Posted on 10/03/2016 5:28:06 PM PDT by marshmallow
Edited on 10/03/2016 6:08:28 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The long-time personal aide to Benedict XVI has said the retired pope had hoped to stay in the papacy until 2014 but resigned a year earlier because of the World Cup.
Mgr Georg Gaenswein
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicherald.co.uk ...
While not Catholic, I liked Benedict and miss him being Pope instead of the puppet around nowadays.
I read this article and still don’t know what the hell the World Cup had to do with the Pope’s resignation.
Yes !!Good guy. People come and people go. To each his own.
meh
I still believe he was forced out.
He was planning to join a team?
You may have unknowingly stopped at an add half way through. After the add, it explains the WYD in Brazil was supposed to be in 2014, but because the cup was also slated to be in Brazil in 2014 they moved WYD to 2013. B XVI figured that the Pope needed to go to WYD and that he wasn’t in shape to go to Brazil.
Me too, I think he discovered something he shouldn't have.
Cardinal Ratzinger became Pope Benedict xvi while suffering since 1994. “...ever shorter steps.” He is a Doctor of the Church, has failing health and is innocent.
Looking back, he should have cancelled WYD 2013 and should have upset two million people who love JP II. Oh well, he dropped out, let the next Pope go to WYD 2013 and now we are suffering from a heretical Francis.
JP II set the bar way too high for others to follow. Even Francis is getting weaker each month.
Solution: keep WYD in Rome just as we should keep Olympics in Athens.
The office/position/Papacy has very little privacy.
He is an active gay man. His election as Pope was travesty.
I’m sorry, but do you think JPII was in good condition the last few years of his Papacy? But he stuck with it through the end, and he testament to living until the end although in great pain sent a powerful message and reached millions.
What?
Troll
This story has been debunked. It was NOT the World Cup...but rather World Youth Day.
“However, it turned out that the decision to step down had not been due to the pope’s love of soccer but instead because a doctor had warned Benedict that he could no longer take transatlantic flights, according to AP.
Gaenswein explained that the pontiff had planned on holding out on his resignation until the World Youth Day event in Rio de Janeiro. The popular event usually takes place every three years and should have taken place in 2014 but due to the World Cup being hosted in Brazil that year, World Youth Day was held a year early.”
https://www.rt.com/viral/361391-pope-benedict-resignation-cup
Poor reporting, sloppy translation. Imagine that!
Your substantiation for this is what?
“The former pope Benedict has claimed that his resignation in February was prompted by God, who told him to do it during a “mystical experience”.
Breaking his silence for the first time since he became the first pope to step down in 600 years, the 86-year-old reportedly said: “God told me to” when asked what had pushed him to retire to a secluded residence in the Vatican gardens.
Benedict denied he had been visited by an apparition or had heard God’s voice, but said he had undergone a “mystical experience” during which God had inspired in him an “absolute desire” to dedicate his life to prayer rather than push on as pope.”
“https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/21/pope-benedict-god-resign-mystical-experience
More mockery of the papacy from the post Vatican II “popes”.
Benedict merely realized that Francis would be much more effective at pushing their Modernist agenda along....
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