I encourage all to join me in
praying for Pope Benedict.
And that not only because this is
the last day of his pontificate, but also because, as The Anchoress notes, the man
is tired at best.
There has been much speculation
about the *real* reason he is resigning.
I will not bother to repeat said rumors. I will say I haven’t yet heard the resignation blamed on the
Sequester of Doom, but maybe Obama and the noos media just haven’t gotten around
to that yet.
But perhaps we ought instead to
take his resignation statement at face value:
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. I am well aware that this
ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only
with 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 Saint Peter and proclaim the gospel, both strength of mind and body
are necessary, strength which in the last few months has deteriorated in me to
the extent that I have had to recognise my incapacity to adequately fulfil the
ministry entrusted to me.
Yes, do pray for Pope Benedict.
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