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ooman: The flying roll is an allegory of laws that is being passed and which everyone is aware of.

The woman sitting in an ephah or basket is the same woman being refered to in Rev 17 v - 6. She is Babylon, the great, mother of all prostitutes and obscenities in the world. The Ephah she was sitting on is the scarlet beast that had seven heads and ten horns with blasphemy written all over it.

Actually, some have translated Rome, the catholic church, new world order as the scarlet beast she was sitting on.

Try to read for your self, Rev 17, you will understand Zechariah.

hmm.

staremysta: There is no need to use offensive language or speech.

Do yourself the favour of finding out truth for your own self.

Read this article.

http://timetrump..com/2013/03/on-pope-benedict-xvi-resignation.html

be careful of d kind of blogs u visit. Some do more harm dan good.

[quote author=IKO1]when will the eletion begin?[/quote]they haven't even set d date for the conclave. The congregation begins on monday, when d complete number of cardinal elector have arrived rome then they will set the date for conclave.

striktlymi: Journey mercies to every one of them traveling!

amen

On the first day of Sede Vacante, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Dean of the College of Cardinals, has sent out a letter summoning the cardinals to the first General Congregation, which will begin on Monday, March 4th at the Synod of Bishops Hall. A second General Congregation will take place in the afternoon.

In conformity with the Apostolic Constitution Universi Dominici Gregis, the General Congregations are held prior to the beginning of the conclave. The constitution states that “all cardinals who are not legitimately impeded must attend the General Congregations, once they have been informed of the vacancy of the Apostolic See.”

Citing no. 19 of the Apostolic Constitution, Cardinal Sodano stated that as Dean of the College of Cardinals, he is performing his duty to communicate officially to "the news of the vacancy of the Apostolic See due to the resignation presented by Pope Benedict XVI, and effective since yesterday evening, February 28, at 8:00 pm in Rome.”

The Dean of the College of Cardinals went on to inform the Cardinals of the date, place and time of the first congregation on Monday.

“The General Congregations will then continue regularly, until the complete number of Cardinal electors has been reached and the College of Cardinals then decides the date of entrance into Conclave of those Cardinal electors as prescribed by the recent Motu Proprio of this past 22 February concerning some changes to the rules regarding the election of the Roman Pontiff,” the letter continued.

During a press briefing today, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See Press Office, said that there is no information yet as to how many cardinals are present in Rome at the moment because many are still arriving. Fr. Lombardi also stated that it is highly unlikely that a date on the start of the conclave will be announced after Monday’s meetings.



full text of Cardinal Sodano's letter

Lord Cardinal,

Analogously to what is prescribed by the Apostolic Constitution "Universi dominici gregis" of February 22, 1996 at no. 19, for the case of death of the Sovereign Pontiff, I perform my duty to communicate officially to Your Eminence the news of the vacancy of the Apostolic See due to the resignation presented by Pope Benedict XVI, and effective since yesterday evening, February 28, at 8:00 pm in Rome.

In communicating the foregoing, I fulfill my duty to convoke Your Eminence to the first of the General Congregations of the College of Cardinals, to be held Monday, March 4 at 9:30 am in Paul VI Hall, in the room of the Synod of Bishops.

The General Congregations will then continue regularly, until the complete number of Cardinal electors has been reached and the College of Cardinals then decides the date of entrance into Conclave of those Cardinal electors as prescribed by the recent Motu Proprio of this past 22 February concerning some changes to the rules regarding the election of the Roman Pontiff.

For my part I am pleased to take this opportunity to extend my fraternal greetings.


Cordially in Domino,

+ Angelo Card. Sodano

http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/cardinal-sodano-s-letter-to-cardinals

i won't be suprised if none of the above becomes pope

okeyxyz: @italo'

You do not understand the passages(1 cor 7:1-9) you quoted; So I will go over them with you:

1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
#To "touch" here does not mean to abstain from s.exual intercourse. You bible version is an huge mistranslation\miistunderstanding of original scripture. I'd simply ask you to look at a bible concordance\dictionary, you'd see that "touch" here means to posses a woman for yourself alone, in other words: to marry

2 But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. 3 The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5 Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
#Immoralities here means the negative emotions associated with sexual relationships; ie: jealousy, bitterness, quarrels, etc. So immorality comes about when sex is given\taken unwillingly or without love. From pauls coversations, it is apparent that they were sharing sex partners as a result of the liberties that comes with christianity(Yes! this was the original christian doctrine) but because some(or most) people were not happy with sharing their partners, then prompted Paul to direct every man to stick to his wife and every woman to stick to her husband in order to avoid fornication(quarrels\jealousy\etc).

