***OFFICIAL Why the Pope Quit Internet Meme thread**** Post yours here.

[cleanhippie]

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[randome]

1. Retiring to spend more time with his family.

[MFM008]

39. LOL!

[Duer 157099]

2. I just want to know if he has a 401k?

Do Popes save for retirement?

[cleanhippie]

5. Probably not, as they all die while being Pope.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

11. Most. Not all.

[Mass]

15. All. This is the first one since the 15th century. No retirement at that time.

[kenny blankenship]

35. But back in the Papal Schism era, there was always another Pope to take up the slack

Now we're down to just one Pope and this one is plumb wore out.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

38. "5. Probably not, as they all die while being Pope."

One resigned. Pope Gregory XII.

So they don't all die while being Pope.

[cleanhippie]

17. When was the last one one? Hasn't it been several hundred years?

[arthritisR_US]

33. 1415, ya it's been a few tears ;) n/t

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

37. That's why I wrote Most, not all."

[arthritisR_US]

41. I was just being facetious, sorry. n/t

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

52. No need to apologize. I'm not looking for a fight over a Pope.

[KansDem]

3. He wants to spend more time with his family?

[truebluegreen]

53. DUzy!

[Fresh_Start]

4. If he were pregnant, the Pope wouldn't allow himself to quit

because service the fetus is more important than service to God

[patrice]

19. +1!

[randome]

6. Retiring to replace Bill O'Reilly at Fox. Shh. Don't tell Bill!

[leveymg]

7. Didn't the Pope just recently go on-line? Maybe it was something he saw or posted. ;-)

He could have seen what he's been denying himself all these years. Naughty, naughty.

[randome]

10. You mean he's really a closeted lesbian spanking enthusiast? Who could have known?

[leveymg]

25. You have your fantasies. I'm sure he has his . . . ;-)

Maybe, Antonin "orgies relieve social tensions" Scalia, a good former Alter Boy, can illuminate this subject.

[randome]

8. Retiring to do a photo shoot with Kate Upton.

[burnsei sensei]

9. Maybe he just doesn't want to be the Pontifex Maximus.

The way I see it, the decision's fine.
Let him go.
I think the greater disaster would be a person in a leadership positon compelled to remain there when his desires point somewhere else.
Sometimes, human misery doesn't discriminate.

[cleanhippie]

12. Because he was outed as a Sith Lord.

[Daemonaquila]

42. Better check that cardinal for funky face tattoos!

He probably just wanted to pass on the post to his apprentice.

[grantcart]

13. As litigation has decimated various local dioceses

Regular Catholics have been repreatedly asked to dig deep and help pay for legal costs and damages above their regular giving.

This even as they sell off real estate holdings and still face bankrkuptcy.

With increasing information detailing Ratzinger as the central Vatican official who actually kept all of the records and was actively involved in the cover up just starting to come out, it would be come virtually important to raise money from ordinary Catholics while the head guy in the cover up was still Pope.

[patrice]

14. Banking. Repercussions of re-alignments triggered by our '08 Derivative Crash & LIBOR???

[LongTomH]

32. The scandal over the Vatican bank really isn't new!

Remember the Roberto Calvi affair in 1982? Calvi was found hanged under a bridge in London. There have been allegations ever since that "God's Banker" had ties to drug money and some shadowy secret societies.

[BainsBane]

16. first time in 700 years

When I saw EarlG's post, I first thought it was a joke. It's quite a shock. He obviously didn't think he could handle the job anymore. Maybe someone has dirt on him.

[klook]

18. Will become a superhero

called Popeman.


He may need a new Popemobile and underground lair, though.

[cleanhippie]

22. He DEFINITELY needs a new pope-mobile.

There is NOTHING superhero-ly about that thing at all.

[randome]

23. His utility triregnum is stocked full of emergency equipment!

[randome]

20. Retiring because David Koch SAID to retire!

[Coyotl]

57. Making room for the Koch brothers pick for new Pope:

[mainstreetonce]

21. The title

Of "Quitter on Twitter " was open for new takers

[oldhippydude]

24. we are seeing historic use ot the "rope a Pope"...

