Pope Benedict to resign

So let's see, his resignation is sinister, but it could possibly expose him to criminal charges.

Laughable.

Easy, the Cardinals who elected him, and that is exactly to whom he sent his resignation.

What is your problem, Finn?

(1) Show me where I said that his resignation is somehow "sinister".

(2) The criminal charges we are speaking of devolve from the undoubted cover-up of the priestly misconduct with underage children (primarily boys) which has been making the headlines for the past several years and which Ratzinger was instrumental in promoting (the cover-up and protection of individual priests, that is). I also beg you to note that I'm not the first poster to bring up the subject of possible charges. Address your silly snide comments to someone else, please.

Just listened to a great radio interview with the ermm mature Italian female reporter who broke the story.

It was worth it to pay attention in Latin class some decades ago.

She scooped ém all - apparently some of the cardinals didn't even understand what Pope Benedict was saying.

If Tenzin Gyatso ever resigns (virtually impossible) or when he dies, we can count on A2K Liberals to post a long string of paeans to his wisdom and humanity rather than bitch about how he left his people to the tender mercies of the Chinese when, perhaps, they needed him most.

that was only a joke.

did you thnk i was seriously asking?

You, clearly.

i tried to answer "No" but the hamster told me my answer was too short.

No

I clearly what?

You're getting less than coherent in your advancing age, Finn.

the voices might not be real, but they sure do have some good ideas!

Let's take this slowly for you Andy:

"What's your problem?"

"You, clearly."

The Hamster is the A2K Bot, but I appreciate what you may have though of my response.

aaahh ok

I must admit that that gives me a warm and self-satisfied feeling. Anytime I can cause you some discomfort, it's been a good and worthwhile day.

Which is why I have such a problem with you.

You have consistently made it personal in a vile way.

I think you have me mixed up with Setanta, but that's ok, too.

This from PDiddie's blog:
Disgrace
Could someone help Joey Ratz find his forever home?


On March 10 (2010), the chief exorcist of the Vatican, the Rev. Gabriele Amorth (who has held this demanding post for 25 years), was quoted as saying that "the Devil is at work inside the Vatican," and that "when one speaks of 'the smoke of Satan' in the holy rooms, it is all true—including these latest stories of violence and pedophilia." This can perhaps be taken as confirmation that something horrible has indeed been going on in the holy precincts, though most inquiries show it to have a perfectly good material explanation.

Concerning the most recent revelations about the steady complicity of the Vatican in the ongoing—indeed endless—scandal of child rape, a few days later a spokesman for the Holy See made a concession in the guise of a denial. It was clear, said the Rev. Federico Lombardi, that an attempt was being made "to find elements to involve the Holy Father personally in issues of abuse." He stupidly went on to say that "those efforts have failed."
He was wrong twice. In the first place, nobody has had to strive to find such evidence: It has surfaced, as it was bound to do. In the second place, this extension of the awful scandal to the topmost level of the Roman Catholic Church is a process that has only just begun. Yet it became in a sense inevitable when the College of Cardinals elected, as the vicar of Christ on Earth, the man chiefly responsible for the original cover-up. (One of the sanctified voters in that "election" was Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston, a man who had already found the jurisdiction of Massachusetts a bit too warm for his liking.)

I truly do not wish to relive the stench of the Church in this matter of pedophilia. It might be enough that this pope takes to his grave, and to the hottest Hell he believes in, the eternal shame of a life filled with evil and cloaked in piety. From his childhood in the Hitler Youth all the way to the present day, Pope Benedict XVI has absolutely no claim to the grace of God.

If there is a God, that is.

Not even the Onion's account makes this matter amusing.

The RCC is in greater need of a reformer than any other institution on the face of the Earth. It would give great hope to its legions of believers if the next pontiff were African, or Latino, but that might be too much to ask of the Cardinals. We'll just have to wait for the holy smoke to see.



In the meantime, those of us non-Catholics can hope for something that at least looks like progress. This pope was never intended to represent that.

Good riddance to bad, bad rubbish.

Harken back to your outrageous comments concerning my admiration for Genghis Khan and my deliberately ironic comment about "brown people" in America.

I don't lose any sleep over the fact that you have a personal animosity for me, but please don't play the "Who me?" fool.

Another progressive wet dream

I recommend you get some fiber soon, finny.

sheesh...