VATICAN CITY
The Telegraph (United Kingdom)
Pope Benedict XVI has announced he will resign on February 28th, saying he no longer had the strength to fulfill the duties of his office.
By Nick Squires, Rome, Barney Henderson and Malcolm Moore
12:26PM GMT 11 Feb 2013
The 85-year-old Pope announced his decision in Latin during a meeting of Vatican cardinals on Monday morning.
“After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths due to an advanced age are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry,” he told the cardinals.
“I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiriual nature, must be carried out not only by words and deeds but no less with prayer and suffering.
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