Pope Benedict XVI Will Resign

[pdogg]

Breaking News From the New York Times

 

 

Pope Benedict XVI Will Resign, Vatican Spokesman Says

 

Pope Benedict XVI, the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger who took office in 2005 following the death of his predecessor, said on Monday that he will retire on Feb. 28, the first pope to do so in six centuries.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/world/europe/pope-benedict-xvi-says-he-will-retire.html?emc=na&_r=0

[SiamSam]

[4:17]

... soon to be seen wearing sandals with dark socks, a loud Hawaiian shirt and propositioning a glamazon on Beach Road at 3 a.m. ...

[bumblebee]

... soon to be seen wearing sandals with dark socks, a loud Hawaiian shirt and propositioning a glamazon on Beach Road at 3 a.m. ...

Spotted him already this afternoon near Mike's Mall.

[JaiDee]

Yeah, I heard the scumbag who covered up sex with boys for years is retiring.

 

 Can we hope that his vacation retreat will be a prison cell?

[JaiDee]

The first pope to abdicate in 600 years.....what a total piece of shit that guy is, if there was a hell the assholes in their red suits and pitchforks would be waiting to fuck this guy in the ass for eternity.

 

  Good article from Christopher Hitchens [RIP] about this fuckhead;

 

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2010/03/the_great_catholic_coverup.html

 

''In 1979, an 11-year-old German boy identified as Wilfried F. was taken
on a vacation trip to the mountains by a priest. After that, he was
administered alcohol, locked in his bedroom, stripped naked, and forced
to suck the penis of his confessor.  The offending cleric was
transferred from Essen to Munich for "therapy" by a decision of
then-Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger,''

[ciobha]

I agree with Jaidee on this one - the whole "health reasons" story sounds a bit too convenient. I reckon in a few months to a year, a lot of shit will come out vindicating him, and it will be less of a blow if he is no longer the Pope when that happens. The kiddy fiddling scandal wasn't confined to a few parish priests in the backend of nowhere, it goes all the way to the top.

[strocube]

It's too bad these sick fucks will not get what's coming to them.

The Nazi Pope will resign. There will be some noises about "a few bad apples," and things will go back to business as usual.

As bad as these instances of abuse have been in the "developed world," can you imagine the horrors going on in places like Latin America and the Philipines, where the Catholic church is still looked at with awe and reverence by the poor and iliterate masses in those countries? Talk about "The horror, the horror."

[ciobha]

Sorry old chap, that is exactly what I meant, never could tell my vindicators from my indicators. Too much time spent in LB bars I reckon does that to a fellow.

[KendoUK]

As much as I could easily believe a choirboy with a bleeding ass knows the real reason for him stepping down the health thing is entirely believable, this Pope is stepping down at the age of 84, Pope JP II popped his clogs aged 85 and pretty much a vegetable by the time he was done.

[TEXASMAC]

I agree partly but I am sad to say the cover up was way before him. I have an uncle who was a Catholic priest. He came to stay with us for about 5 months and my mother found some gay porn cleaning his room. She questioned me for over 2 hours to see if her brother ever did anything. I said "NO" and it was the truth. She still told him to move out of our house. I look back now and this makes me very proud of my mom.

[SiamSam]

Here are my LBR Cardinal nominations for the next Pope:

 

Pacman

Jai Dee

PigDogg

&

of course

Mr. KenW

 

Please feel free to nominate others as you see fit. 

 

We should convene the LBR conclave ASAP and begin the voting process accordingly. I suggest the conclave meet at PBG during the day and reconvene at Stringfellows from dusk to dawn. Once we arrive at a majority we will have our choice of ladyboy blow the white smoke out of her ass to alert the masses of our collective decision and celebrate our new spitual guidance. 

 

Bumblebee will document the proceedings for posterity. 

 

What say thou?

[pacman]

More whacky humour from my favourite Canadian comedian, Siam Sam....     

 

Despite being ineligible for the role of Pope on every level, if I can speak hypothetically, the first thing I would do is close the Catholic Church down. It's a morally bankrupt institution who have taken millions along with them on the wild fantasy that the Pope is God's man here on earth & his preachings are the word of God.

 

I believe the story of the Pope's resignation is directly linked to the previous thread on the Catholic Church & the revelations that were revealed in that (and many other) documentary. As I posted to that thread, there is a Royal Commission starting here in Australia to examine the sex abuse of minors. It is expected to last at least 10 years, cost something like a billion dollars & by the end of it, there will only be those Catholics left who stubbornly refuse to believe the evidence. 

 

This Commission will go all the way to the Vatican & the Pope is conveniently bailing out before he faces impossible questions. There are priests taking their lives already rather than have to face their day of enquiry. This Commission is going to throw up so much horror that other countries will start demanding their own enquiry. I am delighted if this proves to be the start of the end of one of the most vile organisations on earth. 

 

Hallelujah. 

[JaiDee]

Here are my LBR Cardinal nominations for the next Pope:

 

Pacman

Jai Dee

 

 

   Appreciate the nomination, Sam.....but honestly, I am way too honest and trustworthy to work for that organization, they only hire scumbags who have sex with little children and then promote bosses who cover it all up and look the other way.   I have done some pretty dodgy things in my life,  but nothing at that level;  these catholic asswipes take the words ''sexual deviancy'' to a whole new level.

 

      Fingers crossed the next guy to sit on that tacky little throne in his dresses is a black guy; man, nothing would be better than to watch the heads of southern christians in America explode at the thought of having a black president AND a black pope!  Oh, the fun we would have.....

[pdogg]

An Op-Ed piece from the Times:

 

February 11, 2013

 

Farewell to an Uninspiring Pope

 

By JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY

 

POPE BENEDICT XVI quit. Good. He was utterly bereft of charm, tone-deaf and a protector of priests who abused children. He’d been a member of the Hitler Youth. In addition to this woeful résumé, he had no use for women.

