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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (18090)	3/13/2013 5:05:19 PM
From: SmoothSail	Respond to of 23934

As I said to someone else: It's all over the news. He commissioned a report and stepped down within days of it being delivered. Only one other time in history did this happen - that a pope resigned. There was no warning that he would step down. All the other popes died in office. They had to carry John Paul and prop him up. Benedict isn't sick. Don't you think he's being treated a little shabby? They couch the language in terms of: he'll spend his final days in meditation living simply in a monastery. Why is he being excluded? Why did they burn all his belongings instead of putting them on display like they do with all the other popes? For comparison, when cardinals retire, they're given a mansion in a nice part of any town they want to live in with a generous retirement check. They celebrate with lots of pageantry when a new cardinal comes in. Even a disgraced cardinal like Mahoney of Los Angeles, who covered up years of sexual molestation, was given a mansion and a great parish to say mass in. Why is he living in a simple monastery cell? No luxuries? Kept out of the public's eye? Because he wants to?