Before the turn of a new year, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI passed away on the last day of 2022 at the age of 95. READ:
Before the turn of a new year, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI passed away on the last day of 2022 at the age of 95. Today, Jan. 5, 2023, Pope Francis will preside over the funeral of the Pope Emeritus in St. Peter’s Square. His remains will then be taken into St. Peter’s Basilica and then to the Vatican Grottos where he will be finally laid to rest.
The statement also added that Benedict XVI will also be remembered as a “great theologian, catechist, and musician.” “He spent the last years of his life as an Emeritus Pope in solitude and contemplation, supporting the universal Church and Pope Francis spiritually with his prayers.” “He prophetically warned us against the ‘dictatorship of relativism,’ from which our post-truth world is now suffering. He proclaimed the truth of the Gospel through the gift of his eloquence, but also more poignantly, through his humility and silence.”
Andrea Tornielli, editorial director of Vatican News, wrote this very appropriate piece on the Pope Emeritus’ life and contribution to the Church. “If there is one theologian and one Pope who throughout his life reflected and taught on the reasonableness of faith, it was Joseph Ratzinger.
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