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Has this ever happened before?

In a word, yes

Well it certainly isn't "to spend more time with my family"

Wonder what the severance package is like, did operation Yew Tree get to the Vatican...Saville has visited, afterall..?

Does this mean the sky fairy made an error in his selection process?

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That's quite a resignation letter.

I expect he's realised that god is entirely fictional - I can see how that would dent one's enthusiasm for the job. "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.

"For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of bishop of Rome, successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20

That's quite a resignation letter.

I expect he's realised that god is entirely fictional - I can see how that would dent one's enthusiasm for the job.

I expect he got a better offer elsewhere, maybe the church could change his mind with a better salary offer and a newer car ?

Right, so only one pope left to go before the end of the world.

Those that have visited St Pauls outside the Walls in Rome may know what I'm on about.

If the next one is called Peter and is from Rome, we're boned!

Big money transfer to Islam

He impressed his new employers at the interview when he told them he was a real 'Papal person'.

Khamenei says he has the backing of the board and is going nowhere.

The dreaded vote of confidence. He's on his way.

Not for around 600 years according to the news earlier.

The news quite a bit earlier, then.

I bet you googled the spelling?