6 But this I say by way of concession, not of command. 7 Yet I wish that all men were even as I myself am. However, each man has his own gift from God, one in this manner, and another in that. 8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them if they remain even as I. 9 But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
#Paul says this directive is conceeded\allowed, though not perfect. That is: the perfect type of a relationship is an unmarried one, but if your emotions does not allow you to share, then it's better to marry and own your woman\man than to burn with passion(again, passion is an negative emotion like jealousy, it does not mean s.exual urge as people interpret it today). Paul empassizes that it is better not to marry and encourages EVERYBODY to be like himself, he doesn't say that it is better not to have s.ex. We understand that Paul and the apostles were not married but I can't believe that they were not having s.ex. IMPOSSIBLE!!!. Abstinence from sex is not a holy act, it is a pagan practice, with nothing to do with christianity. Those who espouse celibacy as a holy discipline simply have no understanding. Take this if you can: The perfect sex is sex without marriage because marriage itself is the root of all negative emotions about sex.

ofcouseu are not a christain

As the clock struck 8 yesterday evening, the time of Sede Vacante began, thus officially ending the pontificate of Benedict XVI, now Pope Emeritus. The Swiss Guards, who are charged with the protection of the Holy Father, closed the doors of the Apostolic Palace and departed from Castel Gandolfo.

At a press conference today at the Vatican, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See Press Office, showed journalists a video of yesterday’s events after the Sede Vacante began. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Camerlengo or Chamberlain, sealed off the papal apartments in Rome. Also present were Cardinal Pier Luigi Celata, Vice Camerlengo, and several prelates who work in the Pontifical household.

Fr. Lombardi also said that Cardinal Celata sealed the papal apartments in the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, the ecclesiastical seat of the Bishop of Rome.

Fr. Lombardi also spoke of the first hours of Benedict XVI as Pope Emeritus. The director of the Holy See Press Office said that he spoke with Archbishop Georg Gänswein, Benedict's secretary and prefect of the Papal Household, who said that His Holiness was very “calm and serene”.

Benedict XVI had “watched several news programs and expressed his appreciation for the work of the journalists as well as for the participation of those who had assisted in his departure from the Vatican. Shortly after a brief walk through the Apostolic Palace, he went to bed and according to Archbishop Gänswein, slept very well.

This morning, His Holiness celebrated Mass at 7:00 am followed by praying the Liturgy of the Hours. At 4:00pm, the Pope Emeritus of Rome will plan to walk through the gardens of the Apostolic Palace of Castel Gandolfo and pray the rosary.

Fr. Lombardi stated that among the various books on theology and church history that the Pope has brought with him, Archbishop Gänswein noted that currently Benedict XVI is reading famed theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theological Aesthetics.

Cosmopolice: The myth of altruism and generosity surrounding Mother Teresa is dispelled in a paper by Serge Larivée and Genevieve Chenard of University of Montreal’s Department of Psychoeducation and Carole Sénéchal of the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Education.

The paper will be published in the March issue of the journal Studies in Religion/Sciences religieuses and is an analysis of the published writings about Mother Teresa. Like the journalist and author Christopher Hitchens, who is amply quoted in their analysis, the researchers conclude that her hallowed image—which does not stand up to analysis of the facts—was constructed, and that her beatification was orchestrated by an effective media relations campaign.

“While looking for documentation on the phenomenon of altruism for a seminar on ethics, one of us stumbled upon the life and work of one of Catholic Church’s most celebrated woman and now part of our collective imagination—Mother Teresa—whose real name was Agnes Gonxha,” says Professor Larivée, who led the research. “The description was so ecstatic that it piqued our curiosity and pushed us to research further.”

As a result, the three researchers collected 502 documents on the life and work of Mother Teresa. After eliminating 195 duplicates, they consulted 287 documents to conduct their analysis, representing [/size][size=8pt]96% of the literature on the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity (OMC). Facts debunk the myth of Mother Teresa
In their article, Serge Larivée and his colleagues also cite a number of problems not take into account by the Vatican in Mother Teresa’s beatification process, such as “her rather dubious way of caring for the sick, her questionable political contacts, her suspicious management of the enormous sums of money she received, and her overly dogmatic views regarding, in particular, abortion, contraception, and divorce.”

