re: Pope Benedict Dead

Ratzinger was head of DDF under John Paul - the purpose of which is to defend catholic doctrine. His nickname was god's rottweiler. He was very strict and very conservative. He was old and overwhelmed with the problems in the church; the bullshite going on in the Vatican bank, the scale of the sex crimes and then realizing he was too old to confront it all when someone on the inside leaked a bunch of his personal stuff. He was the first Pope to try to clean up the shite show. He defrocked something like 400 priests and he tried to undo the fraud system in the Bank (Italian authorities started seizing illegal bank funds) Ultimately he realized he couldn't deal with the magnitude of the problem so he threw in the towel, retired, and wrote a paper later saying the church was wrecked basically.