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« Reply #340 on: December 02, 2019, 04:44:14 PM »

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/benedict-xvi-reflects-on-50-years-of-the-international-theological-commission-38382

Benedict XVI reflects on 50 years of the International Theological Commission
By Courtney Mares

Vatican City, Nov 30, 2019 / 10:38 am (CNA).- Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI sent a message to the International Theological Commission this week reflecting on the theological contributions of the commission that he led for nearly half of its 50-year history.

“Only humility can find the Truth, and the Truth in turn is the foundation of Love, from which ultimately everything depends,” Benedict XVI wrote in a message read aloud to the International Theological Commission.

The pope emeritus expressed “gratitude for what has been accomplished in half a century” by the theological commission, “even with all the inadequacies of the human search.”

Benedict XVI, then Joseph Ratzinger, served as president of the International Theological Commission from 1982-2005 as prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith under St. John Paul II.

St. Paul VI appointed Ratzinger as a member of the first International Theological Commission in 1969, along with Henri de Lubac, Karl Rahner, Yves Congar, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and 25 others.

In his message for an event at the Pontifical Lateran University Nov. 28 on the 50th anniversary of the Founding of the Commission, the pope emeritus reflected on the theologians who had been his collaborators on the first commission.
 
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« Reply #341 on: December 02, 2019, 04:49:54 PM »

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2019-12/benedict-caritas-veritate-anniversary.html

Pope Benedict XVI's Encyclical 'Caritas in veritate' remembered
02 December 2019, 09:00

The Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development holds an international conference honouring the 10th anniversary of Pope Benedict's encyclical "Caritas in veritate".
By Vatican News

10 years after the publication of Pope Benedict XVI’s Encyclical Caritas in veritate, the Vatican Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development (PIHD) will hold an International Conference on the theme “Theory and Praxis of Development”. The Conference will be held in the Casina Pio IV of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in the Vatican, on Tuesday, 3 December 2019.

Caritas in veritate

Caritas in veritate is an Encyclical promulgated by Pope Benedict XVI on 29 June 2009. He wrote it about forty years after Pope St Paul VI issued the Encyclical Populorum progressio. As such, Caritas in veritate updated Paul VI’s thought not only by placing attention on the theme of “human ecology”, but also stressing that, “authentic human development concerns the whole of the person in every single dimension” (CV, 11).
Context

Providing the background for the Encyclical were various international realities present at the time: persistent poverty, hunger, exploitation, the emergence of environmental issues, globalization and planetary interdependence, the new means of communication, the growing difficulty of national governments to confront global powers and multinational companies, the financial crisis and financial institutions, etc.
 
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« Reply #342 on: December 03, 2019, 05:34:11 PM »

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2019-12/cardinal-turkson-the-impact-of-caritas-in-veritate-ten-years.html

Cardinal Turkson: the impact of “Caritas in veritate” after ten years
03 December 2019, 09:32

Ahead of a seminar on Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical “Caritas in veritate”, Cardinal Peter Turkson looks at the impact of the document in the areas of ecology and integral human development.
By Vatican News

Ten years ago, Pope Benedict XVI published his third and final encyclical, Caritas in veritate, on “integral human development in charity and truth”. To mark the occasion, the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development has organized a seminar on the “theory and praxis of development”, which is taking place on Tuesday in the Vatican.

Ahead of the seminar, the Prefect for the Dicastery, Cardinal Peter Turkson, offered his reflections on the impact of Caritas in veritate, especially in the fields of “ecology” and “integral human development”.

Here is the full text of Cardinal Turkson’s presentation:
 
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« Reply #343 on: December 03, 2019, 05:42:35 PM »

Video, with English commentary and text, at the link

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2019-12/pope-benedict-encyclical-ten-years-later-caritas-in-veritate.html
"Caritas in veritate": Pope Benedict XVI's enyclical 10 years later
03 December 2019, 17:00

The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development organises an International Conference in the Vatican to explore the impact and inflluence of Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical, Caritas in veritate, ten years after its publication.

Pope Benedict XVI wrote three encyclicals. Caritas in veritate is the third.

Published on 29 June 2009, and coming forty years after Pope St. Paul VI’s Encyclical, Populorum progressio, Caritas in veritate confirms how “charity in truth” is the principal force behind the true development of every person and of all humanity.

Benedict XVI once said,  "Only with charity, illumined by reason and by faith, is it possible to achieve goals of development endowed with human and humanizing values".

These same values were at the heart of an International Conference on the theme, “Theory and Praxis of Development”, held in the Vatican on Tuesday December 3rd, and organized by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.
 
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« Reply #344 on: December 20, 2019, 06:00:29 PM »

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/benedict-xvi-creates-foundation-for-catholic-journalism-in-germany-37698

Benedict XVI creates foundation for Catholic journalism in Germany

Würzburg, Germany, Dec 20, 2019 / 10:24 am (CNA).- In what came as a surprise to many members of the Catholic elite in Germany, Pope emeritus Benedict XVI has launched a foundation for Catholic journalism in his home country.

