VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI bid an emotional farewell Wednesday on the eve of his retirement, recalling moments of ‘‘joy and light’’ during his papacy, but also times of difficulty when ‘‘it seemed like the Lord was sleeping.’’
Some 150,000 people, many waving banners proclaiming ‘‘Grazie!’’ flooded St. Peter’s Square, eager to bear witness to the final hours of a papacy that will go down in history as the first in 600 years to end in resignation rather than death.
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The Lord wasn't sleeping. Maybe he was just disgusted that priests would prey on the most innocent and that the Church would cover it up for the sake of protecting the institution of the church. That's not religion.
Perhaps he will travel to South America where all the former Nazis fled to.