Pope Benedict XVI 'to resign'

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@ cheezey: It’s authentic 🙂
Someone had this funny comment:
It happened during the time of JPII while Patriarch Bartholomew was visiting during the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul: who was reported as saying: “I can hear now what the Monks of Mt. Athos are saying about that!”
 
vames said:
@ cheezey: It’s authentic 🙂
Someone had this funny comment:
It happened during the time of JPII while Patriarch Bartholomew was visiting during the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul: who was reported as saying: “I can hear now what the Monks of Mt. Athos are saying about that!”
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I am very tired but cannot sleep. I get that it’s authentic, but you are saying it did NOT happen today? It’s just being used to coincide with today’s event? Seems that way.
I am not kidding. Sorry, I am not with it. Bad day. Very bad day.
And I couldn’t get to the comment. Thanks…
 
It was just posted a page or two ago and it is authentic, everyone and their uncle knows that.


dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2276884/Pope-Benedict-XVI-resigns-First-Pontiff-600-years-stand-longer-strength-carry-on.html#ixzz2Ke1BVlE9
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A signal from above? Lightning hits St Peter’s hours after Pope Benedict stuns cardinals with first resignation in 600 year**
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A sign from above, a hoax or one lucky break for Filippo Monteforte, the Italian shutterbug who is credited with capturing the image? According to news agency Agence France-Presse, Monteforte reportedly took the photo Monday. Skeptics, of course, doubted that anyone could get that lucky and questioned the photo’s authenticity, but others believed the photo was real and was a sign from above.
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now.msn.com/filippo-monteforte-photographed-lightning-striking-st-peters-basilica-the-day-pope-resigned
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Cheezey, look at this, it got reported in Italy too.

Fulmine is lightning in Italian.

Fulmine su San Pietro, la foto di Alessandro Di Meo
ragusanews.com/articolo/30227/fulmine-su-san-pietro-la-foto-di-alessandro-di-meo
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Una foto spettacolare sta facendo il giro del mondo sui social network. Nel tardo pomeriggio di oggi, giorno che passerà alla storia come quello delle dimissioni del Santo Padre, un violento temporale si è abbattuto su Roma.
E un fotografo dell’Ansa, Alessandro Di Meo, è riuscito a immortalare un fulmine che si abbatte sulla cupola di San Pietro.
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Translated:
A spectacular picture is doing around the world on social networks. In the late afternoon today, a day that will go down in history as that of resignation of the Holy Father, a violent storm hit Rome.
And a photographer of Ansa, Alessandro Di Meo, managed to capture a lightning that makes landfall on the dome of St. Peter 's.
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A photographer from Ansa took the photo though the names of the photographers seem different in the English language stories and the Italian language stories, must have happened today.

ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/politica/2013/02/11/Benedetto-XVI-lascia-pontificato-Papa-dimette-28-febbraio_8225601.html

So if this was a photograph from the past, we have a conspiracy in the English language stories and the Italian language ones.

Montforte, in the AFP (Agence France Presse) seemingly is a French name.
 
To say that there is no liberal and conservative in the Church and within certain Pope’s is not totally correct. Let’s look at Pope Benedict. He issued the SP that granted the TLM that any Priest can say that Mass without his Bishop’s permission. That is a conservative action that the Pope didn’t have to make. He also removed the excommunications on the SSPX Bishops. He didn’t have to and it was certainly something that some Conservatives would applaud. There are other examples.

What if the next Pope were to change the current indult on communion in the hand and mandate it as the norm? He certainly could and that would hardly be a conservative move but more a liberal one.
 
cheezey said:
I am very tired but cannot sleep. I get that it’s authentic, but you are saying it did NOT happen today? It’s just being used to coincide with today’s event? Seems that way.
I am not kidding. Sorry, I am not with it. Bad day. Very bad day.
And I couldn’t get to the comment. Thanks…
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It indeed happened today; the poster who commented there saw the picture and just recalled a similar incident from the pontificate of JPII and the joke of JPII on that occasion.
 
JMJSHJ said:
What if the next Pope were to change the current indult on communion in the hand and mandate it as the norm? He certainly could and that would hardly be a conservative move but more a liberal one.
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But why? Both forms coexist pretty fine.
 
