The Mazza Hypothesis: Benedict resigned as Bishop of Rome but not Vicar of Christ. Wherein Fr. Z ponders with a heavy heart.

The Mazza Hypothesis: Benedict resigned as Bishop of Rome but not Vicar of Christ. Wherein Fr. Z ponders with a heavy heart.: I've been pondering lately.   One needs to do this out of love.  Ponder, comes from Latin pondus, "weight".  Hence, I am weighing things.  Augustine famously wrote, amor meus pondus meum... my love is my weight.  In Augustine's time, gravity was thought to be an interior force that compelled things