The Catholic Church is taken by suprise today by Pope Benedict IV announcement of his resignation as heeadof the catholic church with immedeiate effect.
In more than six hundred years, no Pope had resigned their post head of the Catholic Church and would remain old in office until their death but Pope Bendict said in a tape releaased by Vatican radio 85 year- old Pope Benedict IV said “in today’s world, the job of the Pope requires strength and I no longer have the strength to perform the job of the Pope and head of the Catholic Church”.
The resignation of Pope Benedict IV is beleive to have no precedence in the Catholic Church in recent history. The College of Cardinal of the Catholic is to elect a new Pope to lead the Catholic Church by the end of March.
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