Pope To Resign Citing Advanced Age

Hugh Pickens writes writes "BBC reports that Pope Benedict XVI is to resign at the end of this month in an unexpected development, saying he is too old to continue at the age of 85. In a statement, the pontiff 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.' Resignations from the papacy are not unknown, but this is the first in the modern era, which has been marked by pontiffs dying while in office."

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Re:In a Vatican Statement.

[kaizendojo]

In a statement released by the Vatican Today, it was announced that his Holiness Pope Benedict XVI will step down with immediate effect. When asked for a reason, a spokesman for his former holiness suggested that he would like to spend more time with his wife and children.

I did nazi that coming.

I'm surprised; it was heil on the hitler list.

News for WHO, exactly?

[Runaway1956]

WTF? I read "pope resigns" early this morning, before I fell into bed. I read more "pope resigns citing advancing age" after I got out of bed. I look at slashdot, and see more "pope resigns" crap? WTF? I mean, really, WTF? Did I miss the fact that the pope created a new file system for Linux? Maybe he made kernel contributions? Did he even create any apps with which to observe religious holidays? WTF?

Headlines should read, "Some old dotard feels that he is so weak that he can no longer mumble the mumbo jumbo to keep the masses happy, more youthful dotard sought for position." And, it should be filed in the classifieds, not on slashdot.

I'll be reading about that pervert freak who was arrested at his "ranch" south of Texarkana here next. Yeah, he's newsworthy too, but slashdot? WTF? Somewhere between half and three quarters of slashdotters possess no soul that they'll admit to, and the rest aren't at all sure - so we have articles about people sheparding our souls?

Come on, people, give me something at least passingly nerdy. Has this pope ever even APPROVED of a papal app? Does he own an iPhone, or a Blackberry? Dig deep, find some reason to report this guy's senility on slashdot.