[Catholic Caucus] Pope Benedict: I resigned, but I kept ‘spiritual dimension’ of papacy

Lifesite News ^ | Maike Hickson

[sitetest]

May 6, 2020

(LifeSiteNews) – In a new biography released on May 4, Pope Benedict makes some statements that highlight his own understanding of his resignation from the papacy. He speaks in this book about the “spiritual dimension...which is alone still my mandate.” He shows an understanding of his resignation from the papacy, according to which he gave up any “concrete legal powers” and any role of governance, but at the same time maintained a “spiritual mandate.”

Pope Benedict XVI answered, in the autumn of 2018, several written questions by his biographer Peter Seewald, which then were included in Seewald's more than 1,000-page-long biography titled Benedict XVI: A Life. This book has been released in German today and will be published in English on November 17.

[cloudmountain]

There’s nothing wrong with the term “Holy Ghost”. The word “Ghost” comes from a Germanic root and is cognate to the German “geist”. “Spirit” comes from Latin. They mean the same thing.

I know that. If you read the rest of my post I added that in ENGLISH there IS a difference between GHOST and SPIRIT. Whatever the Pope said in German hasn't much to do with the English translation.
WE DON'T SPEAK LATIN.
Got it now?

[cloudmountain]

And your point to me is....?