Looks like the eighth dwarf

Well, it happened.  An event that hasn’t taken place for over five hundred years happened and it has had an immediate impact on millions of people.  Most of them journalists.

Pope Benedict the somethingth (I don’t know – it’s more than ten) has abdicated his position.  He’s stepping down.  For almost every pope that preceded him, the papacy was a death sentence.  They literally worked themselves to death. Not this pope, though.  He’d like some time to enjoy his final years in a way that is just a little less infallible.

Lots of pressure goes with infallibility, I would imagine.  Many popes before Benedict the VIIVXth have felt that pressure and they never had the guts to just give it up.  They were probably too attached to the colorful robes that were definitely NOT GAY and the golden jewelry that was also NOT GAY and living in the one country in the world almost entirely populated by men, who are all NOT GAY.

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