‘The sick must suffer like Christ on the cross’
At the time of her death, Mother Teresa had opened 517 missions welcoming the poor and sick in more than 100 countries. The missions have been described as “homes for the dying” by doctors visiting several of these establishments in Calcutta. Two-thirds of the people coming to these missions hoped to a find a doctor to treat them, while the other third lay dying without receiving appropriate care. The doctors observed a significant lack of hygiene, even unfit conditions, as well as a shortage of actual care, inadequate food, and no painkillers. The problem is not a lack of money—the Foundation created by Mother Teresa has raised hundreds of millions of dollars—but rather a particular conception of suffering and death: “There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ’s Passion. The world gains much from their suffering,” was her reply to criticism, cites the journalist Christopher Hitchens. Nevertheless, when Mother Teresa required palliative care, she received it in a modern American hospital.

Mother Teresa’s questionable politics and shadowy accounting
Mother Teresa was generous with her prayers but rather miserly with her foundation’s millions when it came to humanity’s suffering. During numerous floods in India or following the explosion of a pesticide plant in Bhopal, she offered numerous prayers and medallions of the Virgin Mary but no direct or monetary aid. On the other hand, she had no qualms about accepting the Legion of Honour and a grant from the Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti. Millions of dollars were transferred to the MCO’s various bank accounts, but most of the accounts were kept secret, Larivée says. “Given the parsimonious management of Mother Theresa’s works, one may ask where the millions of dollars for the poorest of the poor have gone?”

The grand media plan for Mother Teresa’s holiness
Despite these disturbing facts, how did Mother Teresa succeed in building an image of holiness and infinite goodness? According to the three researchers, her meeting in London in 1968 with the BBC’s Malcom Muggeridge, an anti-abortion journalist who shared her right-wing Catholic values, was crucial. Muggeridge decided to promote Teresa, who consequently discovered the power of mass media. In 1969, he made a eulogistic film of the missionary, promoting her by attributing to her the “first photographic miracle,” when it should have been attributed to the new film stock being marketed by Kodak. Afterwards, Mother Teresa travelled throughout the world and received numerous awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize. In her acceptance speech, on the subject of Bosnian women who were raped by Serbs and now sought abortion, she said: “I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a direct war, a direct killing—direct murder by the mother herself.”
Following her death, the Vatican decided to waive the usual five-year waiting period to open the beatification process. The miracle attributed to Mother Theresa was the healing of a woman, Monica Besra, who had been suffering from intense abdominal pain. The woman testified that she was cured after a medallion blessed by Mother Theresa was placed on her abdomen. Her doctors thought otherwise: the ovarian cyst and the tuberculosis from which she suffered were healed by the drugs they had given her. The Vatican, nevertheless, concluded that it was a miracle. Mother Teresa’s popularity was such that she had become untouchable for the population, which had already declared her a saint. “What could be better than beatification followed by canonization of this model to revitalize the Church and inspire the faithful especially at a time when churches are empty and the Roman authority is in decline?” Larivée and his colleagues ask.

Positive effect of the Mother Teresa myth
Despite Mother Teresa’s dubious way of caring for the sick by glorifying their suffering instead of relieving it, Serge Larivée and his colleagues point out the positive effect of the Mother Teresa myth: “If the extraordinary image of Mother Teresa conveyed in the collective imagination has encouraged humanitarian initiatives that are genuinely engaged with those crushed by poverty, we can only rejoice. It is likely that she has inspired many humanitarian workers whose actions have truly relieved the suffering of the destitute and addressed the causes of poverty and isolation without being extolled by the media. Nevertheless, the media coverage of Mother Theresa could have been a little more rigorous.”

About the study
The study was conducted by Serge Larivée, Department of psychoeducation, University of Montreal, Carole Sénéchal, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa, and Geneviève Chénard, Department of psychoeducation, University of Montreal.

Read more at http://scienceblog.com/60730/mother-teresa-anything-but-a-saint/#GJctCAUj7u0Ms4xW.99

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Cosmopolice: The myth of altruism and generosity surrounding Mother Teresa is dispelled in a paper by Serge Larivée and Genevieve Chenard of University of Montreal’s Department of Psychoeducation and Carole Sénéchal of the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Education.

