7 years after stepping down, Benedict fuels 'two popes' headache

POPE EMERITUS. File photo of Pope Benedict XVI celebrating the Midnight Mass for Christmas, in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on December 24, 2007. Shutterstock.com

For 5 years, the unusual cohabitation in the smallest state in the world between the 265th pope in retirement and the 266th, Francis, went on without a hitch., a learned theologian, continued in his retirement to write on the great themes of the Church, friction has arisen, most recently over the topic of married priests.after a synod of Amazonian bishops recommended in October that the priesthood be opened to married indigenous people.

Benedict also ruffled feathers in April 2019, when in a long text he blamed pedophilia within the church on the 1960s sexual revolution and an absence of God in modern society. The former pope – who has given himself the title of"emeritus" pope – has now substituted monk's sandals for his red mules of the past, but he continues to wear a white cassock within the Vatican walls.

Such statements have fuelled a traditionalist fringe within the Vatican which considers Francis illegitimate and interprets all writings of Benedict as criticism of his successor.

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