All over the world cardinal began to informal contact, to discuss the next step is to lead the church after a period of great crisis and the Vatican says it plans to a big sendoff Pope Benedict xvi before he became the first Pope to resign in the century.
In Tuesday's press conference, the Pope plan in the next two weeks ago, he went out of the limelight, the Vatican also revealed, the 85 - year - old Benedict xvi has been wearing a cardiac pacemaker, because before in 2005 he was elected Pope.
It says, there is no specific disease causes him to resign, but old age and reduce mental and physical strength.
The company also said that, in February and, after the resignation, his church operation, he won't make any difference.
The Vatican spokesman LongBaDi the priest said: "the Pope in his statement, he will use his prayers and reflect on time, won't have any responsibility guidance, the church or any administrative or governmental responsibility,".
Lombardi said: "it is absolutely clear, this is completely in the sense of resignation," he "will not in any way intervention" trying to influence the choice of his successor.
Shock announcement issued haste to change some of the Pope's activity space, let more people can see him to resign before the Vatican.
Last Wednesday, the Pope is lead to the traditional ash Wednesday in a small church in Rome, but the event has been transferred to st.peter's, may be the last time he in the quality of the public service.
His last general audience, plan, the day before his resignation, already from the Vatican audience hall, with a capacity of about 10000 people, st. Peter's cathedral square, can accommodate hundreds of thousands of.
CONVENT RETREAT
The office for two months and days, he left, he will be the first papal Summer Palace south, then to an isolated monasteries Vatican wall, communication, his brilliant 16th century apostolic palace awake modern house.
In the middle of march, about 115 cardinal will enter the Sistine Chapel (Sistine Chapel), the world's 1.2 billion Roman catholics election next leader. The cardinals lost into secret session, they put 80 to start the day the secret meetings so the exact number will depend on their rights.
Although the Vatican for Pope Benedict xvi start to prepare for the last few days of the church sources said, what type of leader should be the next the Pope's cardinal informal consultations between mobile phones, in the lunch and through the electronic mail has started.
After a series of scandals, the church experts say, cardinal will look for a person to not only is a holy man, as well as a good manager.
"A lot of cardinal will tell your records said:" if you ask them for their the Pope's private assessment person, he is a great man, is holy, and the true, honest, modest, his teachings will stand the test of time, John Allen at the Vatican, the author of several books.
"But they also say that there is a system, around Benedict xvi, don't know how to make the train running on time, they often is ignored, pick up the pieces of the bomb in here," he said.
Disaster and poor management
Benedict xvi has malfunction, will be in his friend, the secretariat BeiErTuo Tarcisio country in the hands of the cardinal power is too big. Critics of the broadcom, effectively the Vatican's chief administrator, he said he should stop Pope accident and bureaucratic mistakes.
Pope Benedict xvi priest sexual abuse of children in Europe and the United States, most of them in the office, but his time in it, before the crisis the shock.
His rule also saw Muslim anger, he compared the islamic violence. The jews angry, deny massacre rehabilitation. In a scandal, the church's business, his housekeeper alleged leaked their personal documents.
, "Allen said:" this is a perpetual frustration outside the Vatican cardinal, I think they worry, no matter who take over need a little bit more church internal governance concern, especially the Vatican.
The outside world has been speculation that growth, the church appointed its first European leaders not to reflect more and more heavy regions, such as Africa or Latin America, and now accounts for 42% of the world's Roman Catholic.
"This may be black Pope, or yellow, or red, or Latin American time, the archbishop of Guatemala's Oscar Julio cesar vian morales said:" Benedict xvi released after.



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