POPE BENEDICT XVI TO RESIGN

I don't know about you, but this story smells like a wet monkey... there is much more than meets the eye....

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI announced Monday that he would resign on Feb. 28 because he was simply too infirm to carry on — the first pontiff to do so in nearly 600 years. The decision sets the stage for a conclave to elect a new pope before the end of March.

The 85-year-old pope announced his decision in Latin during a meeting of Vatican cardinals on Monday morning.

He emphasized that carrying out the duties of being pope — the leader of more than a billion Roman Catholics worldwide — requires "both strength of mind and body."

"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," he told the cardinals. "I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only by 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 barque of St. Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary — strengths 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."

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BTW~ the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI fits the prophecy of St. Malachi (though controversial, his vision and prediction in 1139 of all the Popes to rule the Catholic church until the end of the world). This resignation of the Pope sets the stage for ~
"Peter the Roman," the architect of the final days of the church on Earth.

Papal EmblemThe Prophecy of the Popes, attributed to Saint Malachy , is a list of 112 short phrases in Latin . They purport to describe each of the Roman Catholic popes (along with a few anti-popes ), beginning with Pope Celestine II (elected in 1143) and concluding with the successor of current pope Benedict XVI , a pope described in the prophecy as "Peter the Roman", whose pontificate will end in the destruction of the city of Rome .
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