“I want the Catholic voice to be heard,” the retired Roman pontiff, who has resided in a Vatican monastery since his 2013 resignation, said of his decision.

Named after a weekly Catholic newspaper, the goal of the “Tagespost Foundation for Catholic Journalism” is to raise the equivalent of about $500,000 in 2020 to invest in training young journalists and to support a variety of projects, including research into issues of biomedical ethics, in Germany.

Given that the country’s tax-rich dioceses and powerful bishops’ conference are already financing a wide array of media projects and news outlets that provide training, including a dedicated Catholic journalism school based in Munich, the initiative by the pope emeritus was recognized by both supporters and critics as a strategic move to bolster orthodox Catholic reporting independent of episcopal and other influences.
 
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« Reply #345 on: January 07, 2020, 09:54:49 AM »

https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2020/01/busy-benedict-xvi-offers-new-peek-into-physical-condition-daily-routine/

Busy Benedict XVI offers new peek into physical condition, daily routine
Elise Harris  Jan 7, 2020

ROME - As the anniversary of Benedict XVI’s historic resignation approaches, the retired pontiff has given new, brief comments to a Bavarian television station, offering a peek into what his life and condition are like seven years later.

Published on Bavarian television network BR24 Jan. 3, the 30-minute segment was conducted by German journalist Tassilo Forchheimer, who paints a picture of Benedict’s daily life, his studio, and his physical condition.

Benedict, who has generally kept a low-profile since he stepped down in 2013, was described by Forchheimer as having a “weak voice” and walking with “great difficulty,” always accompanied by his personal secretary, German Archbishop Georg Gänswein.

At one point, Forchheimer said Benedict told him that “I used to have a great voice, but now it doesn’t work.”

Gänswein himself described Benedict as having “a clear mind,” as many others who have met him have said, but “he has already lost a lot of his physical strength.”

Yet despite the toll that age has taken, Benedict, who uses a walker and who will turn 93 in April, was said to keep a “strict” schedule, beginning with Mass each morning with Gänswein and the consecrated women who attend to him in a small chapel inside the Vatican’s Mater Ecclesiae monastery, where he lives.
 
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« Reply #346 on: January 28, 2020, 08:55:13 PM »

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cdl-sarah-denounces-brutal-attacks-on-benedict-over-book-defending-priestly-celibacy

Cdl Sarah denounces ‘brutal’ attacks on Benedict over book defending priestly celibacy
Mon Jan 27, 2020 - 5:07 pm EST
By Dorothy Cummings McLean

ROME, January 27, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Robert Sarah has condemned the “brutality” and the “indecency” of attacks made on Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI when news of their co-authored book defending priestly celibacy emerged.

Speaking to Italian newspaper Il Foglio, which published an interview with the Guinean cardinal on January 25, Sarah said there has been “a lot of talk about utterly ridiculous aspects secondary” to the themes of the book.

“Absurd controversies, vulgar lies, and horrible humiliations have followed one another against Benedict XVI and me,” the cardinal continued.

However, it is the attacks on the former that have wounded Sarah the most.

“What breaks my heart and hurts me deeply is the brutality, the irreverence, the lack of consideration and the indecency with which Benedict XVI has been treated,” he said.
Cardinal Sarah and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI are the co-authors of a book on challenges to the priesthood today. Entitled From the Depths of Our Hearts: Priesthood, Celibacy, and the Crisis of the Catholic Church in English, the Italian version of the book will appear in bookstores on January 30, published by Cantagalli.
 
https://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/pope-emeritus-benedict-and-cardinal-sarah-collaborate
Jan. 12, 2020
Pope Benedict Co-Authors New Book With Cardinal Sarah on the Priesthood

The book, entitled From the Depths of Our Heart, addresses the ‘dark time’ the Catholic priesthood is enduring because of Church scandals and ‘the constant questioning of their consecrated celibacy.’
Edward Pentin

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2020-01/a-contribution-on-priestly-celibacy-in-filial-obedience-to-pope.html
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A contribution on priestly celibacy in filial obedience to the Pope
13 January 2020, 13:27
A book by the Pope emeritus and the Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship addresses a theme on which Pope Francis has expressed himself several times.
Andrea Tornielli

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2020-01/book-pope-emeritus-priestly-celibacy-statement-ganswein.html
The book on priestly celibacy: a clarification by Archbishop Gänswein
14 January 2020, 14:08

https://religionnews.com/2020/01/14/statement-from-ignatius-press-on-from-the-depths-of-our-hearts/
Statement from Ignatius Press on From the Depths of Our Hearts
January 14, 2020
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« Reply #347 on: February 05, 2020, 08:46:14 PM »

Archbishop Georg Gänswein, private secretary to pope emeritus Benedict XVI

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https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/vatican-gnswein-has-not-taken-leave-as-head-of-papal-household-21698
Vatican has 'no information' on Gänswein leave of absence report
By Hannah Brockhaus

Vatican City, Feb 5, 2020 / 08:10 am (CNA).- After a German Catholic weekly reported that Archbishop Georg Gänswein was asked to take a leave of absence from his position as head of the papal household, the Vatican has said it cannot confirm the report, and the archbishop is still in his job.

