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Pope Benedict XVI resigns
« on: February 12, 2013, 09:50:15 AM »
Pope resigns, saying no longer has strength to fulfill ministry


ROME | Mon Feb 11, 2013 6:28am EST

(Reuters) - Pope Benedict said on Monday he will resign on Feb 28 because he no longer has the strength to fulfill the duties of his office, becoming the first pontiff since the Middle Ages to take such a step.

The 85-year-old pope said he had noticed that his strength had deteriorated over recent months "to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me".

"For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter," he said according to a statement from the Vatican.

A Vatican spokesman said the pontiff would step down from 1900 GMT on February 28, leaving the office vacant until a successor is chosen. (Reporting by Steve Scherer; editing by Janet McBride)

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« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2013, 09:51:25 AM »
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« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2013, 09:52:48 AM »
Pope resignation announcement text


"I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. 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. I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today's world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the bark of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both 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. For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is.

"Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects. And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff. With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer."

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Re: Pope Benedict XVI resigns
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2013, 09:59:54 AM »
Pope Benedict XVI announces resignation – as it happened
Paul Owen and Tom McCarthy
guardian.co.uk, Monday 11 February 2013 17.07 GMT


Here is a summary of today’s key events:

• Pope Benedict XVI has resigned, saying that at his age he cannot carry out all his tasks adequately and is losing strength in body and mind. His brother Georg suggested he was finding it difficult to walk and had been advised to stop making transatlantic journeys.

• The pope will step down on 28 February. A papal conclave will follow to elect his successor, who will be in place by the end of March, and perhaps in time for holy week on 24 March.

• Ghana’s Cardinal Peter Turkson, Nigeria’s Cardinal Francis Arinze, Canada’s Cardinal Marc Ouellet, and Italy’s Angelo Scola emerged as some of the leading candidates to succeed Benedict.  One of the next pope's first trips abroad is likely to be to Rio de Janeiro for World Youth Day on 1 July.

• Benedict says he wishes to continue to serve the Catholic church "through a life dedicated to prayer". He will revert to his former title of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger upon his resignation, the Catholic church in England said. There was “absolute silence” this morning when the pope told cardinals the news, according to Mexican prelate Monsignor Oscar Sanchez, who witnessed his resignation.

• The pope made his decision over the last few months, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said, and it took all his closest aides by surprise. He will honour his commitments until he steps down. Lombardi said this was Benedict’s own personal decision. Upon resigning, he will go to the papal summer residence near Rome, and then will move to a cloistered residence in the Vatican, which may make life difficult for his successor.

• The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, the head of the Anglican church, said he had learned of the pope's resignation with a "heavy heart but complete understanding".

• The last pope to resign was Gregory XII, in 1415.

• Child abuse victims in Ireland and the US criticised Benedict for not having done more to deal with the scandals of paedophile priests in the Catholic church.

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Re: Pope Benedict XVI resigns
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2013, 10:25:14 AM »
Bookmakers Paddy Power have drawn up a list of contenders to replace Benedict. According to them the favourite is Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana (9/4), with Cardinal Marc Ouellet next at 5/2 and Francis Arinze at 7/2. Here is their full list:

9/4 Cardinal Peter Turkson

5/2 Cardinal Marc Ouellet

7/2 Cardinal Francis Arinze

7/1 Archbishop Angelo Scola

10/1 Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga

12/1 Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone

14/1 Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco

16/1 Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio

20/1 Cardinal Leonardo Sandri

25/1 Cardinal Raymond Burke

25/1 Cardinal Cladio Hummes

25/1 Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi

25/1 Cardinal Christoph von Schonborn

33/1 Cardinal Wilfrid Napier

33/1 Cardinal William Levada

33/1 Cardinal Camillo Ruini

33/1 Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera

33/1 Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa

33/1 Cardinal Renato Martino

33/1 Cardinal Albert Malcolm Ranjith

33/1 Archbishop Piero Marini

33/1 Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera

33/1 Cardinal Keith O’Brien -- http://www.guardian.co.uk/

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Re: Pope Benedict XVI resigns
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2013, 10:58:01 AM »
Black Pope: Cardinal Peter Turkson Could Make History and Become the First
Michael McCutcheon in World, Afghanistan 13 hours ago





Cardinal Peter Turkson is one of the names being floated as a possible successor to Pope Benedict XVI as the next head of the Catholic Church. He would be the first black Pope in the history of the Church and is Ghanaian-born.

