Pope Francis has just given the Vatican his Ratzinger
If anything, the bond between Francis and Fernandez, both Argentines, runs even deeper than that which linked the Polish John Paul and the German Ratzinger.
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If anything, the bond between Francis and Fernandez, both Argentines, runs even deeper than that which linked the Polish John Paul and the German Ratzinger.
He was a brilliant theologian who condemned the ‘dictatorship of relativism’ and shocked the world by abdicating
Left to himself he would have remained an academic figure. But Providence did not leave him to himself. He chose to accept his calling rather than his predilection.
(OSV News) -- On Dec. 31, the Vatican announced the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who left a lasting legacy over the course of his lifelong service of the Church and who, in 2013, became the first Roman pontiff in 600 years to resign the papacy. At his general audience on Dec. 28, Pope Francis announced that Pope Benedict was “very sick” and requested that the faithful pray for his health and “ask the Lord to console him and sustain him in his witness of love for the Church until t
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