From the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21411304
Pope Benedict XVI, after being advised by his physician he should undertake no more travelling, has announced he will resign from his post before Easter.
While resignations of popes are not heard of, in the modern age the office has only been filled after a pope dies.
The full details are at the BBC link above. - James.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21411304
Pope Benedict XVI, after being advised by his physician he should undertake no more travelling, has announced he will resign from his post before Easter.
While resignations of popes are not heard of, in the modern age the office has only been filled after a pope dies.
The full details are at the BBC link above. - James.
"Be ye not lost amongst Precept of Order." - Book of Uterus, 1:5, "Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her."