Retired pope was rarely seen - but he was heard

When Pope Benedict shocked the Roman Catholic Church in 2013 by announcing he would resign instead of ruling for life, he promised to stay in the Vatican"hidden from the world".Benedict wrote, gave interviews and, unwittingly or not, became a lightning rod for opponents of Pope Francis, either for doctrinal reasons or because they were loath to relinquish the clerical privileges the new pope wanted to dismantle.

Celestine V was pope for five months in 1294 before he quit, concluding there was far more holiness in his previous life as a mountain hermit than in the Vatican with its clerical and political intrigue. In a 2019 article for a Catholic magazine in Germany, Benedict linked the church's child sexual abuse scandal to the sexual revolution of the 1960s, which he said had spawned a general collapse in morality.

As late as 2021, eight years after he resigned, Benedict still had to chide"some of my more fanatical friends" who never accepted his decision to step aside and who rejected the legitimacy of Francis. The American publisher refused and Sarah rejected media accusations that he had taken advantage of the frail ex-pope.

"Symbols communicate, they teach. If you are not the pope,you should not be wearing white. Having two men wearing white sitting next to each other makes them look like they are equals,when they are not," he wrote.

Very doubtful this was said!

Typical of all Nazi youth tho, they quietly disappear and work behind the scenes

Well, he’s gone straight into Satan’s bosom. Zero chance of heaven for him.

The best thing he did as pope was retire.

The people of Ireland will light a candle for the former pope tonight 🙏🏻✝️ R.I.P

Rest In Peace

No one cares about the pope . It's not 1991

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