The paper will be published in the March issue of the journal Studies in Religion/Sciences religieuses and is an analysis of the published writings about Mother Teresa. Like the journalist and author Christopher Hitchens, who is amply quoted in their analysis, the researchers conclude that her hallowed image—which does not stand up to analysis of the facts—was constructed, and that her beatification was orchestrated by an effective media relations campaign.

“While looking for documentation on the phenomenon of altruism for a seminar on ethics, one of us stumbled upon the life and work of one of Catholic Church’s most celebrated woman and now part of our collective imagination—Mother Teresa—whose real name was Agnes Gonxha,” says Professor Larivée, who led the research. “The description was so ecstatic that it piqued our curiosity and pushed us to research further.”

As a result, the three researchers collected 502 documents on the life and work of Mother Teresa. After eliminating 195 duplicates, they consulted 287 documents to conduct their analysis, representing [/size][size=8pt]96% of the literature on the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity (OMC). Facts debunk the myth of Mother Teresa
In their article, Serge Larivée and his colleagues also cite a number of problems not take into account by the Vatican in Mother Teresa’s beatification process, such as “her rather dubious way of caring for the sick, her questionable political contacts, her suspicious management of the enormous sums of money she received, and her overly dogmatic views regarding, in particular, abortion, contraception, and divorce.”

‘The sick must suffer like Christ on the cross’
At the time of her death, Mother Teresa had opened 517 missions welcoming the poor and sick in more than 100 countries. The missions have been described as “homes for the dying” by doctors visiting several of these establishments in Calcutta. Two-thirds of the people coming to these missions hoped to a find a doctor to treat them, while the other third lay dying without receiving appropriate care. The doctors observed a significant lack of hygiene, even unfit conditions, as well as a shortage of actual care, inadequate food, and no painkillers. The problem is not a lack of money—the Foundation created by Mother Teresa has raised hundreds of millions of dollars—but rather a particular conception of suffering and death: “There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ’s Passion. The world gains much from their suffering,” was her reply to criticism, cites the journalist Christopher Hitchens. Nevertheless, when Mother Teresa required palliative care, she received it in a modern American hospital.

Mother Teresa’s questionable politics and shadowy accounting
Mother Teresa was generous with her prayers but rather miserly with her foundation’s millions when it came to humanity’s suffering. During numerous floods in India or following the explosion of a pesticide plant in Bhopal, she offered numerous prayers and medallions of the Virgin Mary but no direct or monetary aid. On the other hand, she had no qualms about accepting the Legion of Honour and a grant from the Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti. Millions of dollars were transferred to the MCO’s various bank accounts, but most of the accounts were kept secret, Larivée says. “Given the parsimonious management of Mother Theresa’s works, one may ask where the millions of dollars for the poorest of the poor have gone?”

The grand media plan for Mother Teresa’s holiness
Despite these disturbing facts, how did Mother Teresa succeed in building an image of holiness and infinite goodness? According to the three researchers, her meeting in London in 1968 with the BBC’s Malcom Muggeridge, an anti-abortion journalist who shared her right-wing Catholic values, was crucial. Muggeridge decided to promote Teresa, who consequently discovered the power of mass media. In 1969, he made a eulogistic film of the missionary, promoting her by attributing to her the “first photographic miracle,” when it should have been attributed to the new film stock being marketed by Kodak. Afterwards, Mother Teresa travelled throughout the world and received numerous awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize. In her acceptance speech, on the subject of Bosnian women who were raped by Serbs and now sought abortion, she said: “I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a direct war, a direct killing—direct murder by the mother herself.”
Following her death, the Vatican decided to waive the usual five-year waiting period to open the beatification process. The miracle attributed to Mother Theresa was the healing of a woman, Monica Besra, who had been suffering from intense abdominal pain. The woman testified that she was cured after a medallion blessed by Mother Theresa was placed on her abdomen. Her doctors thought otherwise: the ovarian cyst and the tuberculosis from which she suffered were healed by the drugs they had given her. The Vatican, nevertheless, concluded that it was a miracle. Mother Teresa’s popularity was such that she had become untouchable for the population, which had already declared her a saint. “What could be better than beatification followed by canonization of this model to revitalize the Church and inspire the faithful especially at a time when churches are empty and the Roman authority is in decline?” Larivée and his colleagues ask.

