So Pope Bendict XVI
announced he was going to resign today. It's been nearly 600 years
since that last happened. Back then the Catholic church was racked
with schisms that threaten to undermine the authority of the Holy
See. Popes have resign in the past but never, I believe, on the
grounds of ill health. It's usually been dead man's pointy red shoes
before.
Maybe what Catholicism
needs is a good old fashioned schism. There hasn't been a really big
one in ages. This may sound silly coming from someone who isn't
religious but I think the big organised religions need schisms.
They need them to shake
up the system, make people fight for what they really believe in. If
it splits the church? Then so be it. Nothing last forever, this is as
true for religious institutions as it is for nations.
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