Ratzinger Resigns - Pope Packs It In

[Black Dawg]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21411304

Pope Benedict XVI calls it quits claiming health issues but is there more to the story?

[reswati]

He is gonna build a new Death Star for episodes 7, 8 and 9 now.

[Black Dawg]

Build it he has?

There are many that feel the that it is not a coincidence that he is to resigning after the airing of HBO documentary MEA MAXIMA CULPA. No pontiff has resigned in last 6 centuries.

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/mea-maxima-culpa-director-alex-gibney-praises-pope-170013599.html

[pottedplant]

This is like "who did what, in what hotel room."

[Sagittarius Rising]

Pope Gregory XII was the last to resign in 1415 to end the western schism. However, this pope is no Gregory nor is this 1415. Ratzinger, who's previous title of Grand Inquisitor (contemporary Prefect of the Doctrine of Faith) and also a member of the Hitler Youth (though according to him he did not want to join). During his eight years as pontiff he has done nothing to address the pedophilia crisis going on and as the others before him has simply swept it under the rug. Maybe with luck the conclave will elect a liberal pope who understands the church must change and respect the law of man or simply wither and die over time. I would really like to see the Catholic church and faith be rejuvenated into the force for good it can be, and not the bloated whore it currently is.