It would be a historic moment. The Church is continuing to grow quickly in Africa and choosing a non-European would speak volumes about the Church's plans for growth and be a nod to its emerging members.

Turkson was named as a possible successor to the previous Pope, John Paul, but passed over for Benedict. The Pope is chosen by fellow Cardinals in a process called Conclave that is closed to outsiders.

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« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2013, 10:59:30 AM »
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Re: Pope Benedict XVI resigns
« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2013, 11:01:18 AM »
WHAT IS THIS?  is this a joke, hubag? :(

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« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2013, 11:02:57 AM »
goodness gracious!  it's all over the internet news.  this takes time to digest...

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« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2013, 11:06:45 AM »
I watched it Live in CNN last night hangtud nakatulog ko... He resigned due to old age pero some people think more than that.. some even think nga dili niya kaya atubangon ang sex abuse issues.. mao na'y haka haka sa mga tao.. :o

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« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2013, 11:14:19 AM »
WHAT IS THIS?  is this a joke, hubag? :(

Wish it were...

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« Reply #11 on: February 12, 2013, 11:16:01 AM »
my bad.  kining di ta tigtan-aw ug tv, maiwit gyod sa mga hitabo.  serves me right for wanting to shut the world out sometimes...

let those who think ill of him enjoy themselves.  nauso pod karon sa kalibotan ning mga accusations against the clergy kay, you know, kwarta na pod.  we all deserve our day in court, including priests, it goes without saying.  dili sayon-sayonon pag-conclude nga way gibuhat ang santo papa.  the church simply operates without being defensive, sans fanfare.

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« Reply #12 on: February 12, 2013, 11:16:39 AM »
the church has more than enough brains, top ones in fact, to investigate malpractices without publicizing.  it's the media that fans the intrigues.  kanyahay ra, sa u.s. kuno, priests have been warned not to talk to children alone aron dili himoan ug estorya.  sa u.s. pa nga bisag anino ikiha, matod pa ni raqz many posts ago. 

lisod kaayog lunggoan nato ang ginikanan kay naay mga anak nitulibagbag. 

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« Reply #13 on: February 12, 2013, 11:17:39 AM »
cute lagi imong avatar, loll!  aguuyyy, unsaon na lang...

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« Reply #14 on: February 12, 2013, 11:18:45 AM »
I watched it Live in CNN last night hangtud nakatulog ko... He resigned due to old age pero some people think more than that.. some even think nga dili niya kaya atubangon ang sex abuse issues.. mao na'y haka haka sa mga tao.. :o

The Guardian's Stephen Bates analyzes the "sense of drift and disappointment" attached to Benedict's papacy:

    "I'd say it has been disastrous," said Michael Walsh, the British historian of the papacy, on Monday night.

    The problems facing the church remain: the child abuse scandal has not been resolved, nor has the church's loss of authority and self-confidence been reversed. In the west, and Europe was clearly the focus of Benedict's interest, the decline in church attendances and the lack of vocations to staff the future priesthood, the sheer disintegration in its status and esteem, have been neither confronted nor resolved. Catherine Pepinster, editor of the Catholic weekly the Tablet, said: "It has been a very troubled time. We have not got a Catholic church at ease with itself."

    Indeed, the Vatican has seemed to be pressing hard in the opposite direction: into a cul-de-sac of conservative authoritarianism which neither inspires nor revives the mass of cradle Catholics, who are still deserting the church even in heartlands such as Spain and Ireland. Fifty years ago, governments in Catholic countries would tremble at the Vatican's displeasure; now they just wag their fingers back and press on with their plans for gay marriages or easier abortion. There is no comeback when the church has squandered its moral authority across the world over child abuse.

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« Reply #15 on: February 12, 2013, 11:19:28 AM »
cute lagi imong avatar, loll!  aguuyyy, unsaon na lang...

nag google search ko ug mga wallpaper, nakita nako ni.. it reminds me of Ms da binsi's Louie..;D

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« Reply #16 on: February 12, 2013, 11:21:29 AM »
limpyo kaayog nawong, bugol pa gyod.  hala, tingalig si louie ni sa?  oh, i miss ms da binsi baya.  haraw di to mahiluna ug mobalik na, hehe.

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« Reply #17 on: February 12, 2013, 11:21:42 AM »
The Guardian's Stephen Bates analyzes the "sense of drift and disappointment" attached to Benedict's papacy:

    "I'd say it has been disastrous," said Michael Walsh, the British historian of the papacy, on Monday night.

