They say a Pope hasn't resigned for 500 years but that's not true. One resigned in 1958.

Benedict has just resigned. This time it's more open.

If he has moved pedo Priests around he will bear responsibility for that. He could have swept them under the carpet. His intentions will have been to keep the Church going.

Whoever is Pope now they will have the shadow of a living Pope. Cardinal Siri didn't die until 1989 and he was kept in confinement. Benedict has chosen confinement they say.