02-11-2013, 10:16 AM
I can understand the reasoning (health), but I never thought it was a position anyone resigned from. It's almost suspicious.
I sort of felt like he was a "lame duck" to me anyway. Just spouting off the same rhetoric from the previous Pope. It will be interesting to see how this is handled, since there is so much ceremony involved when a Pope actually dies. I wonder if he will be treated in the same manner when his day comes. I wonder who the cardinals will elect and if they get locked in a room as usual to do so.
On a sidenote, I recently watched a documentary on HBO (I think) that dealt with the abuse scandal that rocked the church. Pope Benedict came up often. Almost as if he assisted in trying to discourage the facts of the claims.
I sort of felt like he was a "lame duck" to me anyway. Just spouting off the same rhetoric from the previous Pope. It will be interesting to see how this is handled, since there is so much ceremony involved when a Pope actually dies. I wonder if he will be treated in the same manner when his day comes. I wonder who the cardinals will elect and if they get locked in a room as usual to do so.
On a sidenote, I recently watched a documentary on HBO (I think) that dealt with the abuse scandal that rocked the church. Pope Benedict came up often. Almost as if he assisted in trying to discourage the facts of the claims.