Talk:Pope/Archive1

Dubious origins
I don't really get the "dubious origins" part. Sure we don't know anything about Ol' Peter himself, but Eleutherius in 174 CE is... still pretty damn early, even compared to just about any other institution. -- AKjeldsen Godspeed! 10:29, 6 August 2007 (CDT)
 * Come to think of it, I don't really understand where the part about Eleutherius comes from, either. As far as I recall, Anacletus is the earliest bishop of Rome which we have some reasonably reliable sources about. -- AKjeldsen Godspeed! 10:40, 6 August 2007 (CDT)
 * OK change it if you know better than me, please. It's not something I'm an expert on. Totnesmartin 02:34, 7 August 2007 (CDT)
 * Please feel free to rewrite (and improve). Just because our resident Catholic hater got here first, doesn't mean she owns the subject. human  05:05, 18 February 2008 (EST)

Retiring Popes
You may be right. I was thinking of JPII, for whom it was many times suggested. Editor at CP 12:05, 10 December 2007 (EST)
 * Yes, and I believe he himself also considered resigning after the Jubilee in 2000, but decided not to. In any case, I expect the question will come up again for pretty much every aging pope in the future, although there are some fairly complex issues involved. -- AKjeldsen Godspeed! 12:20, 10 December 2007 (EST)