BroomWagon said:
It was just posted a page or two ago and it is authentic, everyone and their uncle knows that.
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I cannot be an uncle, but I am part of the everybody and yet, no, I didn’t know, which is why I was genuinely curious and asked as such. And again, I have had a brutal day.
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So if this was a photograph from the past, we have a conspiracy in the English language stories and the Italian language ones.
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And we don’t. I was just asking for clarification.
vames said:
It indeed happened today; the poster who commented there saw the picture and just recalled a similar incident from the pontificate of JPII and the joke of JPII on that occasion.
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Thank you, vames, for helping me to understand the matter. 🙂
 
BroomWagon said:
A photographer from Ansa took the photo though the names of the photographers seem different in the English language stories and the Italian language stories, must have happened today.

ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/politica/2013/02/11/Benedetto-XVI-lascia-pontificato-Papa-dimette-28-febbraio_8225601.html

So if this was a photograph from the past, we have a conspiracy in the English language stories and the Italian language ones.

Montforte, in the AFP (Agence France Presse) seemingly is a French name.
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[BIBLEDRB]Daniel 3:73[/BIBLEDRB]
 
PazzoGrande said:
Expect someone in his 60s.

They typically alternate between younger and older Popes.
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I think you just made a lot of 60-somethings very happy with your comment there. Kidding aside, I do want them to pick someone younger, who’s closer to my generation. That said, I like Pope Benedict for upholding a lot of the traditional Catholic social doctrines, like the pro-life stance, traditional marriage, etc.

I also think that perhaps it’s time to select someone from the “developing world,” such as Africa or South America, because that’s where the Church is seeing the fastest growth.

So taken together, maybe a 50-something, conservative, African pope?
 
AllSeasons said:
I think you just made a lot of 60-somethings very happy with your comment there. Kidding aside, I do want them to pick someone younger, who’s closer to my generation. That said, I like Pope Benedict for upholding a lot of the traditional Catholic social doctrines, like the pro-life stance, traditional marriage, etc.

I also think that perhaps it’s time to select someone from the “developing world,” such as Africa or South America, because that’s where the Church is seeing the fastest growth.

So taken together, maybe a 50-something, conservative, African pope?
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Oh heavens I didn’t even think of that. This could be the first Pope that is younger than me.
Pres. Obama is the first president that is younger than me.
I still can’t get accustomed to my doctor being younger than me…😦
 
A lighthearted article on the best method for predicting our next Holy Father.

patheos.com/blogs/yimcatholic/2013/02/a-surefire-scientific-indicator-on-who-our-next-pope-will-be.html

A Surefire, Scientific, Indicator on Who Our Next Pope Will Be.
…while other folks start comparing candidates based on their holiness, theological acumen, age, smarts, or New Evangelization bonafides, my method looks for the Cardinals who are proudly drinking beer in public.
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God bless Pope Benedict.

He has been a faithful servant of God and a brilliant Pope. I pray that our Lord will give Cardinal Ratzinger peace in his remaining years and that he may watch from afar the pontificate of yet another faithful servant who will continue to build on the legacy that Pope Benedict XVI is leaving behind.
 
 
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jwinch2:
um, okay…hey, they get thirsty, too…
 
I feel as if I heard a dear friend has died! I pray that our next Pope is God’s perfect choice.

:gopray2:
 
cheezey said:
Oh heavens I didn’t even think of that. This could be the first Pope that is younger than me.
Pres. Obama is the first president that is younger than me.
I still can’t get accustomed to my doctor being younger than me…😦
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Yea, I think I’d feel a bit depressed if that happened. Haha! Luckily, I’m still in my early thirties.

But instead of guessing who’s going to be the next Pope, I want to refocus on Pope Benedict for a bit. He still has a little over 2 weeks in office. What do you think his legacy will be? I suppose it has been a bit of a transitional period after John Paul II, but I think he’s made his imprint on the papacy nonetheless. He’s also had to lead the Church through the sex abuse scandal, which was/is a difficult time for the Church. I think he’s also laid the groundwork for whoever becomes the next Pope. I think that maybe 50 years down the line, and we look back, we will perhaps see JPII, Benedict, and the next Pope as an era of holding fast to traditional Catholic teachings in a fast-changing modern world. Anyway, just my $0.02.
 
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