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Completely out of nowhere, the BBC is now reporting that Pope Benedict XVI is going to be resigning at the end of this month. Aged 85, the current pope has been criticised for his more conservative views in the press recently. I am aware this is a low content post so far however the news is literally only just appearing on the BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21411304 Edit - checked the BBC news feed and Vatican has definately confirmed his resignation for this month. Expect press hysteria followed by a month of speculation on which aged conservative will take the magic pope hat. I will try and keep this post updated. This is the first time a pope has resigned in over a century apparently. (Goon Yoda has it as 1415 for the last resignation) You can jump on the live Popefeed from the BBC here if you want to find out what's happening and join in the guessing as to his reasons for the resignation; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21409149 Thanks to goon Kurtofan here is the pope's resignation announcement ; http://en.radiovaticana.va/articolo.asp?c=663815 Pope posted: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. Here is a list of candidates likely to be in the running to become the next Pope according to BBC sources; Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana, 64 Cardinal Marc Ouellet of Canada, 68 Archbishop Angelo Scola of Milan, 71 Cardinal Francis Arinze of Nigeria, 80 Archbishop Christoph Schoenborn of Vienna, 67 Archbishop Odilo Pedro Scherer of Sao Paulo, 63 Gianfranco Ravasi - President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, 70 Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of the Philippines, 55 olblue fucked around with this message at Feb 12, 2013 around 07:50 |
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| # ? May 22, 2013 13:35 |
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That article is oddly short - especially for the BBC. Has the pope actually confirmed this?
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 11:07 |
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I just came to post this too. This is huge news, the early reports are that he will be citing "health reasons" but that is very unusual, popes usually just keep going until they die anyways. Three weeks notice seems to hint to me at a scandal of some kind.Margaret Thatcher posted:That article is oddly short - especially for the BBC. Has the pope actually confirmed this? It just hit the Italian news sites, no one has seen it coming so, yeah, it is very short right now. Italian WSJ: http://www.wallstreetitalia.com/art...8-febbraio.aspx
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 11:08 |
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Prolly got catfished after joining twitter... additional sources: http://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad...-xvi-renunciara http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/201...l?utm_hp_ref=uk And finally, this is the last pope to resign - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gregory_XIII Uglycat fucked around with this message at Feb 11, 2013 around 11:13 |
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Bring on Peter the Roman and the end times, I say.
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This is going to sound pretty silly but I had no idea Popes resigned. I thought it was a job for life, albeit one where you had 16 + hour days and were basically worked to death.
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At least we know whos going to be the bad guy in the new Star Wars films now.
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wutheringbites posted:This is going to sound pretty silly but I had no idea Popes resigned. I thought it was a job for life, albeit one where you had 16 + hour days and were basically worked to death. It is - its extremely rare for a pope to just quit as the current live BBC news feed is discussing.
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Mola Yam posted:Bring on Peter the Roman and the end times, I say. This is going to be huge among conspiracy types. The wailing and gnashing of teeth will be hilarious. More seriously, this is the first time a Pope has resigned office in hundreds of years. I can't imagine that he's just tired of the job, so it leads one to wonder what precipitated this. The Vatican is such a black box politically it's hard to say what's going on, but I fully expect some interesting leaks to be coming our way soon while people position themselves.
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wutheringbites posted:This is going to sound pretty silly but I had no idea Popes resigned. I thought it was a job for life, albeit one where you had 16 + hour days and were basically worked to death. Wikipedia is saying it last happened in 1415. The guardian is reporting it as only the second time they have known it to happen.
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edit: ^^^^wutheringbites posted:This is going to sound pretty silly but I had no idea Popes resigned. I thought it was a job for life, albeit one where you had 16 + hour days and were basically worked to death. He would be the first pope to resign since the 15th century.
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I was going to make the typical Catholic clergy joke and ask if his sex tape was being leaked, but then I realized the Hitler Youth tape is a more obvious scandal to cause this resignation. I won't be really sorry to see this one leave and I'm glad he's resigning because I felt kind of bad hoping he'd die soon.
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Either he's in very poor health or about to get bad publicity. I don't mean the church is about to get bad publicity: this wouldn't happen unless he were personally liable in some kind of very serious scandal. It's gonna be juicy: Vatican mea culpas are rare. Edit: removed redundant question. Mescal fucked around with this message at Feb 11, 2013 around 11:15 |
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CBC and CNN apps just posted that as a notification (no full story yet). Just as well; his handling of the paedo-priest scandals was inexcusable. Victims and Catholics alike deserve better to say the absolute least. The question is, will the next Pope have been a part of the conspiracy?
