Benedict XVI, aka Joseph Ratzinger, the Papa Ratzi, the former Nazi, the man with the evil grin, is resigning as Pope. This is kind of weird because Popes are appointed for life. The last Pope to ever leave the office by any other means than dying was Gregory XII, way back in 1415, and that was during a really strange period in European history when there was a French Pope and an Italian Pope and burning people at the stake was still legal. Gregory XII had real reasons to resign.
Someone Else Will Get a Turn to Wear the Funny Hat
Ratzinger says he’s resigning for his health, but that’s bullshit. Everybody gets old, everybody dies, and there could be no better place to do it than in a golden palace in Rome, surrounded by servants and sycophants ready to wait on you hand and foot, while a couple of your favorite Cardinals go out and give speeches and issue edicts in your name.
My guess is that he’s resigning because this whole Vatican corruption scandal (which includes but is not limited to revelations that the Catholic Church,at least from the priests on up, is nothing less than a 2,000 year old pedophilia ring) is not over. VAMBLA, the Vatican Man Boy Love Association.
So, the next Pope will get the job of doing damage control, of trying to restore the church’s reputation. Whoever it is, I don’t envy him the job.
Like the Republican party saying they need to rebrand themselves and convince the American people that they are not the “stupid people’s party” (hey, Bobby Jindal said it, too) or Fox News trying to reclaim their “fair and balanced” reputation, it’s a near impossible task.
The reason is that people’s impression of the Vatican as a bastion of buggery, the Republicans as the stupid party, and Fox News as a lying, right wing propaganda spewing machine are, indeed, correct impressions.
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