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Pope is stepping down

Post by Lichtgestalt » 12th Feb, '13, 03:47

Debatable if he was the pope the church needed but at least he wasn't clinging onto power like the last one did.

Guess Lloyd Blankfein is applying for the job now
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Re: Pope is stepping down

Post by Kooky » 12th Feb, '13, 04:22

I don't do the twitter thing but a friend shared this on FB, made me chuckle:

@sixthformpoet: The Pope is hardly the first person to lose interest in their real job so soon after joining Twitter."
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Post by chocolate » 12th Feb, '13, 09:17

@kooky ... lol
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Re: Pope is stepping down

Post by daffodil » 12th Feb, '13, 18:25

If I'm understanding the news reports, he's the only Pope to have resigned in around 600 years. So, did most of his predecessors die on the job? Or were they voted out of office?
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Re: Pope is stepping down

Post by Pinklepurr » 12th Feb, '13, 19:07

They normqlly just stay to the end...dying in the job. Happens a lot because most of them are so old when they become Pope. The way I see it this one was quite intelligent in taking retirement.;)
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Re: Pope is stepping down

Post by Lichtgestalt » 12th Feb, '13, 21:34

daffodil wrote:If I'm understanding the news reports, he's the only Pope to have resigned in around 600 years. So, did most of his predecessors die on the job? Or were they voted out of office?
Yup, I think one stepped down voluntarily (some 600 years ago) and one was forced to step down. That's the good part of the job... you can't be voted out of office. The only way out is to step down yourself or die.
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Re: Pope is stepping down

Post by Lichtgestalt » 12th Feb, '13, 21:36

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Re: Pope is stepping down

Post by Joseph27 » 13th Feb, '13, 04:18

Given that the Pope is appointed by God through the mechandism of the concave (however you spell it) it would seem an affront to quit... Cant help but to be cynical and see that he wants some hand influencing the successor who is bound to be a strict conservative
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