If it is accurate--and I have no reason to doubt that it is-- the report that Benedict XVI wanted to be known as “Father Benedict” after his resignation is strange and illuminating. Why? Because today he is not known as Father Benedict....in retrospect, we can see the reasoning that lay behind the Pope’s decision to resign. If he felt too weak to enforce his decision on a matter as simple as what he should be called, what decisions could he have enforced?
Maybe he was misinterpreted.
3 posted on 12/12/2014 3:10:14 PM PST by Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")