 

The Roman Catholic Church, which in so many ways has been a great boon to the City of New York, has been choked and bludgeoned into insignificance by a small group of men based in Italy.

 

Priests cannot marry. Why? I will tell you why. Priests cannot marry because they would have to marry women. Women cannot be priests.

 

Why? Women cannot become priests because of a bunch of old men. These old men justify their beliefs with a brace of ridiculous arguments that Jesus would have overturned in a minute. “Do unto others as you would have them do to you.” What about that is hard to understand? If you can become a priest, I can become a priest. Period. Equality.

 

Benedict has not been idle. He has put in place a lot of other old guys who have no interest in sharing power with anyone outside the club. The last pope we had who showed signs of spiritual vision was John XXIII. That was a long time ago. He had humility and a good heart. These more recent appointments have been disheartening in the extreme.

 

When I was a kid at St. Anthony’s in the Bronx (one of the schools that the archdiocese of New York is now closing), there were boxes for the poor. The people of the East Bronx worked hard and made little. Everybody put money in those boxes. I put money in those boxes. As far as I’m concerned, that money was stolen.

 

I have watched the wealth of the Catholic Church turned into a subsidy for wrongdoing and a prop for the continuing campaign against women’s rights and homosexuality. Neighborhood churches, built with the hard-earned money of working-class people, are being sold off. The sacrifices that were made to build these churches were significant and local. The decision to close them has been made antiseptically, by remote control. The men who make these decisions are at a remove, very much involved in protecting their power and comfort.

 

I have little reason to hope that the Church of Rome will suddenly realize that without women, the Catholic Church is doomed, and should be doomed. I think of those good nuns who educated me, of their lifelong devotion and sacrifice. They have been treated like cattle by a crowd of domineering fools. In Benedict, the Catholic Church got the pope it deserved. I can only hope, for the sake of my parents, who loved the church so much, that a miracle of divine grace alters the writing on the wall. If not, the Catholic Church will suffer the fate it deserves.

 

John Patrick Shanley is the author of “Doubt” and other plays.

 

[Jimslim]

Its pretty much all been said but this guy was a nasty bit of work who held some of the most bigoted and extreme views on pretty much every subject ....... God is love ..eh ? 

 

With all these people protection of the church and its institutions is far more important than the rights of any abused individual .

 

Good riddance but I doubt the next one will be any better the institution is corrupt from the top down .

[JaiDee]

Very appropriate for this thread.....and even for this forum, see below.....is this awesome song from 35 years ago called Anti-Pope.  The Damned nailed it back then, and it's still oh-so-true now.

 

 

 

 

So many people are weak enough
To have to seek answers from pedlars of hope.

 

There's gonna be some fun tonight
Spreading news around the town
That the vicars are transvestites
With a fetish for robes and gowns

 

[Jimslim]

The Damned excellent ! 

 

This comes with a warning do not listen if you are easily offended ..... hardcore punks Crass take on organized religion .

 

http://youtu.be/eYCnL_qVl-E

[JaiDee]

Crass were anarchists also.....2 reasons enough to like them :)

 

One of my favorite Crass songs deals with both, their hatred for government AND religion.

 

http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/crass/bigalittlea.html

[williethepimp]

Here are my LBR Cardinal nominations for the next Pope:

 

Pacman

Jai Dee

PigDogg

&

of course

Mr. KenW

 

Please feel free to nominate others as you see fit. 

 

We should convene the LBR conclave ASAP and begin the voting process accordingly. I suggest the conclave meet at PBG during the day and reconvene at Stringfellows from dusk to dawn. Once we arrive at a majority we will have our choice of ladyboy blow the white smoke out of her ass to alert the masses of our collective decision and celebrate our new spitual guidance. 

 

Bumblebee will document the proceedings for posterity. 

 

What say thou?

IM saddened and dismayed......

 

.not by the Popes abdication of course,but the fact that I wasn't even considered for Siam Sam's short list of possible sucessors.......A good Catholic lad like me,-ex altar boy....hell,I even remember some of the prayers in Latin.......And whats more I solemly swear on a stack of Bibles(do they still count?) NEVER to abuse any children.....I however do intend to fuck as many of those hot little nuns that come anywhere near my Papal robes....I will also insist on them kissing my ring everyday,after my daily blessing......

[SiamSam]

Don't worry Willie. We have other plans for a good boy like yourself. 

[JaiDee]

Every person who reads and posts on this ladyboy message board is 100 times better than this absolute POS

 

WHO THE FUCK SEEKS IMMUNITY UNLESS THEY KNOW THEY ARE GUILTY AS HELL??

 

http://www.stuartwilde.com/2013/02/popeseeks-immunity-protection-from-italian-president/#.UR2SyBbzf5a.facebook

 

 

 

immunity and protection from Italian President Giorgio Napolitano on
February 23 for allegations against the Pope of child sex crimes.

[JaiDee]

One more piece of absolute shit exposed.

 

what a bunch of lying, scumbag hypocrits

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/03/cardinal-keith-obrien-admits-sexual-misconduct

 

 

 

"there have been times that my sexual conduct has fallen below the
standards expected of me as a priest, archbishop and cardinal".

[SiamSam]

"there have been times that my sexual conduct has fallen below the

standards expected of me as a priest, archbishop and cardinal".

 

Me too!!!

[JaiDee]

yeah, me too Sam, but  we don't profess to be above the fray.

 

  These scumbags make me so pissed off, I don't know why I let it bother me so much....I guess 16 years of indoctrination and being told how special and important those guys with the white collar were, and then finding out when you are an adult it was all just a lie and a sham will do that to a person.