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In reply to the discussion: Does anyone really think the Pope's resignation is about anything other than child abuse? [View all]proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)5. No doubt in my mind.
I was shocked when he was named pope.
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Does anyone really think the Pope's resignation is about anything other than child abuse? [View all]
garybeck
Feb 2013
OP
Those cases started long before him and will continue long after him. So, I don't. nt
onehandle
Feb 2013
#2
Probably not true: "Ratzinger is up to his neck in the pedophile scandal."
Jackpine Radical
Feb 2013
#55
IF it is other than health, he must be getting pushed out, so watch who's NEXT.
WinkyDink
Feb 2013
#3
Yep - he knew what was going on and played a DIRECT role in the Cardinal Law coverup.
yellowcanine
Feb 2013
#30
other popes have been a lot more sick and frail than this and they stayed on until the end. n/t
garybeck
Feb 2013
#19
Yup.. The last Pope was barely coherent at most of his final appearances..
SomethingFishy
Feb 2013
#35
LOL! Popes have stayed in office through illness and died in the saddle for centuries.
backscatter712
Feb 2013
#41
Riiiiight. Bucking 600 years of history has nothing to do with pedophile cover ups.
morningfog
Feb 2013
#62
I'm just saying I don't think the existence of the scandal is enough for him to retire
el_bryanto
Feb 2013
#17
I read somewhere last Friday that the latest investigation includes the Pope. He was aware of the
OregonBlue
Feb 2013
#7
Yes. I don't think there's any evidence the See is terribly concerned about that
Recursion
Feb 2013
#16
I usually don't side with the Pope, but I think he retired for the reasons he said
Taverner
Feb 2013
#20
I do. He is ill and they cannot afford another long term feeble pope like JPII who did nothing to..
JVS
Feb 2013
#25
JPII did nothing to address the pedophile scandal because Ratzinger was actively directing the
yellowcanine
Feb 2013
#32
certainly his resignation right after the release of that 12,000 page report is interesting.
niyad
Feb 2013
#34
He wasn't up to dying in the saddle like all of his predecessors for centuries?
backscatter712
Feb 2013
#45
It may have been the financial scandal, not the child-molestation scandal.
backscatter712
Feb 2013
#44
I think it was his age, because the Vatican does not care what people think of the scandal.
hrmjustin
Feb 2013
#53
I wonder if this has something to do with the Pope's butler releasing documents.
Zen Democrat
Feb 2013
#54