CEO of Catholic Church

Resignation of the pope has happened after 600 years and so to say we have the chance to wish him a good life in his rest of his life. He was clear in his words and message that he cannot do justice to 1,2 Billion Catholics at this age of 85. He is the man of the times. He had proved that he is also a human being with a likely burnout stage as any other human being.

His act of resignation has got a message to the whole world of Catholics who are also unlikely to sense this message. When I say to sense the message, I may be wrong. We all sense that and we all know that but sometimes we are not read yet accept the fact of the humanness in the Popes, cardinals, Bishops, priests and all religious.  They are all human beings and they have the same flesh and blood as all human beings and their thought patterns can also be influenced by any other human beings. They also have emotions and feelings.

He might have got the inspiration to resign from his own friend, Rowan Williams, who also surprised by deciding to resign early as the Bishop of Canterbury. At that time of his resignation, there was really a discussion in the inner circles about the like to be resignation of Pope Benedict also. And at last it happened so.

By the resignations he just proved to the world that he was just a CEO rather than God’s man on earth. He brought the fancied ideas and beliefs to the reality. Faith need to be tied to the reality and life with the threads of rationality and it helps not to jump from the faith realm to superstition.  I believe in Jesus who was the son of God and who reformed the society rather than being projecting him as a magician.