    The problems facing the church remain: the child abuse scandal has not been resolved, nor has the church's loss of authority and self-confidence been reversed. In the west, and Europe was clearly the focus of Benedict's interest, the decline in church attendances and the lack of vocations to staff the future priesthood, the sheer disintegration in its status and esteem, have been neither confronted nor resolved. Catherine Pepinster, editor of the Catholic weekly the Tablet, said: "It has been a very troubled time. We have not got a Catholic church at ease with itself."

    Indeed, the Vatican has seemed to be pressing hard in the opposite direction: into a cul-de-sac of conservative authoritarianism which neither inspires nor revives the mass of cradle Catholics, who are still deserting the church even in heartlands such as Spain and Ireland. Fifty years ago, governments in Catholic countries would tremble at the Vatican's displeasure; now they just wag their fingers back and press on with their plans for gay marriages or easier abortion. There is no comeback when the church has squandered its moral authority across the world over child abuse.

ooppss.. my bad hhehehe child abuse..

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« Reply #18 on: February 12, 2013, 11:24:13 AM »
SALVE REGINA, MADRE DI MISERICORDIA.
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« Reply #19 on: February 12, 2013, 11:29:17 AM »
There is no comeback when the church has squandered its moral authority across the world over child abuse.

the church has stood on rock for millennia, it has seen good times and bad throughout the ages.  it will prevail as man's conscience will prevail. 

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« Reply #20 on: February 12, 2013, 11:32:40 AM »
The Guardian's Stephen Bates analyzes the "sense of drift and disappointment" attached to Benedict's papacy:

    "I'd say it has been disastrous," said Michael Walsh, the British historian of the papacy, on Monday night.

i'd say it's too soon to call, analyst or not, historian or not.  history's verdict always takes time.  why is this guy making a judgment now?

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« Reply #21 on: February 12, 2013, 11:33:55 AM »
limpyo kaayog nawong, bugol pa gyod.  hala, tingalig si louie ni sa?  oh, i miss ms da binsi baya.  haraw di to mahiluna ug mobalik na, hehe.

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« Reply #22 on: February 12, 2013, 11:39:08 AM »
wa koy makit-an, loll.  why oh why ang kabaw naglaway...

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« Reply #23 on: February 12, 2013, 11:46:24 AM »
wa koy makit-an, loll.  why oh why ang kabaw naglaway...

basin nidagan hehehe...kani..



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« Reply #24 on: February 12, 2013, 02:07:27 PM »
the church has stood on rock for millennia, it has seen good times and bad throughout the ages.  it will prevail as man's conscience will prevail. 

She survived the protestant heresies in recent centuries, centuries prior to that, She survived many other heresies that would have undermined the Church. She is impregnable, as the Bride of Christ, not even the very gates of Hell can touch Her. Heresies come and go, but the Church shall Last from everlasting to everlasting. Christ declares it so.

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« Reply #25 on: February 12, 2013, 02:10:51 PM »
His Holiness acted according to his conscience and at the behest of the Holy Spirit. May the Lord God bless him always all the days of his life. May all the saints of heaven give him peace in his golden years. The Church was so lucky to have him head the Petrine ministry these past 8 years.

He restored the old Roman Rite Mass, he restored the orthodoxy , the beauty of Roman Catholicism. The Catholicism that should be adored and venerated....

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« Reply #26 on: February 12, 2013, 02:15:13 PM »
I watched it Live in CNN last night hangtud nakatulog ko... He resigned due to old age pero some people think more than that.. some even think nga dili niya kaya atubangon ang sex abuse issues.. mao na'y haka haka sa mga tao.. :o

Jenneth,

There are over 1.2 billion Roman Catholics in the world. There are millions of priests that make up the army of Christ. The minority of priests that abuse their position is insignificant to the overwhelming majority of priests that serve and devote their lives piously to the ministry of the Gospel.

It is unfortunate that the media has become reprobate and persecutes the Church. What can we expect from a liberal institution (media) that promotes murder, homosexuality, and immoral behavior. In the end, the Church will remain victorious amongst Her enemies. History has vindicated this.

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Re: Pope Benedict XVI resigns
« Reply #27 on: February 12, 2013, 03:08:44 PM »
for our consideration:

The only other pope to resign because he felt unable to fulfill his duties was Celestine V in 1296, a hermit who stepped down after just a few months in office, saying he yearned for a simpler life and was not physically capable for the office.

But the last pope to resign was Pope Gregory XII in 1415, according to the British daily The Guardian.

