The Pope Resigns!

Benedict, 85, announced his resignation in Latin during a meeting with cardinals Monday morning, and the news was broadcast on Vatican Radio's website shortly after. He's the first pope in 600 years to resign!
"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," the Pope said.
Benedict said his strength, over the last few months, "has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me."

The Pope's older brother, Georg Ratzinger, said Benedict had been advised by his doctors not to make any more transatlantic trips, the German dpa news agency reported. He also said his brother was having increasing difficulty walking.