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Monday, February 11, 2013

His Holiness resigns to make way for a fighter Pope ... I hope


Christianity needs a militant Pope now like it has never done ever before.  I hope we get one who has not been afflicted with the dreaded disease of political correctness and someone who is ready to be martyred in the fight against evil.  Our leaders in the various governments of the Christian nations have been enticed, blackmailed, bribed .... into joining the other side and as such they have been rendered almost useless.

One does not have to believe, word to word, the teachings of the Bible or to even believe in God to know instinctively what constitutes "good" and what constitutes "evil".  I personally know many atheists who are much better people than those who profess to be  "God-fearing" Christians.   Today, the atheists doing a gig on Twitter at the news of the resignation are not the kind I know and respect.

Notice how his Holiness has mentioned "Mother Mary"  and not the usual "Virgin Mary" used by the Popes gone by.  It's always a sign of  intelligence when science and religious beliefs walk hand in hand.

Dear Brothers,

I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. 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. I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the bark of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me. For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is.

Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects. And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff. With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer. 

BENEDICTUS PP XVI

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