prayers should be begging God not to send him to the lowest depths of hell where he deserves to be fvcked with a barbed wire dildo non stop for eternity.
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