Benedict XVI

[guerande]

Pope Benedict XVI says to day he will leave his function 28-02-2013 .
Last time it appears was 600 years ago.
He said he couldn't any more work, due to health desease and age.
It's a  "  bomb  " here in Europe .

[Littleenki]

Seems the devil himself wants to take the reigns...for the last ride into the end!

Peter the Roman..here he comes!

[sky otter]

WOW..just saw it..unreal..guess we'll be hearing from all those This will be the last pope folks ..

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/11/16924342-pope-benedict-xvi-to-step-aside-on-feb-28?lite

Pope Benedict XVI to step aside on Feb. 28

The 85-year-old pope says he no longer has the strength to carry out his duties, announcing that he will resign effective February 28. NBC's Claudio Lavanga reports from Rome, who says the resignation "came as a shock."

By Claudio Lavanga and Alastair Jamieson, NBC News
Updated at 10:50 a.m. ET: ROME -- Pope Benedict XVI announced Monday he will step aside as leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics on Feb. 28, saying he no longer has the strength to carry out his duties.
Speaking in Latin, the 85-year-old announced his decision during an address at the "Concistory for the canonization of the martyrs of Otranto", a small event held early in the morning.

The decision makes him the first pope to resign since the Middle Ages.

His statement was posted on the Vatican Radio website. Carrying out the duties of being pope required "both strength of mind and body," it said.

"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," the pontiff's statement said.

The choice was a "decision of great importance" for the church, the statement added.

German news agency dpa quoted the pontiff's brother, Georg Ratzinger, as saying his brother was increasingly struggling to walk and had been contemplating stepping aside for several months. "His age is weighing on him," he reportedly added.

There are several papal contenders in the wings, but no obvious front-runner, The Associated Press reported:

Contenders to be his successor include Cardinal Angelo Scola, archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, the archbishop of Vienna, and Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the Canadian head of the Vatican's office for bishops.

Many Catholics were taken aback by the decision.

"This was a huge shock to the church; nobody saw it coming [although there] might have been a few hints," said Christopher Lamb, Assistant Editor at Catholic weekly The Tablet. "But in many ways given that if you are getting old and finding it very difficult to run the church it is only the right thing to step down."

Reuters quoted a Vatican spokesman as saying the pontiff did not fear schism in the Church following his resignation.

But while the day-to-day running of the church would go on, big decisions such as appointing new bishops and issuing papal documents would come to a halt until a new pontiff was chosen, Lamb said.

"At the top level of the church there will be a freeze," he said. 

A complex sequence of events to elect the next pope has been set in course by the pope's announcement on Monday, although rules governing the selection are the same as those after a papal death. 

'A decision of great courage'
Archbishop Vincent Nichols, president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, said that the pope's announcement had "shocked and surprised everyone."

"Yet, on reflection, I am sure that many will recognize it to be a decision of great courage and characteristic clarity of mind and action," he added.

Born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1927, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became the 265th pope in April 2005, describing himself "a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord."

Reuters noted:

Ratzinger served in the Hitler Youth during World War Two when membership was compulsory. He was never a member of the Nazi party and his family opposed Adolf Hitler's regime.

His tough stance on theological issues had earned him the nickname "God's rottweiler." He was the oldest pope elected in nearly 300 years, according to The Associated Press.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she respected Pope Benedict's decision to step down.

"If the pope himself, after thorough reflection, has come to the conclusion that he doesn't have the strength anymore to carry out his duties, then this has my utmost respect," she said at press conference on Monday.

She also praised him as "one of the most remarkable thinkers of our age."

The last pope to step aside was Gregory XII in 1415, who did so in order to end the Great Western Schism.

Greg Burke, senior communications adviser to the Holy See, confirmed the pope will step down on February 28 at 8 p.m. local time (2 p.m. ET), leaving the office vacant until a successor is chosen.

The Associated Press added:

The move sets the stage for the Vatican to hold a conclave to elect a new pope by mid-March, since the traditional mourning time that would follow the death of a pope doesn't have to be observed.