Gregory stood down to end the “Western Schism,” which threatened to shatter Roman Catholicism. Two rival claimants had declared themselves pope in Avignon and Pisa and, with the help of the wily Italian politician Malatesta, Gregory’s resignation helped unite the church at the Council of Constance in 1415.

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Re: Pope Benedict XVI resigns
« Reply #28 on: February 12, 2013, 03:10:25 PM »
Malacañang expressed regret last night over the news of thepope’s resignation.“Not only the Catholic world, but all peoples and nations of goodwill are filled with great regret as news comes of Pope Benedict XVI announced his intention to relinquish the ‘Petrine Ministry on Feb. 28,” a statement released by the Office of the President said.

“We join the Catholic world and all whose lives the pope has touched, in prayer and sympathy. May he find respite from his physical challenges, and peace and contentment in the seclusion of retirement,” it said.

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Re: Pope Benedict XVI resigns
« Reply #29 on: February 14, 2013, 06:22:59 PM »
Why Pope Resigned
Cardinal Tagle Urges Faithful To Pray For Pontiff



Manila Bulletin February 13, 2013, 7:32pm

VATICAN CITY (New York Times) – Just days after Pope Benedict XVI returned from a 2010 trip to Britain where he met the queen and mended fences with the Anglicans, prosecutors in Rome impounded $30 million from the Vatican Bank in an investigation linked to money laundering.

In May, soon after the Pope made an address on the priesthood, chastising those who sought to stretch the church’s rules and calling for “radical obedience,” Vatican gendarmes arrested Benedict’s butler on charges of theft after a tell-all book appeared, based on stolen confidential documents detailing profound mismanagement and corruption inside the Vatican.

Benedict had hoped that his papacy would rekindle the Catholic faith in Europe and compel Catholics to forge bonds between faith and reason, as he so loved to do.

But after a seemingly endless series of scandals, the 85-year-old who so ably enforced doctrine for his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, seemingly came to understand that only a new pope, one with far greater energies than he, could lead a global church and clean house inside the hierarchy at its helm. In the end, Vatican experts said, he decided he could best serve the church by resigning, a momentous decision with far-reaching implications that are still not fully understood.

“It wasn’t one thing, but a whole combination of them” that caused him to resign, said Paolo Rodari, a Vatican expert at the Italian daily newspaper Il Foglio. Clerical sex abuse scandals battered the papacy relentlessly, erupting in the United States, Ireland and across Europe, all the way to Australia.

But the most recent, the scandal involving the butler, “was a constant drumbeat on the pope,” he said, hitting close to home – literally where the pope lived. In the end, Mr. Rodari said, the message was, “I can’t change things, so I will erase everything.”

While the pope clearly has been losing strength in recent years, some Vatican experts saw Benedict’s decision less as a sign of frailty than one of strength that sent a clear message – and a challenge – to the Vatican prelates whose misdeeds he had struggled to rein in: No one is irreplaceable, not even the pope.

Even the Vatican acknowledged this. “The pope is someone of great realism,” the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said on Tuesday. “And he knows very well what the problems and the difficulties are.”

Father Lombardi added: “I think this decision sends many messages to all of us, of humility, courage, of wisdom in evaluating one’s situation before God.” He said the resignation could “open the door for a potential wave of resignations” – including from within the administrative body known as the Curia, Massimo Franco, a political columnist at the Corriere della Sera daily newspaper and an expert in relations between Italy and the Vatican, wrote on Tuesday.

Pope’s Pacemaker

A weak manager further weakened by age – the Vatican said for the first time on Tuesday that the pope had a pacemaker – Benedict apparently no longer felt equal to the task of governing an institution that had lacked a strong leader for over a decade, ever since John Paul II began a slow descent into Parkinson’s disease.

Tagle: Pray For Pontiff

With these developments, Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle urged the Filipino faithful “to pray for the Holy Father as he devotes the coming years at the service of the Church through a life of prayer.”

“His paramount desire is to promote the greater good of the Church. We know that the Papal ministry is not an easy task. So we thank Pope Benedict XVI, who was elected Pope at the rather advanced age of 78, for selflessly guiding the Church these past eight years with his teaching, simplicity and gentleness,” the 55-year-old Manila Archbishop said.

Scandal-Marred Trip

It was another scandal-marred trip, this one to Mexico and Cuba in March, that seems to have finally persuaded Benedict to consider the idea of stepping aside, Vatican officials said.