Positive effect of the Mother Teresa myth
Despite Mother Teresa’s dubious way of caring for the sick by glorifying their suffering instead of relieving it, Serge Larivée and his colleagues point out the positive effect of the Mother Teresa myth: “If the extraordinary image of Mother Teresa conveyed in the collective imagination has encouraged humanitarian initiatives that are genuinely engaged with those crushed by poverty, we can only rejoice. It is likely that she has inspired many humanitarian workers whose actions have truly relieved the suffering of the destitute and addressed the causes of poverty and isolation without being extolled by the media. Nevertheless, the media coverage of Mother Theresa could have been a little more rigorous.”

About the study
The study was conducted by Serge Larivée, Department of psychoeducation, University of Montreal, Carole Sénéchal, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa, and Geneviève Chénard, Department of psychoeducation, University of Montreal.

Read more at http://scienceblog.com/60730/mother-teresa-anything-but-a-saint/#GJctCAUj7u0Ms4xW.99

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alexleo: STOP BEING SILLY.

where everybody is silly and u are d only normal person then be careful u are not different from d mad man on d streets.

"I will simply be a pilgrim who is beginning the last part of his pilgrimage on earth."

These were some of the last words of Pope Benedict XVI, which he cheerfully delivered to the crowd gathered in the square beneath the Apostolic Palace of Castel Gandolfo. Just a few hours later, his resignation took effect, and the Swiss Guards – who only guard the Pope of Rome – left their post.

Crowds of pilgrims had gathered in the square hours before the Pope's arrival to Castel Gandolfo, praying the rosary, with all eyes facing the balcony where Benedict XVI would greet them for the last time as their Pontiff. The cheers swept the square when Benedict finally appeared at the window and delivered an unscripted address to those below. "I wish still with my heart, my love, my prayer, my reflection, with all my inner strength, to work for the common good and the good of the Church and of humanity," he said. "And I feel very much supported by your affection."

"Let's go forward with the Lord for the good of the Church and the world."

An Irish priest for the community of the Work of Jesus the High Priest, Fr. Patrick Cahill, was present in the square during the Pope's address. "It's emotional because it's the end of an era," he said. "People are happy for him, and yet sad to see him go."

Acknowledging that a papal resignation is a historical event, Fr. Cahill noted the Holy Father had "thought about this for a long time and prayed about it. … He feels that this is the best way to serve the Church, so we honor his decision."

"Obviously it leaves us in a very new situation now, because the conclave will begin soon enough," he continued. "We're praying and hoping for a good Holy Father to continue to guide us in what is a very stormy and dangerous time."

Dominic Mougel and Kayla Trautman, American students studying near Castel Gandolfo, were also in the square during the Pope's address.

"This was my first and last time seeing the Pope in person," said Mougel, who arrived in Italy shortly after the Pope's resignation was announced.

"It was an amazing experience, and it brought my faith together," he said. "It was a great thing to witness."

Trautman said she was touched when the Pope's first words were of thanks. "He thanked this crowd of people who came to support him. It was a moving moment for me to watch him, who has done so much for all of us, to thank us, instead of us thanking him."

Having never been overseas before this trip, she went on to note the significance of being in Italy at such a historic time. "Not only do I get to be here and experience the culture, but I was here for the Pope's last audience as pope. And I also get to experience the new pope. Having two popes in one visit is an experience of a lifetime."

Dominic McGrattan, a seminarian for the Irish College in Rome, shared his sentiments about seeing the Holy Father for the last time. "We're very much in uncharted territory at the minute; nothing like this has happened in living memory. We're all coming to terms with the shock of the decision."

He continued: "What you can sense here today is a gratitude, and almost celebration, of the life of service that our Holy Father has given us. We very much wish him well, and are consoled by the knowledge that he is continuing to pray with us, and will continue on the pilgrim journey."

[quote author=tpia@]the info was published as soon as he became pope.

