What are your thoughts on Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation?

[mvp_hunter]

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Wa may problema ana. I'm a catholic. I hope himuon siya ug example sa atong mga tiguwang nga politiko nga di dyud mo-surrender maski grabe na ka tiguwang ug daghan na sakit. Basta makakurakot bahala pa ug naa nay gibati nga sakit sa kalawasan, cge pa gihapon.

[Code Talker]

It seems Popes take the job knowing they're going to die in office. The Vatican has designed and refined the Papacy in such a way that the 'supreme leader' dies in post. One need not look further than the last Pope as an example, John Paul II, who suffered major ill-health (I think he had a severe case of Parkinson's disease) and was virtually non-functional during his last days in office. To say Joseph Ratzinger is oblivious to this is just... foolish. So yes, I think there's more to the 'health reasons' story the Vatican is fronting besides "he isn't John Paul II".

If you look at his history, you will know that he has been implicated way back in 2001 in directly issuing orders to the bishops to keep s3x abuse allegations made against clerics completely secret, and that the church has sole jurisdiction over the investigation regarding such cases.
Pope 'obstructed' *** abuse inquiry | World news | The Observer

So why quit now? I think he saw that he was going to be more and more implicated by information slowly leaking out of the Vatican and thought the best way to deal with the controversy as more and more believers become disillusioned about the church, not to mention its dwindling reputation in the west and other parts of the world, was to quit while he still can. This decision would surely be to the benefit of the church as a whole, since this would make any future revelations less damaging because it would concern an ex-Pope rather than a current Pope.

That's one conspiracy theory.

Whichever the real story is, I don't think the Pope's decision was made without the involvement of the Vatican bureaucracy. It's still politics.

I share your opinion on this tingkagol.

[KlaytoN]

To those who are into religious prophesies, St Malachy in the 12th century predicted the next pope after Benedict will be Petrus Romanus. He will be the last Pope before the destuction of the Vatican.

[Bentleys]

He wanted to rest
tired because of so many anti Catholics.

[SioDenz]

He wanted to rest
tired because of so many anti Catholics.

In short ni surrender?

[centrifugal]

Church politics.

[noy.juan]

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[LionHeart]

Masakiton naman jd dw siya before pa siya nahimong Pope...

[domzgnrlover86]

angay rapud niya magresign kay di naman niya makayanan due to his health conditions....

[ranzsavior]

nagparamdam na ang Politics sa Vatican...