Pope Benedict to resign

[soulflower]

The Catholic Church should just disband and start all over again...

[Mom49of4]

That is not going to happen.

[Baltimatt]

The Catholic Church should just disband and start all over again...

Good luck with that!

[songfourone]

Lots of speculation there and not much substance. I'm surprised you quote from and link to such a weak source.

CNN is a weak source now? Who knew?

Glad I am not the one having to defend the Catholic Churches spiral into the damned. Or the Republican spiral into the damned. When are you going to get tired of being on the loser team?

[songfourone]

Impressive indeed.

"League of Nations", really? You might want to investigate that.

Catholic Baptisms Decline
http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news...tisms-decline/

Catholic Weddings Rates Plummets
http://www.osv.com/tabid/7621/itemid...riage-rat.aspx

Catholic Mass Attendance rates Fall
http://ncronline.org/news/catholics-...-church#table2

Perhaps the unwashed masses are starting to realize that the Catholic Church is not the holy house that they thought it was and are leaving by droves due to the continued cover up of the molestation of children by the priests, and now a money scandal.

[ODENTON]

Scotland's Roman Catholic archbishop, mired in rape claims, resigns

Good heavens, what haven't they done.

[zenwalk]

UK's top cardinal flies the coop too.

When Cardinal Keith O’Brien handed in his resignation as archbishop of Scotland to Pope Benedict XVI ahead of his 75th birthday on March 17 last year, he likely had no idea how relevant it would become in the history of the Catholic Church. The resignation was made nunc pro tunc or “now for later”—to be dealt with when the pope had time for such matters. But Pope Benedict, who is stepping down from his papacy on February 28, only found time to approve O’Brien’s resignation last Friday. The resignation, and the presumed assumption that O’Brien will not participate in the conclave to elect the next pope, is just the latest in an avalanche of sleazy scandals to rock the Vatican since the pope tendered his resignation on February 11. And, given the speed at which the Vatican’s skeletons are surfacing, O’Brien’s resignation has left many wondering how many cardinals will be left by the time the conclave begins.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...ho-s-next.html

[zenwalk]

If the reason for these recent frenzied resignations is the scarlet letter of homosexuality we can only assume how mundane child rape must be not to elicit similar horror in the Curia.

[Calamari]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...ho-s-next.html

At the heart of this scandal—unlike last week’s intimations of a“gay priest lobby”-- are revelations that O’Brien, a staunch critic of homosexuality, had actually made “inappropriate sexual advances” to four male seminarians...

How many times must we hear that same story before it becomes the rule?

Every time I hear someone go off on a hateful rant about homosexuals, I just assume they are closeted.

[zenwalk]

If the substance of the Vatileaks is the reason the Vatican is imploding it's safe to infer that Benedict himself is gay? These truly are endtimes in the full biblical sense.

[songfourone]

It would appear that the Catholic Church is imploding on itself. It's the only way to be completely sure.

[RavnFreek]

As a catholic, I am almost glad this is all happening. With the pope resigning, the constant scandal. Hopefully it will be a wake up call that you cannot operate like its the year 1450. Its time to modernize and think slightly progressive if you want to stay alive. If you quit moving you die. Its time for some change. The catholic church can keep its core values and still realize we live in the 21st century.

Of course if we get the same old man pope we had before it will all be for nothing and we will remain in a state of constant scandal and continue to be the punch line of late night comedy.

[zenwalk]

The church will continue to fail until it is prepared to hand their in-house criminals over to the authorities and stop being worried over how it looks. The RCC is probably done for since it only seems to thrive in more primitive societies any way.

[soulflower]

What's done in the dark will eventually come to light

[zenwalk]

What's done in the dark will eventually come to light

You think the reason the pope is resigning is because he's gay too?

[soulflower]

You think the reason the pope is resigning is because he's gay too?

At this point, nothing surprises me

[DaggerJohn]

You think the reason the pope is resigning is because he's gay too?

Suppose he is gay. If he doesn't act on it, what's the big deal?

[queenie]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...ho-s-next.html
How many times must we hear that same story before it becomes the rule?

Every time I hear someone go off on a hateful rant about homosexuals, I just assume they are closeted.

ha ha ha....so true...I was a psych minor and u don't know how right you are....some people enjoy living on a river!!!

[zenwalk]

Suppose he is gay. If he doesn't act on it, what's the big deal?

It's a big deal to Catholic teaching. Not so much to me. I find it curious that the Vatican gives a pass on child rapists yet has a melt down at being gay. I think the Pope is pooped from fighting a war with a dozen fronts. The Rhode Island Superior Court now has "yards" of internal evidence relating to the Legion of Christ group and the ongoing lawsuit over the Mee estate. This is the first time secret Curia business has fallen into legal hands. The Vatican is sinking and will sink unless they make a clean breast of things. It's their only hope yet they still insist on secrecy.

http://news.msn.com/us/documents-of-...released-in-ri

[queenie]

It's a big deal to Catholic teaching. Not so much to me. I find it curious that the Vatican gives a pass on child rapists yet has a melt down at being gay. I think the Pope is pooped from fighting a war with a dozen fronts. The Rhode Island Superior Court now has "yards" of internal evidence relating to the Legion of Christ group and the ongoing lawsuit over the Mee estate. This is the first time secret Curia business has fallen into legal hands. The Vatican is sinking and will sink unless they make a clean breast of things. It's their only hope yet they still insist on secrecy.

http://news.msn.com/us/documents-of-...released-in-ri

As a reformed Catholic I totally agree with you....16 years of Catholic School for myself and my siblings and none of us are practicing Catholics!!!