February 15, 2013

Can Mormon Apostles Abdicate?

Peggy Fletcher Stack, Salt Lake Tribune

Catholic popes, Mormon prophets and Tibetan dalai lamas arrive at their offices via different avenues. They are voted in, outlive their peers or are recognized from childhood.

They all leave the same way: They stop breathing.

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