I was one of the viewers during the papal election.

his maternal ancestry is italian but currently of german origin (or vice versa).

you can still see the italian in his features.[/quote]u are right though, he may also have distant jewish ancestry

[quote author=Mr_Anony2]We believe in Marx, Freud, and Darwin. We believe that everything is ok, as long as you don’t hurt anyone, to the best of your definition of hurt, and to the best of your definition of knowledge. We believe in sex before, during and after marriage, we believe in the therapy of sin. We believe that adultery is fun, we believe that sodomy is ok, we believe that taboo’s are taboo. We believe that everything is getting better despite evidence to the contrary. The evidence must be investigated and you can prove anything with evidence. We believe there is something in horoscopes, UFO’s and bent spoons. Jesus was a good man just like Buddha, Muhammad and ourselves. We believe he was a good moral teacher although we think his good morals were really bad. We believe that all religions are basically the same, at least the one that we read was. They all believe in love and goodness, they only differ in matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.

We believe that after death comes nothing because when you ask the dead they say nothing. If death is not the end then there is heaven for all except maybe Hitler, Stalin, and Khan. We believe in Masters and Johnson, what is selected is average, and what is average is normal and what is normal is good. We believe in total disarmament, we believe there are direct links between warfare and bloodshed, and that the Americans should beat their guns into tractors and the Russians will be sure to follow. We believe that man is essentially good, it is only his behavior that lets him down. This is the fault of society, society is the fault of conditions, and conditions are the fault of society. If man does what is right for him, then reality will adapt accordingly. The universe will re-adjust, history will alter. We believe there is no absolute truth except that there is no absolute truth. We believe in the rejection of creeds and the flowering of individual thought.

If chance is the father of all flesh, then disaster is his rainbow in the sky. When in a state of emergency the sniper kills the child, the youth go looting, or bomb blasts rock the school, it is nothing more than the sound of man worshiping his maker.[/quote]hehehe

nairaarea: [size=18pt]O God eternal Shepherd, who govern your flock with unfailing care, grant in your fatherly boundless love, a pastor for your Church who will please you by his holiness and to us show watchful care. Through our LORD Jesus Christ Your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever. Amen.[/size]

amen

ooman: Ah, Frosbel, you got it wrong

Head of church (True or False)= President: Jesus Christ. Vice President: Pope

1. World Power and Politics - POPE? YES. JESUS? YES (King of the Jews, remember?)

2. War and Pillage - POPE? YES. JESUS? YES (battle of Armageddon)

3. Saving lives - POPE? YES (Charity). JESUS? Half YES (unproved promises of eternal life)

4. Wealth - POPE? YES. JESUS? YES. He had everything he wanted, remember when he got a penny from the fish's mouth to pay his tax and when he pirated fishes to feed 5000 men.

5. Reverence for God Almighty - POPE? YES (directs people to Mary, who direct people to God) JESUS? YES AND NO (Both direct people to God and himself -remember this verse- I am the way, the truth and the light. NO MAN GOES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT BY ME.)

6. intimate perversion. POPE? YES (Although the Pope gives absolution to sinners and himself). JESUS? YES (According to Gospel of Mary Magdalene, Levi said Jesus loved Mary more than all other disciples. Philip said he used to "Kill her on the mouth"-Gospel of Philip)

7. Mary - POPE? YES (Prays to her). JESUS? NO ANSWER (we cannot prove or disprove Jesus does not pray to her!)

frosbel has met his/her companion.

Basket mouth of nairaland, really funny.

alexleo: Use your brain and stop being foolish. For a man in such an exalted position to resign goes beyond Medical reason or whatever gay allegation in the vatican city. When last did a pope resign? I still believe that there is no physical challenge that can subdue a Pope to resignation when he has almost everything going for him. It is only a very serious matter such as preparing oneself for eternity that can make such a personality drop his exalted post. You people are opening your mouth and closing it because you dont understand what takes place in a man who is faced with the truth of eternity and who actually wants to prepare for it. Everything in life becomes nonsense to him and the only thing that will matter to him is the eternity that he's got to face in not-too long to come time. I still believe the old man is faced with the truth that his life's clock is ticking out and if he must make heaven he has to get himself out of the nonsense entanglements in the vatican city and genuinely make his ways with God straight. He must have told himself the truth that heaven does not recognize a pope or a bishop or a General overseer. What heaven recognizes is holiness without which no man can see God.

