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St. Malachy Prophecies: The End of Religion - The Last Pope (Petrus Romanus)
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<blockquote data-quote="Opmmur" data-source="post: 65155" data-attributes="member: 13"><p><span style="font-size: 26px"><strong>Pope Benedict XVI to step aside on Feb. 28, 2013</strong></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">The 85-year-old pope says he no longer has the strength to carry out his duties, announcing that he will resign effective February 28. NBC's Claudio Lavanga reports from Rome, who says the resignation "came as a shock."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">By Claudio Lavanga and Alastair Jamieson, NBC News</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Updated at 10:50 a.m. ET: </strong>ROME -- Pope Benedict XVI announced Monday he will step aside as leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics on Feb. 28, saying he no longer has the strength to carry out his duties.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Speaking in Latin, <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/33097264/ns/world_news-pope_benedict_xvi?q=Pope%20Benedict%20XVI" target="_blank">the 85-year-old</a> announced his decision during an address at the "Concistory for the canonization of the martyrs of Otranto", a small event held early in the morning.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">The decision makes him the first pope to resign since the Middle Ages.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">His <a href="http://en.radiovaticana.va/articolo.asp?c=663815" target="_blank">statement was posted</a> on the Vatican Radio website. Carrying out the duties of being pope required "both strength of mind and body," it said.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">"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," the pontiff's statement said.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">The choice was a "decision of great importance" for the church, the statement added.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">In an announcement that stunned Catholics around the world, Pope Benedict XVI revealed he will be stepping down from his position, citing failing strength. NBC's Michelle Kosinski reports on his eight years as pope.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">German news agency dpa quoted the pontiff's brother, Georg Ratzinger, as saying his brother was increasingly struggling to walk and had been contemplating stepping aside for several months. "His age is weighing on him," he reportedly added.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">There are several papal contenders in the wings, but no obvious front-runner, The Associated Press reported:</span></p><p> </p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 15px">Contenders to be his successor include Cardinal Angelo Scola, archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, the archbishop of Vienna, and Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the Canadian head of the Vatican's office for bishops.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Many Catholics were taken aback by the decision.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">"This was a huge shock to the church; nobody saw it coming [although there] might have been a few hints," said Christopher Lamb, Assistant Editor at Catholic weekly <a href="http://www.thetablet.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Tablet</a>. "But in many ways given that if you are getting old and finding it very difficult to run the church it is only the right thing to step down."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Reuters quoted a Vatican spokesman as saying the pontiff did not fear schism in the Church following his resignation.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">But while the day-to-day running of the church would go on, big decisions such as appointing new bishops and issuing papal documents would come to a halt until a new pontiff was chosen, Lamb said.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">"At the top level of the church there will be a freeze," he said.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">A complex sequence of events to elect the next pope has been set in course by the pope's announcement on Monday, although rules governing the selection are the same as those after a papal death.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>'A decision of great courage'</strong>Archbishop Vincent Nichols, president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, said that the pope's announcement had "shocked and surprised everyone."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">The archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, explains the "mixed emotions" he feels about the news that Pope Benedict XVI will resign on February 28, saying he feels a "special bond" with the pope.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">"Yet, on reflection, I am sure that many will recognize it to be a decision of great courage and characteristic clarity of mind and action," he added.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1927, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7523254..#.URjWjqUrdBk" target="_blank"> became the 265th pope in April 2005</a>, describing himself "a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Reuters noted:</span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 15px">Ratzinger served in the Hitler Youth during World War Two when membership was compulsory. He was never a member of the Nazi party and his family opposed Adolf Hitler's regime.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">His tough stance on theological issues had earned him the nickname "God's rottweiler." He was the oldest pope elected in nearly 300 years, according to The Associated Press.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she respected Pope Benedict's decision to step down.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">"If the pope himself, after thorough reflection, has come to the conclusion that he doesn't have the strength anymore to carry out his duties, then this has my utmost respect," she said at press conference on Monday.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">NBC New Vatican analyst George Weigel gives his thoughts on Pope Benedict XVI's announcement of his resignation, and explains how a new pope will be selected.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">She also praised him as "one of the most remarkable thinkers of our age."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">The last pope to step aside was Gregory XII in 1415, who did so in order to end the Great Western Schism.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Greg Burke, senior communications adviser to the Holy See, confirmed the pope will step down on February 28 at 8 p.m. local time (2 p.m. ET), leaving the office vacant until a successor is chosen.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">The Associated Press added:</span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 15px">The move sets the stage for the Vatican to hold a conclave to elect a new pope by mid-March, since the traditional mourning time that would follow the death of a pope doesn't have to be observed.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Reuters noted that Benedict XVI "ruled over a slower-paced, more cerebral and less impulsive Vatican."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">It added:</span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 15px">But while conservatives cheered him for trying to reaffirm traditional Catholic identity, his critics accused him of turning back the clock on reforms by nearly half a century and hurting dialogue with Muslims, Jews and other Christians. ...</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 15px">After appearing uncomfortable in the limelight at the start, he began feeling at home with his new job and showed that he intended to be pope in his way.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 15px">Despite great reverence for his charismatic, globe-trotting predecessor -- whom he put on the fast track to sainthood and whom he beatified in 2011 -- aides said he was determined not to change his quiet manner to imitate John Paul's style. ...</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 15px">The first German pope for some 1,000 years and the second non-Italian in a row, he traveled regularly, making about four foreign trips a year, but never managed to draw the oceanic crowds of his predecessor.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><a href="http://slideshow.nbcnews.com/id/47063826/displaymode/1247/?wbSlideShowId=47063826&wbSection=news" target="_blank">Slideshow: The life of Pope Benedict XVI</a></strong></span></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://slideshow.nbcnews.com/id/47063826/displaymode/1247/?wbSlideShowId=47063826&wbSection=news" target="_blank"><img src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Slideshows/_production/ss-120416-pope-benedict-birthday/ss-120416-pope-benedict-birthday-tease2.photoblog600.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI in 2005. Look back at his life from childhood through his papacy.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><a href="http://slideshow.nbcnews.com/id/47063826/displaymode/1247/?wbSlideShowId=47063826&wbSection=news" target="_blank">Launch slideshow</a></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Related:</strong></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><a href="http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/11/16925459-heavy-heart-but-complete-understanding-popes-resignation-stuns-church-leadership" target="_blank">'Heavy heart but complete understanding': Pope's resignation stuns leadership</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><a href="http://todaynews.today.com/_news/2013/02/11/16925256-archbishop-dolan-im-startled-anxious-at-popes-resignation?lite" target="_blank">Archbishop Dolan of New York: I'm startled, anxious at pope's resignation</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><a href="http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/11/16924416-pope-benedict-xvi-a-timeline" target="_blank"><strong>From prisoner of war to pontiff: A timeline of Benedict XVI's life</strong></a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><a href="http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/11/16926292-us-will-have-unprecedented-voice-in-electing-new-pope?lite" target="_blank">US will have unprecedented voice in electing new pope</a></strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
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