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To: Mrs. Don-o
Benedict (Joseph Ratzinger) is not a pope now at all

Then why the title, "Pope Emeritus?"

let me, in all charity and a spirit of Christian good will, advise you to knock it off.

Thanks. I needed that and will comply.

13 posted on 12/12/2014 4:05:33 PM PST by Kenny Bunk (The fate of the Republic rests in the hands of the '15 -16 Congress. God help us.)
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To: Kenny Bunk
"Then why the title, "Pope Emeritus?"

That's why he didn't want the title "Pope Emeritus." This puzzling title is unprecedented historically, and thus not defined.

I am touched in my heart, and will henceforth call him Father Benedict. Or even Father Ratzinger. That's who he is.

It dismays me so deeply me that some little clerical bureaucRAT got it all twisty-tailed around at a point when Benedict was so weak he couldn't nail down all the details.

It's maddening.

18 posted on 12/12/2014 4:14:36 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful, and kindle in them the fire of Thy love.)
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To: Kenny Bunk

Thank you for your good will.


19 posted on 12/12/2014 4:16:48 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful, and kindle in them the fire of Thy love.)
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