alexleo: This is just my thought about the reason the pope resigned. I believe he must have told himself the truth about how some of their doctrines and traditions runs contrary to the bible and the danger it poses for him at the judgment throne. He must have told himself the truth about the unbiblical and unholy hidden practices that is attached to the personality and office of a pope and the danger it poses for him at the judgment throne. He must have reminded himself of the truth that GOD IS NOT A RESPECTER OF PERSONS. At this last lap of his life's journey, he must have thought it wise that its better he steps out of this office and make a genuine repentance that will make him truly a heavenly candidate than retaining the office with whatever sinful strings attached to it and going to hell, hence the resignation. He must have told himself that an eternal rest with God still remains the most important thing than going to hell. He must have heard the testimony of Pope John Paul in hell and decided not to wave it off with hands as other catholics are doing. He must have told himself that fighting the ungodly practices in catholic might lead to a total chaos that will shake catholic and christianity at large and opted to rather step out and work out his own salvation while praying too for the church to be liberated from the grip of those ungodly practices. This might be a wise pope indeed. I pray God to use this period of his private life to revive him, visit him with genuine salvation and prepare him for heaven. This is just my humble thought. I may be right or wrong, totally right or totally wrong, a little right or a little wrong. ONLY GOD KNOWS THE TRUTH.

hahahahaha, really funny, ur jokes are beautiful.

Hahahahaha, really funny, provide the source please!

The title isnt correct, pope emeritus will be coming back to d vatican after his monastry has been completed and the conclave.
The vatican is the pope's retirement home so he isnt "finally" leaving.

peteregwu: What is it that I don't know? I hav worshipped in catholic before. The thing with so many members of catholic is that they don't read the bible. If they do, believe me they will have a lot of question to ask their priest. In fact, the truth they will discover will not allow them to remain as catholic. They will have to leave, because the spirit of truth in the bible will push out of false churches to a true church.

i guess u have succeeded in misinterpreting d bible, welldone.

bigtt76: ...So what happens when the next Pope too decides to step aside and Benedict is still alive rocking the 'retirement home'? I ask this because I foresee the next Pope stepping aside ...stress for Vatican no bi today tin o!

benedict is going to a monastry with about 7 cells he will occupy 1 cell, if another resigns we just give him one of d cells

Frankie9ice: Guy I beg be careful what u say esp if u ain't sure. Oyedepo & Adeboye richer than all d cardinals in Rome? Truth is d wealth d Catholic Church in Nigeria alone controls both Winners Chapel & RCCG put 2geda can't amass it in anoda 50yrs. Am not a Catholic (at least not anymore),...but d Catholic Church is a goldmine. The Vatican practically has d largest stash of gold worldwide (ie besides d US Federal Reserve),...abeg just dig around a a bit and u wud be amazed by wat u find out. The difference btw d Catholic clergy and our folks in RCCG n Winners is d fact dt d Catholic clergy aint flamboyant one bit. Some 3yrs ago I used to know closely a Catholic bishop whose diocese covered 3 different states in d North,...even in his late 60s-early 70s Bishop Kevin only used a Regular Benz (200) & a Corolla first lady. It was shortly b4 his retirement dt I began to see him wit a '99 Sienna. His sitting room was neither rugged nor tiled,...u won't even find sofa in his residence,and yet he controlled d wealth of d Catholic church for the entire North west of Nigeria. 98% of Pentecostal pastors in his position wud be so flamboyant & extravagant dt dey wud use d latest rides in town,and perhaps own a private jet or two for effects.

d bishop and priest has a fixed stipend/allowance, ur comparism of wealth isnt really true though.

booqee: So who's gon be occupying dat seat temporarily before another pope is elected??

no one! Sede vacante is initiated meaning d see is vacant. The conclave etc is d work of d first among equals dat is d dean of cardinals.

Nuncio does not have a choice, he is duty bound to take whatever they reported and channel it to d right authority. He isnt even suppose to ask questions. But d situation is there 4 all to see. D accusations only surface 30yrs after d incident! If their accusation is true, then they had d opportunity of reporting d guy yrs ago and make sure he didnt try d nonsense with others.

[quote author=tpia@]he's actually of italian ancestry as well, not sure why its only the german part people are seeing.

he doesnt even look german, imo.

he's more of a meditterranean(sp) appearance.[/quote]e b like say u go trace e ancestry?

Hope this time u don't have ur mind fixed one someone, hope u don't get disappointed.

Kay 17: Ubenedictus, your claim is unsubstantiated!

i find it quite interesting that u claim my claims are unsubstantiated, b4 u make such claim u should endeavour to show exactly which of my statements is unsubstantiated, if u can't then i'm compelled not to take u seriously.

italo: I love my good old 'German Shepherd!'

hope u know say german shepherd na dog?