Make popes accountable in this life Don't let Benedict hide and reflect till he dies

Looks and sounds like prison to me

* Retiring Pope Benedict XVI will be "hidden to the world": Pope Benedict XVI offered a glimpse of what his post-resignation life will be like, telling a gathering of Rome's parish priests that he will be "hidden to the world" after he steps down at the end of the month, CBS News correspondent Allen Pizzey reports

  
*Now we know why the pope is going into hiding! Papal resignation linked to inquiry into 'Vatican gay officials', says paper
 

Benedict will leave Vatican City by helicopter at 5 p.m. on February 28 for Castel Gandolfo, about sixteen miles away. Three hours later he will go from being the spiritual leader of 1.2 billion Catholics to the first retired Pope in more than 600 years.

 *The Pope’s New Pad: Where Benedict XVI Will Live after He Steps Down: After he steps down at the end of the month — becoming, incidentally, the first pope to do so in nearly 600 years — he’ll head to Castel Gandolfo, a small town in the hills southeast of Rome that houses a majestic papal residence. The Pontifical Palace has been used as a summer home for every pope since Urban VIII in the 1600s.

 *Make popes accountable in this life: The Church exemplifies some of the oldest bad governance syndromes. Popes fall neatly into the category of what in business is known as the over-dominant chief executive. 

They are subject to no real oversight or accountability, at least in this world. And the Church has its own version of reward for failure.  

Where in corporate life these are about excessive pay for failed executives, in the Church they have been about protecting those who showed too much tolerance of child abuse.

When it comes to money, the Catholic Church has been dismally incapable of restoring its reputation following the Vatican Bank’s involvement in the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano in the 1980s – which involved allegations of money laundering for the Mafia.

It might be because I am a life long Catholic but when I first heard the Pope was going to go into seclusion and never to be seen again because he was reflecting until he dies I thought "well that's cool. However, then I was remembering the horror stories of the Catholic church and it was far from the recent child abuse. History of the Catholic church "persecutions.

*Reflecting on it myself I say you may love the pope but it is not right to legally let him hide behind walls for the rest of his life and not tell the truth about all he knows about the truth of the abuse the Catholic church has caused and covered up. This is the big cover up and he is being praised in his departure.

This is the pope! He is the one man in the world that knows everything that has gone on behind the scenes of the catholic church. We are letting him go! I have not heard a single word about at least talking to him. Put him on the hot seat. He is a Catholic scholar. He knows the often terrible Catholic History.

This is the first time in 600 years that we have a chance to talk to the man that ran the catholic church of 1.2 billion followers. Come on, this is a one in 25 life time chance.

James Joiner

Gardner, Ma

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