Papa Benedict VXI atangaza rasmi kujiuzulu

Updates 1:
Kiongozi wa Kanisa Katoliki Duniani, Papa Benedict wa 16 ametangaza rasmi kujiuzulu mwishoni mwa mwezi huu, sababu kubwa ikiwa ni kutokana na umri mkubwa alio nao ambao kwa mujibu wake anaona apumzike ili aweze kupisha wengine kutumikia hilo.


Papa mwenye umri wa miaka 85 sasa, amefikia uamuzi huo na kusoma waraka wake mbele ya viongozi wenzake wa kanisa alisema amechukua uamuzi huo mzito baada ya kuutafakari kwa muda mrefu kidogo.

Father Federico Lombardi ambaye ndiye msemaji wa Papa ametoa taarifa hizi rasmi leo  kwa vyombo vya habari, ikiwa ni ujumbe wa moja kwa moja kutoka kwa Papa kwa makadinali wa kanisa hilo duniani.

Papa huyu atatimiza umri wa miaka 86 tarehe 16 mwezi April na alichaguliwa kushika nafasi hii mwaka 2005 akiwa mjerumani wa 6 kushika nafasi hiyo ya juu katika kanisa Katoliki na wa kwanza kabisa kuhudumia kanisa kama papa kutokea karne ya 21.

 Ufuatao ni waraka wake alioutoa leo kwa vyombo vya habari......

Updates 3: His Statement

Dear Brothers,

I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonisations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. 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.

I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the bark of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognise my incapacity to adequately fulfil the ministry entrusted to me.

For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is.

Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects. And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff. With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer.

From the Vatican, 10 February 2013
BENEDICTUS PP XVI