The visit to Mexico was haunted by the specter of the Rev. Marcial Maciel Degollado, the Mexican founder of the Legionaries of Christ, a powerful and deeply conservative religious order with close ties to John Paul’s papacy. Before he died in 2008, Father Maciel was found to have raped seminarians, fathered several children and engaged in drug abuse.

Throughout the visit, victims’ groups and other advocates organized news conferences and other events to call attention to what they saw as the church’s dismal record on sexual abuse, even though Benedict, as the Vatican’s chief doctrinal officer, had reopened an investigation into Father Maciel that ultimately disclosed his double life. But he failed to address the issue in Mexico, upsetting victims’ groups there and around the world. When he became pope, Benedict knew of what he spoke, but he struggled to make the mighty wheels of a 1,000-year-old bureaucracy turn smoothly.

Benedict’s first missteps were seen as problems of communications. When in 2006 he quoted a Byzantine emperor saying Islam had brought things “evil and inhuman,” remarks that helped provoke riots in which several people died, the Vatican said his words had been misinterpreted. Clearly pained, he visited Turkey as a way to make amends.

In 2009, when Benedict lifted the excommunication of four schismatic bishops, one of whom had denied the scope of the Holocaust, the Vatican – and the pope – said the gesture was aimed at healing a rift in the church, not at offending. Officials also admitted they had failed to use the Internet to research the bishop’s views.

But later that same year, when the Vatican shocked many, including the archbishop of Canterbury, by announcing a new structure to welcome traditionalist Anglicans back into Catholicism, it became clear that the crisis of communications might in fact be a crisis of governance.

The Vatican official then in charge of the church’s relations with Anglicans, Cardinal Walter Kasper, said he had not been informed of the new structure, which had been announced in an impromptu news conference by a different Vatican office when he was out of town.

As a theologian intent on making overtures to the more traditionalist elements of the church, and lacking John Paul’s charisma, Benedict was bound to ruffle some feathers. But the fatal flaw of his papacy, Vatican experts say, and a leading cause of the scandals and missteps, is that he did not choose the right deputies to make the institution run well.

“The daily running of the shop is in such disarray because he doesn’t consult with anybody,” said Robert Mickens, a Vatican expert for The Tablet, a London-based Catholic weekly.

“The major problem of this pontificate is his choice of Bertone as secretary of state, and his insistence in keeping him there,” he added, referring to Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone. “This has angered and alienated people. He put a non-diplomat in the office that deals mostly with people who were trained to be diplomats, and he’s not very diplomatic.”

Vatican experts speculate that the scandal over the butler leaking confidential information was part of a complex power battle within the Vatican by factions that wanted to undermine Cardinal Bertone, a canon lawyer and a former archbishop of Genoa.

In January 2012, letters emerged in the Italian news media and later a book, “Your Holiness,” in which a high-ranking Vatican official said he had discovered corruption and mismanagement in the awarding of construction contracts and said that Cardinal Bertone had been influenced by Italian political circles.

In a letter, the official, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, then the second-ranking official of the part of the Curia that administers Vatican City, implored both Benedict and Cardinal Bertone to allow him to stay in a job overseeing the Holy See’s financial affairs. Instead, Benedict transferred Archbishop Viganò to become the papal nuncio, a diplomatic post, in Washington.

And he stood by Cardinal Bertone even after the pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, was arrested in May 2012 on charges he took confidential documents that wound up in the book. In October, Mr. Gabriele was sentenced to 18 months of house arrest in the Vatican, but over the Christmas holidays, Benedict pardoned him.

Mr. Franco wrote in Corriere della Sera that Benedict was believed to be distraught by a secret report compiled by the three cardinals that the pope had appointed to investigate the leaks scandal.

As the scandals piled up, it was clear that the pope was increasingly tired, his voice strained, his face drained. But although the resignation was related to a series of painful personal defeats, Benedict’s act was expected to resonate through history.

“It’s revolutionary,” said Eamon Duffy, a professor of the history of Christianity at Cambridge. “He’s sweeping away the mystical in favor of the utilitarian: That being a pope is a job, and the pope must be in the condition to do the job.” (With a report from Christina I. Hermoso)

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Re: Pope Benedict XVI resigns
« Reply #30 on: March 01, 2013, 06:16:50 PM »
wow.  what a credible and balanced analysis.  thanks for the post, expat.

