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2023-01-29 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Insomnia drove late Pope Benedict to resign: report

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Posted by trailing wife 2023-01-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

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Given, the #1 cause of Insomnia is usually stress and anxiety, which was likely caused by the job.

I would have to ask what role did the many moral issues he was dealing with and trying to correct in the Vatican also play?

Posted by NN2N1 2023-01-29 08:12|| 2023-01-29 08:12|| Front Page Top

#2 My thoughts exactly NN2N1. Or his conscience was bothering him from his own past.

Posted by Chris 2023-01-29 10:16|| 2023-01-29 10:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Nothing like pedophilia in the Vatican/Catholic ranks to keep one up at night. I guess even reading the good book while lying in bed at night didn't help.

Or, he had memories of John Paul I.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-01-29 10:27|| 2023-01-29 10:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Historically the Pope was the more the secular leader of the Holy States, a large fraction of what is now modern Italy, and the College of Cardinals had the role of deciding theology. In modern times it must be a tremendous strain to be 'perfect', unless you are a raving megalomaniac.

Posted by magpie 2023-01-29 13:29|| 2023-01-29 13:29|| Front Page Top

#5 He did some good stuff and angered all the right people. I think he knew the true condition of the Vatican and felt that he didn’t have the strength to get the needed reformation done.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-01-29 16:01|| 2023-01-29 16:01|| Front Page Top

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