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Pope Benedict XVI Scenario a doubt in faith or an improvement.....

Recently news of The Pope resigning is everywhere. And  it seems if your a christian you need to have an opinion on the Topic. I mean its a decision which he seemed to have made in good intentions....... or maybe there is a deeper story. But another question in many peoples mind "How can we have faith in the Roman Catholic religion?"       I don`t feel this is a reason one looses faith in the religion. Cause if you have Faith you do not have to depend on the superficial stuff.  Came across a book which puts things into perceptive.  "The Bad Popes   is a 1969 by  E. R. Chamberlin  "  documenting the lives of eight of the most controversial   popes   (papal years in parentheses): Pope Stephen VI  (896–897), who had his predecessor  Pope Formosus   exhumed, tried, de-fingered , briefly reburied, and thrown in the  Tiber . Pope John XII  (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with hi