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Originally posted by ark13Depends if you regard being head of an organisation with several million paid employees, being Head of State for its own country with diplomatic missions, owning an asset base including schools and hospitals worth billions with tens of millions being assisted by these services, and several hundred million who regard it at as a cornerstone of their lives as being nothing.
Would it really matter if the pope was in a coma. Does he really do anything?
How does it compare with your own job?
Originally posted by steerpike"Sell your riches and give the money to the poor. and follow me""
Depends if you regard being head of an organisation with several million paid employees, being Head of State for its own country with diplomatic missions, owning an asset base including schools and hospitals worth billions with tens of millions being assisted by these services, and several hundred million who regard it at as a cornerstone of their lives as being nothing.
How does it compare with your own job?
"Render therefore unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's"
You left out him secretly being the King of England and a Grand Wazoo of the Mason's!
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Originally posted by shavixmirit's allowed in 1294 , Pope St. Celestine V
I'm not sure on this, but I was under the impression that the pope couldn't resign...
It's like a job for life...
(PIETRO DI MURRONE.) did infact resign.
A week later (13 December) Celestine's resolution was irrevocably fixed; summoning the cardinals on that day, he read the constitution mentioned by Boniface in the "Liber Sextus", announced his resignation, and proclaimed the cardinals free to proceed to a new election
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03479b.htm
Several Popes have resigned including Benedict IX (1033-44), Gregory VI (1044-46), Celestine V (1294) and most recently Gregory XII (1406-15).
http://www.popechart.com/FAQ.htm#resign