Congratulations, Pope! You decided to resign!
Papacy will remain vacant after 28 February until a new Pope has been selected.
Papacy will remain vacant! Such a good news! I hope Papacy remains vacant forever and never a successor is chosen. The current Pope committed crimes against humanity. His successor will most likely continue committing crimes. We know about the crimes of Popes.
The Pope is regarded as the successor of St. Peter, the Apostle. Jesus gave the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven to St. Peter…
The Keys of the kingdom of Heaven! Just a myth. People should not be mythguided. Time to close Papacy. Make the Vatican a museum of human stupidity.
One can dream. I suspect the RCC has something up its collective sleeves, though, and they won’t go quietly.
The papacy won’t go away. Who else can wear a silly hat and red shoes? There are lots of elderly celibates who want to wear the silly hat, tell lies about condoms, and have people call them “Your Holiness.”
On the one hand, good riddance to this blatant fascist, whose only priority, literally from day one, was propping up his Church’s fake authority with more fakery. (The Holocaust was caused by “neopaganism?” Really?!)
OTOH, the same Cardinals who elected that old bigot will probably replace him with a younger, more credible-sounding and more energetic bigot. So don’t look for anything remotely resembling improvement.
And here’s Hank Fox’s take, FTW:
He never really recovered from that fight with Yoda.
Seems it is getting extremely hot in the Vatican nexus of dumbfuckery, methinks there is summat a brewing that Benny, who was teetering anyway, cannot combat because there might well be revelations of the reality based of the true extent of his complicity in Catholic crimes.
I think he has realised there is no way he can continue because the coming allegations will be crippling.
The criminal activities of the church are coming home to roost in a rather obvious way, and supernatural help is nowhere to be found…what a shocker!
One thing is for sure Catholic popes do not resign it is a job for life and Ratty is as fit as any man his age is ever likely to be!
There is most certainly summat’ else behind this…I think it is an easy guess!
The ‘crows ‘ are finished..ding dong the dimwads are not dead just incapable of cogent thought.
I bet they are all in meltdown and the Vatican laundry room in 24 hr operation!
Perhaps he wants to help select his successor?
If he can get one of the extreme conservative young ones elected, his policies could continue for another 15-20 years.
The rat bastard needs to be in jail for his crimes.
pope has been of no use 2 society whether he resigns or dies wont b a loss
Best. Greeting Card. Message. Ever.
So Ratzi is resigning – that means the next pope might be the last if the Prophecy of the Popes, allegedly created by Malachi O’Morgair, has any validity (can I just say I hope it does).