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jet sanchEz posted:Three weeks notice seems to hint to me at a scandal of some kind. The Vatican just found out condoms do prevent aids.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 11:13 |
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Wow, this is incredible. That news outlets are so sparse on the cause for this is really strange too. It seems so sudden.
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Yoda posted:Wikipedia is saying it last happened in 1415. The guardian is reporting it as only the second time they have known it to happen. Well drat.  I feel less silly now. As soon I saw the breaking news on BBC News I went and googled it because I was half-convinced someone had hacked into the website and published the story as a joke, the idea of the Pope just randomly resigning seemed that far fetched.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 11:14 |
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The catholic church is very old to find out why he resigned you need to crack the bible code I'm Filipino so I don't know anything about that Bible thing heh
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 11:14 |
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Well that came out of loving nowhere. Not that I'm upset about it, but, drat.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 11:15 |
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wutheringbites posted:Well drat. I felt the same way and had to check the italian sites in case. The story is just so bizzarely out of nowhere.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 11:15 |
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Does the Pope ever take a sick day? Why couldn't he? What important work is he going to miss? Pope's don't resign for illness.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 11:15 |
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Operation Yewtree claims yet another scalp. Huzzah!  (Or maybe Dawkins is blackmailing him)
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Live video feed is up
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jet sanchEz posted:I just came to post this too. This is huge news, the early reports are that he will be citing "health reasons" but that is very unusual, popes usually just keep going until they die anyways. Three weeks notice seems to hint to me at a scandal of some kind. The Catholic church doesn't really seem to care much about responding to scandal, so if he is resigning for something like that then it would have to be huge. The man survived covering up pedophilia and being a Hitler Youth. What else could he possibly be involved with that could tarnish his position? e: Perhaps it was a secret Inquisition! 
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Pope statement.quote:Dear Brothers, http://en.radiovaticana.va/articolo.asp?c=663815
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I hope the next Pope is black as hell. Like the blackest Nigerian cardinal they can find.
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If it is a scandal it's gotta be pretty loving huge, as the Hitler youth stuff was known from day 1, as well as the protection of pedophiles thing, and he just kept on truckin'. Maybe his interactions on twitter have destroyed his faith.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 11:18 |
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How popular has Pope Benedict been worldwide, outside of Catholics? My memory is extremely hazy, but I remember Pope John Paul II being extremely well-liked, even by other religions. And the official pope statement is released as I'm typing it. Health reasons it is.
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Exciting stuff. My money's on a) an illness and b) a non-European successor, possibly even more exciting.Reene posted:Wow, this is incredible. The news has been out for twelve minutes, give the reporters a break!
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 11:19 |
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It's either a crazy scandal or there's some mental degredation going on because Popes really don't just resign for being tired.
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Wasn't the pope really involved in sex abuse coverups in Germany? I seem to remember him being indicated in actively covering for abusive priests.
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He's resigning the same day the new book from the Da Vinci Code guy comes out. His entire tenure as Pope has actually been an elaborate ARG for the book. Viral marketing at it's finest.
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LOCUST FART HELL posted:If it is a scandal it's gotta be pretty loving huge, as the Hitler youth stuff was known from day 1, as well as the protection of pedophiles thing, and he just kept on truckin'. Maybe his interactions on twitter have destroyed his faith.  Benedict XVI was on the verge of revealing the Illuminati, so they abducted his wife and children, pulled a "Shame if something happened!  " ploy, and forced him to resign.
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BBC OH GOD PANIC WE HAVE NOTHING TO SAY!!! posted:The Pope is to resign at the end of this month in an entirely unexpected development, the Vatican confirms. Gotta love the BBC when they're caught short news wise. They've put up the big banner, but they have literally nothing new to add at the moment. 
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 11:22 |
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Finally, he can ride into the sunset with George Ganswein.
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Gen. Ripper posted:
If the Pope can't beat the Illuminati and save his family then who can? E: I see the plot for Taken 3 now.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 11:22 |
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Wow, how rare is it for one generation to experience three popes in power? It's history in the making! Also, the end times? 
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Fine-able Offense posted:I hope the next Pope is black as hell. Like the blackest Nigerian cardinal they can find. This would make it a perfect storm of crazy. You would have the conspiracy theories about ends times, speculation about what the real reason behind his resignation was and racists going mental over a black pope.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 11:22 |
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Sniff. It seems like only yesterday that he was elected. Good times.
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Gen. Ripper posted:
You know catholic priests are celibate (except for little boys) right?
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