Reuters noted that Benedict XVI "ruled over a slower-paced, more cerebral and less impulsive Vatican."

It added:

But while conservatives cheered him for trying to reaffirm traditional Catholic identity, his critics accused him of turning back the clock on reforms by nearly half a century and hurting dialogue with Muslims, Jews and other Christians. ...

After appearing uncomfortable in the limelight at the start, he began feeling at home with his new job and showed that he intended to be pope in his way.

Despite great reverence for his charismatic, globe-trotting predecessor -- whom he put on the fast track to sainthood and whom he beatified in 2011 -- aides said he was determined not to change his quiet manner to imitate John Paul's style. ...

The first German pope for some 1,000 years and the second non-Italian in a row, he traveled regularly, making about four foreign trips a year, but never managed to draw the oceanic crowds of his predecessor.

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/11/16924342-pope-benedict-xvi-to-step-aside-on-feb-28?lite

[Littleenki]

Theyre already suggesting an African or even allowing it to go back to the Italians...should be interesting, but as for news stories and heresay, Ill keep my ideas to myself and look through the mainstream and even alternative theories...thats where the truth lies...Hmmmm, Lies...looks like we found the right word for the situation so far...

Le

[micjer]

Remember Billie Meier's contact prophesies.   
Eerily they have been pretty accurate. 
Here is what it says about the popes.

Also take time to read the page as many have come true.

After the turn of the millennium, the papacy will exist only a short period. Pope John Paul II is the third from last in this position. After him, only one additional pontificate will follow. Then a Pontifex Maximus follows who will be known as Petrus Romanus. Under his religious rule, the end of the Catholic Church will come, a total collapse becoming inevitable.

That will be the beginning of the worst catastrophe that will ever have befallen the human beings and the Earth. Many Catholic clerics, priests, bishops, cardinals and many others will be killed and their blood will flow in streams. But also the reformed version of Christianity will become just as infinitely small, as does Catholicism.

http://www.theyfly.com/prophecies/prophecies.htm

[undo11]

Remember Billie Meier's contact prophesies.   Eerily they have been pretty accurate.  Here is what it says about the popes.

Also take time to read the page as many have come true.




http://www.theyfly.com/prophecies/prophecies.htm

sounds like father malachy's prophecy. 
why would that pope jump ship? 
well they are trying to convince us that this is bible prophecy unveiling.  now if they wrote the prophecy 2000 years ago, for just this time, they certainly didn't study it very well today, cause they are missing some huge pieces.  i don't know what to make of that.

[zorgon]

...the truth lies...

      

[sky otter]

guess we'll be hearing from all those This will be the last pope folks .


well that didn't take long at all

[robomont]

i got the malichie book in my collection.its more like a big pamplet but yea i think it does say the next is the last.
good riddance.
my guess .muslim immigrants invade the vatican.all records are burned.

[micjer]

[petrus4]

Pope Benedict XVI says to day he will leave his function 28-02-2013 .
Last time it appears was 600 years ago.
He said he couldn't any more work, due to health desease and age.
It's a  "  bomb  " here in Europe .

I think such an admission would require courage, especially given how public a figure he is.  I can respect that.

[zorgon]

well that didn't take long at all

[zorgon]

my guess .muslim immigrants invade the vatican.all records are burned.

They did that in Alexandria 

We better send the Pegasus Strike Force to collect the books in the Vatican Vault... for posterity

[undo11]

well let's think about this.  what is the mark of the beast? for all the enlil fans out there, i do believe it's the crescent moon (sin the moon god), which symbollizes the menstrual-lunar cycle.

yep, enlil and enki will be at it again. 

[zorgon]

Pope Benedict XVI to step aside on Feb. 28

The BOSS is NOT PLEASED

Within hours of the announcement...



A sign from above? Lightning strikes Vatican after Pope Benedict resigns



What are the odds that two people get the same bolt at the same time?

"If I am wrong, let me be struck by lightning!" 

ZAPPPPPP

"Holy crap..."

My bad