Good grief! The man is old, feels old and knows that a younger man would be able to do the role as well or better than him.
My father is 83 and has a pacemaker and is in generally good health. I asked him how he would like to have the pace at which Benedict works, with the travel and constant meetings and greetings, not to mention the supervision of Papal documents and his own writing. My dad said, "I don't know how he keeps up with it all. Just thinking about what he does leaves me exhausted."
Before pacemakers pope's just died. There are enough good, younger, healthy men for the Holy Spirit to chose from.
He is not strong enough to deal with the Tsunami.
The Catholic Church is entangled in a Vatican Bank Scandal that is growing worse.
Tourists couldn’t even use credit cards at the Vatican in January. Don’t know if that has been resolved yet.
The Child Molesting scandal is growing worse - now Mahony , one of the most powerful Catholic leaders in the US has been stripped of his duties
And the Pope is fighting an internal power struggle.
Too much for the guy who didn’t even want the job.
He has been forced out over the Vatican Bank scandal.