Pope Benedict to resign at the end of the month, Vatican says

[Shogun]

Rome (CNN) -- Pope Benedict XVI will resign on February 28, his spokesman Father Federico Lombardi told CNN Monday.

The 85-year-old pope is resigning "because of advanced age," Benedict told the cardinals of the Catholic Church on Monday.

"Strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me," the pope told the cardinals, according to the Vatican.

The last pope to resign was Gregory XII in 1415. He did so to end a civil war within the church in which more than one man claimed to be pope.

Benedict, the 265th pope, is the sixth German to serve as pope and the first since the 11th century. He became pope in 2005.

He has led church after the third-longest papacy in church history and during a time in which the church is declining in his native Europe but expanding in Africa and Latin America.

Benedict's time as pope has been marked with a series of scandals and controversies, including hundreds of new allegations of sexual abuse by priests.

Pope Benedict to resign at the end of the month, Vatican says - CNN.com

Higher Learning religion debate #59573927485749854 ......GO!

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

next Pope is the Black Pope.

 

[Killah Ray]

Guess he was touched by an angel.....

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

It was only so long before fake nazi popes can pretend. Be on the lookout out for a sex scandal involving this b*stard to develop. Hopefully the Nigerian pope candidate will be selected....

 

[mahnameizray]

Watch the black pope have to clean shyt up.

 

[Jello Biafra]

Y'all know damn well that the Catholic Church isn't going to let a black man be the Pope.
They will gladly turn a blind eye to child rape but a non-caucasian Pope would be too crazy to accept.

 

[Dat Migo]

fukk that old cac

 

[mahnameizray]

Y'all know damn well that the Catholic Church isn't going to let a black man be the Pope.
They will gladly turn a blind eye to child rape but a non-caucasian Pope would be too crazy to accept.

apparently it's the thing to do.

 

[Danie84]

I'm not falling for this ruse, Pope John Paul II could barely walk and he carried his papacy out til the very end.

 

[Robbie3000]

What does a retired Pope do? Does he move down to Florida and play Shuffle board?

 

[CASHAPP]

Damn my dude took the Nas lost that bad?

And this is all apart of the prophecy. Now we await the final Pope before the end times. Its been a long time coming, but the false prophet is about to get into office.

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

child abuse scandal coming in 3, 2, 1....

 

[CASHAPP]

Prophecy of the Popes

Peter the Roman the final pope

The Black Pope's name is Peter

The End Times are among us breh and this means the False Prophet who will be the Antichrist right hand man will be a Black Pope. Irony..








Its a good day breh, now we just need to wait for the antichrist

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

good riddance to benedict...coward couldnt even last the whole way through..

 

[newarkhiphop]

Prophecy of the Popes

Peter the Roman the final pope

The Black Pope's name is Peter

The End Times are among us breh and this means the False Prophet who will be the Antichrist right hand man will be a Black Pope. Irony..







Its a good day breh, now we just need to wait for the antichrist