The Pope to Resign.

[Merlot Joe]

This will be interesting to see if it starts a precedence in the Catholic Church. Being Pope may no be your last job on this earth. Your to old so you quit. Iike the idea.

I guess he is resigning on Feb.28th.

How will the Catholic Church handle a living ex-pope?

The resignation of Benedict XVI raises a conundrum not faced by the Catholic Church for centuries: How do you handle a still living ex-pope?

For the entire 2,000 year history of the Church, the accepted orthodoxy has been for a pope to rule until he dies. A select group of cardinals then get together in a secretive conclave and a successor is chosen, in a clean break from the past.

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[Chicago Jake]

I'd like to see this start a trend with some of our politicians.

As for the soon-to-be-ex Pope, I doubt they will have to worry about him for long. My guess is that his imminent mortality is what made up his mind to throw in the cassock. He probably wanted to spend his remaining weeks not being bothered by the pressures of the job.

[Merlot Joe]

Feb 11, 2013 17:53:22 GMT -6 Chicago Jake said:

I'd like to see this start a trend with some of our politicians.

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Term limits would be great.



They say that the soon to be Past Pope is not resign because of his health.

[Chicago Jake]

He said himself that it was because of his health; that he didn't have the strength to fulfill his duties to the church.

And term limits for politicians is a bad idea. They take power away from the voters. The ability to THROW OUT a cheating, conniving, lying bastard of a politician is a right reserved for the voters. Term limits takes that away, and is wrong, wrong, wrong (in my humble opinion).

[Merlot Joe]

Feb 12, 2013 1:09:57 GMT -6 Chicago Jake said:

He said himself that it was because of his health; that he didn't have the strength to fulfill his duties to the church.

And term limits for politicians is a bad idea. They take power away from the voters. The ability to THROW OUT a cheating, conniving, lying bastard of a politician is a right reserved for the voters. Term limits takes that away, and is wrong, wrong, wrong (in my humble opinion).

I didn't here the part that he said it was due to his health. Good for him it's about time one of them spoke up about having an 85 year old run the damn place.


As far as term limits go I do agree with you in a way. But it seem that the idea of voting the fuckers out office is not working very good. Just think who would still be President if it wasn't for term limits. Clinton might of made it his life's work and I think he could have won 2 or 3 more terms as President.

If we can't vote the fuckers out the let's at least have the term limits to fall back on. 4 terms (8 years) for congress and 2 terms(12 years for the Senate.