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Ann | 12:17 Mon 11th Feb 2013 | News
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No reason given ....... no Pope has ever resigned since 13th century.
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WOW Really??
Uh oh scandal!!
Isn't he ill?
Breaking News, where?
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Speculation that it is his health ..... but why not say "health reasons?"
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what is all that about? i fear there is a whitewash coming.
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Just heard it on Radio 5 Live but announced initially from Italian News Agency
Probably because he can't put up with all the pretence at his age. It's all too much for an older guy. ;-)
Maybe he is responsible for the horsemeat scandal!
'Speculation that its his health'

Well Ann86 what do you think it is?
Did he ever know Jimmy Saville ?
Wouldn't surprise me if he's heading off a scandal that's about to break concerning his conduct some years ago.
The previous pope was ill for so long and wasnt capable of doing his duties... but it is a "until you die" kind of job.. Perhaps he wants to enjoy his retirement, tend his garden, read the paper...!!
He is getting on now....never felt right..a German pope !
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I have no idea FGT - but appparently he is 86 so maybe the busy life is too much for him, sounds like health reasons from the actual statement he gave.
how can you resign from such a role? It's not like it's a 9-5 salaried job, he's got room and board and his clothes are paid for, can't he just shuffle along? unless there is some mental capaity issue, physical conditions should be borne by the papal leader surely.
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The full statement.

The Vatican Radio website has the full text of the pope's statement today. Here it is in full:

Dear Brothers,

I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonisations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry.

I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the bark of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognise my incapacity to adequately fulfil the ministry entrusted to me.

For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is.

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. And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff. With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer.

From the Vatican, 10 February 2013

Yep, maybe some scandal from his earlier life, I do hope not!

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