[Villages PL]

I don't know if this was mentioned before but it just occured to me this morning that the fact of the Pope resigning sends a message about the value of a person as they age. By his actions, the Pope is saying the following: "I am no longer of value to the Catholic Church. I haven't done a good enough job and it will only get worse as my health slowly deteriorates. If I stay, I will be standing in the way of a younger Pope who will be better able to lead the church."

The Pope is supposed to be the Pope for life, for better or worse, in sickness and in health, 'til death takes him. You wouldn't resign from your marriage at age 80, 85, or 90 because you're not performing up to expectations, would you?

This is part of the slippery slope of modernism. Does the Pope approve of divorse in marriage because marriage is not as good in old age as it set out to be on the wedding day? Hopefully, he doesn't; but this is the signal he is sending by resigning. Like it or not, he is devaluing old age.

The result of modernism is that instead of seeing the wisdom of old age, it only sees disability and uselessness.