http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21411304

There will be those who believe that the next pope will be the last one and that the world will come to an end with the Day of Judgement.

http://www.holocaustrevealed.org/english/s/p288.html

The name of the last pope will be Peter of Rome.

Oh we're all adults . . .

Simon Cowell should get in there for a TV show searching for the new pope, they could call it 'Pope Idol'... geddit? Do ya geddit? I got it... made me laff.

Being raised  Catholic,but now totally athiest,I ain't bovvered.

  me too 

@RepJackKimble: The Pope is stepping down. He will be remembered as a visionary who helped protect the church from gays, women, and poor people. ^^^^ that's m'favourite tweet so far.

Good riddance!

Exactly. I wanna hear 'em Kaffy - and I'm catholic.

me too   *dodges thunderbolt from heaven* 

They're all over Twitter - I'll get some.    I quite like the hashtag  #exbenedict

So will we be seeing Pope Benedict XVI on the next series of#Splash?

“@Number10cat: You know the economy's bad when God's making people redundant... #Pope”

BREAKING: eBay announce they are investigating transactions relating to Pope Benedict XVI's Papal account ...

Will the papacy now be foisted upon a younger pope with a stutter and a fear of public speaking #thepopesspeech

 

 

I heard its cos the pope called two Swiss guards 'plebs'.

 

Most of his working life seemed to involve sitting in a chair and looking out of a window. I wonder how he’s going to spend his retirement?

 

Edited.. I don't think these are offensive really

I honestly thought the title was a joke.  I'm not catholic, but for the love of god isn't being the pope almost like being Jesus?

“@Number10cat: You know the economy's bad when God's making people redundant... #Pope”

 Oh that's brilliant

Cinds Il Pappa is God's representative on earth for all of us Catholics  

I love the last tweet in Kaff's post

Pope resigns!! 

Like a good Catholic he's pulled out early!!

I came out of the gym but still had my earphones in when the OH collected me.  He said 'The Pope resigned the day' but I heard it as 'The pope came out as gay' my mean OH let me go into a conversation about it before he even corrected me.

all joking aside, it seems strange that he's resigned - even for ill health reasons as he's allegedly compos mentis  wonder if he has some other degenerating disease that we've not been told about??? 

 

Just curious like 

Text from Prince Charles: "Pope Benedict XVI is standing down to give someone younger a chance at leading a Church. Just saying."

Pengy, OR...   there's a scandal involving him about to break? 

 

b.t.w. love your Father Dougal pic  and Kaffy's jokes ROFL!!!  

 

I am stunned that some of the comments have been allowed to be posted on here. I am broad minded and I can take a joke but some of the comments are offensive to people like myself who are practising Catholics.

 

Sorry Erin - that's why I wasn't going to post any, but nobody seemed to mind.   I deliberately left out some of the really bad ones.    I'll edit.

Thankyou for that Kaffy,much appreciated

No worries Erin 

Oh that would be brilliant.

 

But sadly Catholics dont get to vote on who their pope is.

I am a catholic too but I find some of the posts very funny.  There are much worse out there which haven't been posted here, these ones are very tame.  I'm sure no-one who posted here meant any offence 

Sorry Erinp   many Catholics like myself feel the church has been badly served by some of its clerical members. This Pope had an appalling track record when it came to rooting out the abusive priests that blighted the Church for years. Nor was he on the side of the victims. More abuse would have been prevented if he'd dealt with it in a more humane, Christlike way. I'd say a lot of Catholics are ashamed and disgusted at the Vatican. I'm not criticising the faith, but those who let down the faith. 

someone has reported seeing Tony Blair hanging around fancy dress shops asking about the price of a pope outfit

gotta agree

like everything else in world the faith has turned into a self serving monster-i do not trust anyone in a position of power & from headlines-ive got a bloody good reason to think that way

 

I don't think even the Vatican can afford him.

 Sounds about right. Was Cherie with him asking for discounts?