"...in today's world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith...both strength of mind and body are necessary--strengths which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me."
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| "I'm too old for this shit."
-His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI*
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| Ban-na-na-na-na-na-na...eh...forget it... |
Yeah, citing his advanced years and how kids these days wear their dungarees too low, the Pope just gave his two weeks as spiritual leader to more than one billion Catholics. Wild huh? Now who's going to tell people not to wear condoms? Benedict XVI is the first Pope in nearly 600 years to hang up the tall hat. I didn't even know the Pope could resign, but then I didn't know (spoiler alert!) Batman could resign. Blamo, here comes Dark Knight Rises. Shows what I know, right?
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| Did you think I was kidding? |
Anyway, it may sound like I'm being disrespectful or sacrilegious or something when I compare Batman to the Pope, but I'm really not. They both wear capes, and sometimes go by other names (Bruce Wayne and Joseph Ratzinger respectively). Both have tons of money and control global organizations. Batman's got the Batmobile, the Pope's got the Popemobile (oh yes, it's a thing). In many ways they're both quite similar.
*What? It's the gist...
It raises so many questions. Will he go back to being Bishop Ratzinger? Or just Joseph Ratzinger? That is, does he get to keep a little holiness, or none at all? Will he still be considered infallible, will he revert to full fallibility, or will he be semi-fallible? And what the hell did he DO to resign? (Sorry I just took a course in administration and management, and my professor basically said "no matter how they sugarcoat it, and the usual methods are to say they want to spend time with their families or that it's because of their health or age, when someone resigns from an organization, especially a position of power, it's because they fucked up. Big time. All that crap about families and health is just to save face, if they hadn't agreed to quit, they'd have been fired and exposed." So I just have to wonder...what the hell does one have to do to have to quit being Pope.
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