Pope Benedict, leader of Catholic Church and frequent HN contributor, to resign

Posted by jawns on Monday February 11, 2013 @06:33AM
from the cnn.com dept.

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Re:Pope Benedict, leader of Catholic Church and frequent HN ... by p_sherman on Monday February 11, 2013 @06:58AM (#5200379)

>"frequent HN contributor"

What's the point of that exactly? Supposed to be amusing?

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Re:Pope Benedict, leader of Catholic Church and frequent HN ... by rbanffy on Monday February 11, 2013 @07:29AM (#5200449)

I find the absurdity slightly amusing, if a bit misplaced.

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Re:Pope Benedict, leader of Catholic Church and frequent HN ... by gee_totes on Monday February 11, 2013 @08:12AM (#5200573)

I think we might be seeing the birth of HN's first meme. Here is another post (now dead) about the pope:

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Re:Pope Benedict, leader of Catholic Church and frequent HN ... by mtgx on Monday February 11, 2013 @07:15AM (#5200406)

I hear he had covered up a lot of sexual abuses by priests under him from before he was pope.

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