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Re: Pope Benedict XVI resigns
« Reply #31 on: March 07, 2013, 09:26:51 AM »
Sex abuse victims list ‘dirty dozen’ papal candidates


Agence France-Presse
7:57 am | Thursday, March 7th, 2013
 

CHICAGO—Clergy sex abuse victims released a “dirty dozen” list of potential papal candidates Wednesday and urged the Catholic Church to “get serious” about protecting children, helping victims and exposing corruption.

“We want to urge Catholic prelates to stop pretending that the worst is over regarding the clergy sex abuse and cover up crisis,” said David Clohessy, director of the US-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP.

“Tragically, the worst is almost certainly ahead.”

The organization cited a dozen cardinals from the United States, Mexico, Honduras, Italy, Australia, Czech Republic, Canada, Argentina and Ghana accused of protecting pedophile priests and making offensive public statements.

They are all considered to be contenders to succeed Pope Benedict XVI, who was criticized for his handling of the sex abuse scandals that have rocked the church in the United States and Europe.

SNAP also opposes electing any member of the Roman Curia, the administrative branch of the Holy See.

“We feel no current Vatican ‘insider’ has the will to truly ‘clean house’ in the Vatican and elsewhere,’” Clohessy said in a statement.

“Promoting a Curia member would discourage victims, witnesses, whistleblowers and advocates from reporting wrongdoing.”

The blacklist included: Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana; Cardinal Tarsicio Bertone of Italy; Cardinal Dominik Duka of Czech Republic; Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico; Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras; Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York; Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington; Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston; Cardinal Angelo Scola of Italy; Cardinal Leonardo Sandri of Argentina; Cardinal George Pell of Australia; and Cardinal Marc Ouellet of Quebec, Canada.

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Re: Pope Benedict XVI resigns
« Reply #32 on: March 13, 2013, 11:15:17 AM »
Woman abused by Pinoy priests pins hope on new Pope


By Steve Angeles ABS-CBN North America Bureau
Posted at 03/13/2013 10:35 AM | Updated as of 03/13/2013 10:35 AM

CARSON, California - Growing up, Rita Milla described herself as a loner, with plans to enter the convent and become a nun. But as a 16-year-old parishioner at Saint Philomena Church in Carson, California, she was the center of a clergy sex abuse scandal, eventually dubbed "Snow White and the Seven Priests" in the 1980's.

Seven Filipino priests, led by Father Santiago Tamayo, sexually abused her. She became pregnant and bore the child of one of the priests, Father Valentine Tugade.

Milla went through years of therapy, became a medical assistant, and won a half million dollar settlement in 2007.

She raised her daughter Jackie, which DNA tests confirmed was fathered by Tugade.

She has since married, and now has a son as well as three grandchildren, but painful memories resurfaced when the Los Angeles Archdiocese released documents regarding church abuse.

"I had always thought I had been doing better than I actually was when the documents came. I read them and it kind of set me back and I became depressed again. It brought up a bunch of bad memories," she said.

Documents show letters from church officials, including former Los Angeles archbishop Cardinal Roger Mahony and her abusers, discussing ways to cover up the scandal. At one point, she was encouraged to get an abortion.

She gave birth in the Philippines (Milla's ethnicity is uncertain, contrary to the headline on Balitang America that identified her as Filipino.—ed).

She returned to the US and filed her lawsuit against Tamayo and the other priests.

"It was in the Philippines that I broke free from Father Tamayo and the priests. It was there that I felt I was going to die and I almost did die there. I had a lot of time to think far away from him and realize that nobody else should go through this. That gave me the anger or the strength to come back and denounce them," recalled Milla.

Milla is no longer Catholic, but continues to monitor the Catholic church as a member of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP). With the papal conclave scheduled to begin on Tuesday, she's hoping to see a new pope that can address past and present clergy abuse issues, while preventing future incidents from occurring.

"I'm hoping that the new pope will have the courage to clean house, to actually go after the bishops that have hidden all these priests," she said.

"But if (the next pope) is being voted in by Mahony and all these other cardinals that have problems, their own problems, more than likely it’ll be more of the same," she explained.

Despite being stripped of his public duties, Mahony remains a cardinal in good standing and part of the conclave. He went to Rome despite thousands of petitions urging the Vatican to exclude him from the conclave.

Milla had joined members of SNAP in Rome to protest Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

While she fights for others, she has moved on from her own past. Two of the abusers, Father Angel Cruces and Tamayo both died, with Tamayo publicly apologizing to Milla before his death.

The whereabouts of the other priests, including Tugade, remain unknown.


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