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February 12, 2013 by
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Pope Benedict has announced he will retire on Feb. 28, 2013.
When a CEO of a major multinational quits and gives just two weeks’ notice, everybody pricks up their ears. Those who can hear through the deafening and tasteless “Ding dong the witch is dead,” remix are wondering why the sudden papal exit? Did the butler do it? Was it the Nuns on the Bus? Was it something unseemly on his Twitter account? Was it the continuing revelations that something is rotten in the city of Los Angeles besides the Lakers? Was it the Grammys?
The Pope said he’s “justus plumbius tuckered outum”. Hillary is tired too, but I hope she’ll rest up and be back. My concern is that there are plenty of young Tea Party cardinal types all lined up and eager to continue the anti-woman, anti-gay ultra-orthodox drive toward purity that this retiring pope, always God’s Rottweiler, has sic’d on the Catholic Church. The young ones think the Pope wasn’t strict enough. They hate the sinner and the sin.
So let me say, if nominated I will not run. Lord knows I would give anything to hear NPR’s smoky-voiced correspondent from Rome, Sylvia Polgoli speak my name until the cardinals come home, but I am not tempted. Pride is still a major sin in my Pre-Vatican II playbook. And you know Donald Trump is considering throwing his hair in the ring.
On to the next old/gay white man with a broomstick up his ass telling people how to live their lives.
In addition to his anti-gay, women hating ways, this pope had the responsibility to review every child sex abuse case involving the church prior to becoming pontiff. It is my hope that he is exhausted from all of the evil he has witnessed, participated in and covered up.
Oh, hell! You know he enjoyed reviewing those cases. That’s why he’s leaving. His guilt made him sick(er).
Thanks for this. I knew I could count on you to find our way through the white smoke. This is where I come for my papal updates–after Sylvia Pogioli, of course.
I hear that Benedict changed church law earlier this week so
the cardinals won’t have to deal with that pesky 15-day wait-
ing period before they start the conclave to select the next
Pope. How convenient.
So much for all that “we can’t change anything because this
is the way it’s been for 2000 years” talk. Oy.
p.s. I also love how the Vatican likes to ignore the fact that women led the first Catholic masses at home in their
kitchens.