Catholics mark a year since Pope Benedict XVI resignation

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/11/catholics-mark-a-year-since-pope-benedict-xvi-resignation/



Catholics mark a year since Pope Benedict XVI resignation
By Agence France-Presse
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 10:36 EST

The Catholic Church on Tuesday marked one year since Benedict XVI became the first pope since the Middle Ages to resign, with Vatican insiders defending his troubled eight-year papacy.

“Today I ask you to join me in prayer for His Holiness Benedict XVI, a man of great courage and humility,” his successor, Pope Francis, said in a message on Twitter.

The Vatican’s spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, joined in the tributes to Benedict, saying that the February 11, 2013 resignation had been “a great act of government that affected the life of the Church”.

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His pontificate, however, was an unpopular one and was marked by scandals in the Church — including a wave of revelations of child sex abuse by priests, communication gaffes and a series of damaging leaks that revealed cloak-and-dagger politics in the Vatican.

[Walk away]

1. Nice P.R. job....

Same scandals, same people in charge... but now Catholics world wide can feel absolved of the rapes, the tampering with politics, the spreading of misinformation in 3rd world countries with deadly consequences etc. These thing have magically disappeared!

Now the cloak and dagger politics of the Vatican can go back into the shadows.