re: #123 Lidane

I don’t get why ‘people’ aren’t. Sure, those are all reasons why he doesn’t want to stay on, but this is happening in the context of John Paul II grimly, slowly dying while causing people to murmuring question his decisions based on his obvious disability. He’s just been told he can’t travel internationally. And most of all, he already wanted to resign before he became pope.

Obviously some are going to come up with their own theories but I hope that most people will see both that the most obvious explanation is exactly what he said— he feels like crap, his mind is beginning to go, and it’s time for him to give it up before he starts screwing it up— and that by trying to intrude we’re violating medical privacy, which is a very important right to uphold.