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Pope Benedict to resign at the end of the month, Vatican says
Rome (CNN) -- Pope Benedict XVI will resign on February 28, his spokesman Father Federico Lombardi told CNN Monday.
The 85-year-old pope is resigning "because of advanced age," Benedict told the cardinals of the Catholic Church on Monday.
"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 recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me," the pope told the cardinals, according to the Vatican.
The last pope to resign was Gregory XII in 1415. He did so to end a civil war within the church in which more than one man claimed to be pope.
Pope Benedict to resign 2005: Pope Benedict XVI gives first Mass
Benedict, the 265th pope, is the sixth German to serve as pope and the first since the 11th century. He became pope in 2005.
He has led church after the third-longest papacy in church history and during a time in which the church is declining in his native Europe but expanding in Africa and Latin America.
Benedict's time as pope has been marked with a series of scandals and controversies, including hundreds of new allegations of sexual abuse by priests.
CNN's Chelsea J. Carter and Richard Allen Greene contributed to this report.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/11/world/europe/pope-benedict-resignation/?hpt=hp_t1
The 85-year-old pope is resigning "because of advanced age," Benedict told the cardinals of the Catholic Church on Monday.
"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 recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me," the pope told the cardinals, according to the Vatican.
The last pope to resign was Gregory XII in 1415. He did so to end a civil war within the church in which more than one man claimed to be pope.
Pope Benedict to resign 2005: Pope Benedict XVI gives first Mass
Benedict, the 265th pope, is the sixth German to serve as pope and the first since the 11th century. He became pope in 2005.
He has led church after the third-longest papacy in church history and during a time in which the church is declining in his native Europe but expanding in Africa and Latin America.
Benedict's time as pope has been marked with a series of scandals and controversies, including hundreds of new allegations of sexual abuse by priests.
CNN's Chelsea J. Carter and Richard Allen Greene contributed to this report.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/11/world/europe/pope-benedict-resignation/?hpt=hp_t1
Actually, you are not the first person that has expressed those thoughts sm. There is hope on the horizon possibly. I heard on cnn a few people express the very same thoughts when they were interviewed. I do wonder if his health is okay or if he is just experiencing the slowness of old age. Whichever, the last time this happened was back in the 1400's they say. Wow!
This Catholic girl wasn't thrilled with this pope. He was old school and changed the language of the mass so that it is not user friendly and refused to evolve in any way regarding being more modern. He was a good man but I wish I could help the church with the direction they should take. Think that would ever happen?? ha ha.
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