Johnny the rat goes down; this is a time to rejoice.
At one time, I was a Catholic, indeed, almost a priest, but I had to take stock of what I would have had to support if I took up the collar, and I decided that the church under John Paul II was too arrogant, too power-hungry to allow anyone to really work within the system anymore. There were times I would look back and wonder, but then when I saw that Johnny the Rat got promoted, I knew that the Church was not repenting of any of it's sins, and there did not deserve absolution from me, or anyone.
Let us not deny the glory of this hour: this is the FIRST POPE in 600 years to resign. Well before Leonardo Da Vinci painted, before anything that would be called the "Renaissance", long before any bunch of wig-wearing English and French even thought of anything called "The Enlightenment",before any Slave was brought from Africa to the Americas, the idea of any Pope resigning was simply not thought of. Let the Conservative Catholics on Fox News try to downplay this all they want, History was MADE here, every bit as much as when a man named Barack Hussein Obama won the Oval Office, and perhaps even more so.
What happened here is that courts, first in America, but then worldwide, Johann HIMSELF was caught and sued. Simply put, the paper trail leads to HIM, as documented in "mea maxima culpa, some snippets of which I share.
This is Johnny Rat fallign on his sword; his claim of bad health is a joke, especially since most of us remember John Paul beign frail,yet still managing to canonize Jose Escrima (opus Dei's founder).
The bad guys lost, and the church had to be affected by the outside, period.@
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