[pinboy3niner]

26. It's comforting...

[cleanhippie]

29. Good one!

[mainer]

27. THIS film has just aired.

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/mea-maxima-culpa-director-alex-gibney-praises-pope-170013599.html

[Marrah_G]

28. He started hanging with Sarah Palin

And she was all like, "screw all that pressure and responsibility shit, you can make way more money selling your own brand and you won't have to give any of it to the Vatican. And the best thing is if people get all up in your face, you can tell them to go fuck themselves!"

[Fight2Win]

48. Can't wait to see him rock climb on his reality show

and his book 'not afraid of Nazis'

[NightWatcher]

30. God laid him off rather than pay for his health insurance

Obama!!!!!

[JoePhilly]

31. He's dating Taylor Swift.

No Pope has ever been featured in a break up song and he wants to be the first.

[ZRT2209]

46. He's feuding with Lindsay Lohan

[Initech]

51. He's going to spend more time Twittering the Grammy Awards #hisexholiness

[Motown_Johnny]

34. IF you really want to start a meme....The Prophecy of the Popes

As I posted earlier

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2352365


Maybe he thinks the end time is near and he wants the final Pope to begin his reign. This way he has a chance of still being alive when Jesus returns. It would be a shame to miss it by just a few years



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes

[jsr]

36. He wants to live with the nuns:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pope-benedict-to-resign-citing-age-and-waning-energy/2013/02/11/f9e90aa6-743b-11e2-8f84-3e4b513b1a13_story.html

Pope Benedict XVI to resign, citing age and waning energy
By Anthony Faiola and Michelle Boorstein, Updated: Monday, February 11, 2013 11:32 AM

LONDON — Recognizing what he described as his failing strength of “mind and body,” Pope Benedict XVI announced Monday that he would step down as head of the Catholic church, the first pontiff to give up his duties since 1415.

“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,” Benedict said in a statement.

Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office, said Benedict will move to the papal residence in Castel Gandolfo following his abdication on Feb. 28, then return to Rome to live in a monastery of cloistered nuns inside the Vatican for a period of prayer and reflection.

[AzDar]

40. To spend more time with his collection...

of Altar Boys?

[cleanhippie]

43. Oooh, thats bad!

But I like it!

[Enrique]

44. i bet it looked something like this

[ZRT2209]

45. Needs more time to prepare for Dancing With the Stars

[HarveyDarkey]

47. Easily explained

[cleanhippie]

63. +1

[agracie]

49. Because he is being forced to share his recipe for holy water, which is as follows:

Pour four cups of water into a pan, and boil the Hell out of it.

[cleanhippie]

64. Very nice!

[pinboy3niner]

50. "You're QUITTING???!!!"

[Coyotl]

54. O.K., and here is a good blank file too.

[cleanhippie]

65. I see what you did there!

[BarbaRosa]

55. Maybe he decided he

was too pooped to pope?

[NoGOPZone]

56. Lost entire Vatican art collection by betting on the 49ers minus three and a half. nt

[lindysalsagal]

58. My personal fav.

[lindysalsagal]

59. Sorry: You're all wrong. He needs time for his recuperation after his....

[OldDem2012]

60. The Catholic child-abuse scandal is finally catching up to him....

Pope Benedict 'complicit in child sex abuse scandals', say victims' groups

QUOTE:

For the legions of people whose childhoods and adult lives were wrecked by sexual and physical abuse at the hands of the Roman Catholic clergy, Pope Benedict XVI is an unloved pontiff who will not be missed.

Victims of the epidemic of sex- and child-abuse scandals that erupted under Benedict's papacy reacted bitterly to his resignation, either charging the outgoing pontiff with being directly complicit in a criminal conspiracy to cover up the thousands of paedophilia cases that have come to light over the past three years, or with failing to stand up to reactionary elements in the church resolved to keep the scandals under wraps.

Boom.

[XRubicon]

61. He just finished reading Atlas Shrugged

Now we all be denied his talent since we are all a bunch of lazy takers. Boy are we going to be sorry...

[backscatter712]

62. Because refilling his Viagra prescription was getting really awkward! n/t