Non-Catholic reactions to Pope Benedict's resignation.

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rbarcia said:
I have no idea what you are talking. Mary said yes to God about having Jesus, therefore, she can help select a pope? Not sure how we get there from the incarnation.
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I guess you’ve never asked anyone to pray for you.
 
JustaServant said:
If you want to start a thread about this, feel free.
Do not derail this one.
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It’s not a derailment; just a reaction to the article the OP posted a link to.

For myself, like some others have already said, I just hope the out-going Pope gets the rest he needs and finds ways to have an enjoyable and productive retirement. I hope he has the energy and inclination to continue to write.
 
jrtrent said:
It’s not a derailment; just a reaction to the article the OP posted a link to.

For myself, like some others have already said, I just hope the out-going Pope gets the rest he needs and finds ways to have an enjoyable and productive retirement. I hope he has the energy and inclination to continue to write.
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This would be an amazing revelation…writtings from a pope not ex-cathedra…😉
 
I have a question, and mean no disrespect. In his resignation, the Pope wrote:
…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…
What of Papal infallibility?

Or does that only apply to doctrinal issues?

Thanks.
 
I broke my news story rule of “never read the comments underneath”!

I really wish I hadn’t! :rolleyes:
 
YKohen said:
I have a question, and mean no disrespect. In his resignation, the Pope wrote:
…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…
What of Papal infallibility?

Or does that only apply to doctrinal issues?

Thanks.
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Yep! No pope is sinless… they just have the right to give infallible teaching on issues of faith and morals.
 
I join my prayers to those of my Catholic brothers and sisters in imploring the Holy Spirit’s continued guidance of Christ’s church on earth, especially in this seemingly post-Christian culture.
 
First off I have great sympathy for my brothers and sisters in the Catholic Church. For them the Pope is both the anchor and helmsman for their boat. Those are contrary analogies but both true I think. For my brothers and sisters they are not only experiencing the sorrow of a loss which accompanies any end of a papacy but also experiencing shock at resignation which is no doubt unusual.

I also feel sadness for Christendom. It seems to me that the Pope Benedict was a good Christian leader. In this time we seem to have a deficiency in good leadership. While so many churches are being led down a deadly path the Catholic Church has held steady to important moral truths. This may not be the result of one man, the Pope, but it is plainly true that he has been one of those who has helped maintained Truth in our day.

Since the Catholic Church does contain the largest number of Christians on the planet I pray for comfort for those in her who mourn and God’s guidance for those who select a new Bishop of Rome.
 
I heard about it when I logged on to Facebook this morning. I didn’t (and still don’t) have any feelings about it one way or another.

I’m not trying to be rude or callous, but from the perspective of a non-Catholic the pope has no bearing on my life, and as for the Catholics in my life I’m not too worried about them. They end up loving every pope, so I’m sure it will all work out.
 
YKohen said:
I have a question, and mean no disrespect. In his resignation, the Pope wrote:
…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…
What of Papal infallibility?

Or does that only apply to doctrinal issues?

Thanks.
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The apostle Peter wasn’t impeccable, even having denied Jesus three times, but when Jesus asked him who he thought he was, if not the prophet Elijah or John the Baptist returned to life, he answered: “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God,” upon which Jesus told him that it was by the grace of God that he intuited the truth of what he had said. Human reasoning alone, apart from the charism of the Holy Spirit, is fallible and prone to error. In the words of Jesus to Peter: “Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven.” The pope himself is not infallible, being human like everyone else, but when he in his official apostolic capacity declares *ex cathedra *(from the chair of Peter) a doctrine to be a divine truth revealed from God and to be believed by all the faithful without question (i.e., the Assumption of Mary into heaven), we believe it is in fact the Holy Spirit who makes the declaration through Christ’s vicar on earth and guarantees its freedom from error. What we have in the promulgation of any Church dogma - the majority of which were declared by popes in union with the college of bishops - is the final and irrevocable word of authority and a guaranty on what has been nonetheless until then an infallible teaching of the Church belonging to the deposit of faith. The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist by transubstantiation wasn’t declared dogma until the 13th century at the the Fourth Lateran Council, convoked by Pope Innocent lll in 1250. But this doctrine was an infallible teaching of the Church before then. The Apostolic Father, St. Ignatius of Antioch (c.A.D. 110), bears witness to this Catholic belief since earliest time.

PAX
:heaven:
 
Personally, I’m sorry to see Pope Benedict go. Even though I’m not Catholic I know that for many people throughout the world Christianity = the Pope. And I confess that I sometimes wish Christianity was as unified as it was in the first centuries and we all had a leader, a “Peter,” to point to as our standard bearer before the rest of the world. Benedict is such an intellectually courageous and profound thinker, more than a match for the skepticism of our age, entirely able to hold up and defend the Deposit of Faith before the rest of the world, that as a protestant I’ve been glad that this man is Pope. Actually, I feel similarly about the last several Popes, but knowing all he accompished as a cardinal, particularly under Pope John Paul II, I especially admire Benedict.

I pray that the Holy Spirit guides the next Conclave to an equally wise choice.
 
october_baby said:
The majority of the BBC comments posts were callous and cruel. Still alot of hatred for
catholicism…
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Yeah - Britain has become rabidly anti-religious since I left in 1980 (not because I left;)). I used to frequent a British expat forum but left because I was disgusted with the vitriol and unthinking hatred for anything religious.
 
exnihilo said:
First off I have great sympathy for my brothers and sisters in the Catholic Church. For them the Pope is both the anchor and helmsman for their boat. Those are contrary analogies but both true I think. For my brothers and sisters they are not only experiencing the sorrow of a loss which accompanies any end of a papacy but also experiencing shock at resignation which is no doubt unusual.

I also feel sadness for Christendom. It seems to me that the Pope Benedict was a good Christian leader. In this time we seem to have a deficiency in good leadership. While so many churches are being led down a deadly path the Catholic Church has held steady to important moral truths. This may not be the result of one man, the Pope, but it is plainly true that he has been one of those who has helped maintained Truth in our day.

Since the Catholic Church does contain the largest number of Christians on the planet I pray for comfort for those in her who mourn and God’s guidance for those who select a new Bishop of Rome.
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Beautifully written. Thank you very much. We trust in the Holy Spirit to guide the Cardinals to choose our next Pope. It’s God’s will.
 
Jennet said:
Yep! No pope is sinless… they just have the right to give infallible teaching on issues of faith and morals.
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I don’t know about Pope Benedict (although it would surprise me if the same isn’t true about him), but Pope John Paul II went to Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession/Penance) on a weekly basis. To me, that’s very inspirational.
 
My reaction:

“Those Cardinals better choose a Traditionalist.”

You know, some akin to Pius X.
 
october_baby said:
The majority of the BBC comments posts were callous and cruel. Still alot of hatred for
catholicism…
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Fellow classmate (Tiber Swim Team 2005) I am not surprised and frankly I am avoiding these sources for fear of losing my temper. As a convert I had NO IDEA of the animosity toward Catholicism at the time. It is truly stunning to me still but no longer a shocking. The Truth does make the Evil One very nervous!

Lisa
 
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