Everyone made such a big deal of his resignation....Now maybe the hardheads will understand.
It was glorious that JP II and B 16 were both with us for so long.
Prayers for an amazing man of God.
When Pope Francis was elected I had said that I thought Pope Benedict XVI might die within a month........well — I’m going to say within a month from now. By May 10th.
Morbid speculation.
It takes a man whom knows that his destiny is other world to say it is time to resign. May former Pope Bendict enjoy the time he has left and be instrumental in showing true leadership
Very well written my FRiends. I have been away since Ash Wednesday, a bit of a media and information fast if you will. But I should be dropping in about lunchtime on business days and sometimes in the evenings. I’ll admit that fasting from FR was much more difficult than fasting from Facebook which I also did.
God’s will be done in Pope Emeritus Benedict’s case. A genius Holy man. He is already missed and will be sorely so when he passes...
God bless him forever!
Popes much sicker than Pope Benedict XVI lived and died in the office of the Papacy and in a sort of ironic twist, Pope Pius VIII was the Pope who condemned the idea of "razing the bastions" whereas it was Pope Benedict XVI who was in favor of "razing the bastions."
I am unable to see that what Bishop Emeritus Benedict XVI is doing now after his abdication is anything he could not have been doing had he remained Pope for he certainly could have curtailed all unnecessary activities and offered up his suffering as Pope; Pope Blessed John Paul II did
I am not in any way trying to minimise his illness and or suffering but every single Pope - save Celestine (whose circumstances were completely different than were Benedict's) - has lived and died as Pope and yet this novelty is being accepted with alacrity and, already, we have Priests praying for TWO Popes in our Masses and we have supposedly Traditional Catholics calling two men, "Pope."
For those of a pedantic bent, I was referring to Popes who abdicated without others, or odd circumstances , pressuring them to do so.
But look at how rapidly we have become inured to this novelty - Pope as CEO with retirement. The highest and most important office on earth ever created - EVER - is now going to be seen by Catholics as just another job, like the Presidency only not as important....
We praise Thee and we adore Thee.
Grant, we beseech Thee, Thy saintly servant and our Holy Father Pope Emeritus Benedict peace and serenity in his remaining days on earth.
May Thy name be praised above all names and may Thy papacy be ever stronger.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, in the company of St. Peter and all the sainted popes, amen.