Die Tagespost reported Feb. 5 that the German archbishop had recently been asked by Pope Francis to "focus on his role as private secretary to pope emeritus Benedict XVI."

A Vatican source told CNA that the Die Tagepost report was on the mark. Gänswein has been requested to “stay away from his office [as prefect of the papal household] indefinitely,” the source said.

But the Holy See press office told CNA Wednesday that it has "no information" regarding Ganswein being on a leave of absence from the prefecture.

Regarding the archbishop's absence from papal audiences in recent weeks, the press office stated "it is due to an ordinary redistribution of the various commitments and duties of the Prefect of the Papal Household, who, as you know, is also the personal secretary of the Pope emeritus."
 
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-pope-francis-puts-archbishop-gaenswein-on-leave-report-says
Pope Francis puts Archbishop Gänswein on leave: report
German newspaper Die Tagespost reports that Pope Benedict's secretary has been placed on leave after the controversy over the celibacy book.
Wed Feb 5, 2020 - 6:50 am EST

https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/vatican-confirms-redistribution-duties-archbishop-g-nswein
Vatican confirms 'redistribution' of duties for Archbishop Gänswein
Feb 5, 2020
by Joshua J. McElwee

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« Reply #348 on: February 06, 2020, 06:27:22 PM »

Archbishop Georg Gänswein, private secretary to pope emeritus Benedict XVI

https://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/solving-the-archbishop-gaenswein-suspension-puzzle
Feb. 6, 2020
Solving the Archbishop Gänswein Suspension Puzzle
Edward Pentin
 
For the past two weeks, the archbishop has not been seen assisting Pope Francis at his audiences.

Archbishop Gänswein, although quite shocked by the decision, inside sources say, and curious to know how the job of prefect would be managed without him, agreed to the instruction.

The Pope also later refused to reinstate him, saying it would be better if he continued assisting the Pope Emeritus for the time being, and that the role of prefect would continue to be carried out in his absence by Msgr. Leonardo Sapienza, regent of the Pontifical Household.

The Vatican’s statement is therefore partially correct in the sense that Archbishop Gänswein has not been given total leave from his duties as he continues to assist Benedict and there is still a possibility he could return as prefect.

But at the moment he appears to have been given an indefinite leave from the latter, which would appear to amount to more than just an “ordinary redistribution of the various commitments and duties.”
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« Reply #349 on: February 08, 2020, 06:36:04 PM »

Update:  the Benedict XVI-Cardinal Sarah book, From the Depths of Our Hearts: Priesthood, Celibacy and the Crisis of the Catholic Churc

https://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/cardinal-sarah-the-priesthood-today-is-in-mortal-danger
Feb. 8, 2020
Cardinal Sarah: The Priesthood Today ‘Is in Mortal Danger’

In an exclusive English-language interview, the African cardinal discusses his new book, the status of the Catholic priesthood, and addresses those who say he opposes Pope Francis.
Edward Pentin

VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Robert Sarah has made a further impassioned plea not to weaken the mandatory celibacy rule for priests, saying it would be a catastrophe that would amount to an “attack on the Church and her mystery.”

In an exclusive Feb. 7 interview with the Register in advance of the publication later this month of the English edition of From the Depths of Our Hearts: Priesthood, Celibacy and the Crisis of the Catholic Church, his new book on the priesthood with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the Guinean cardinal explains why he and Benedict wrote the book — namely to warn that separating celibacy from the priesthood, even just as an exception, would remove the priest’s imitation of Christ as spouse of the Church and turn her into a “mere human institution.”

And, in advance of next Wednesday’s release of Pope Francis’ post-apostolic exhortation on the Pan-Amazon synod, Cardinal Sarah, the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, also explains how the exception proposed at the synod is different to previous exceptions and the situation with the Eastern Churches, and he notes that even when there were married priests in the early Church, they lived chaste lives.
 
But they wanted to muzzle Benedict XVI. I must confess my revolt at the slander, violence and rudeness to which he has been subjected. Benedict XVI wanted to speak to the world, but they tried to discredit his words. I know that he takes on everything that is written in this book with determination, and I know that he is delighted with its publication. He wanted to write and publicly express this joy, but they would like to prevent him from expressing it. But to recount in detail, hour by hour, these maneuvers is useless. I prefer not to dwell on these sordid machinations, for which those responsible will one day give an account before God.
 
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« Reply #350 on: March 07, 2020, 11:23:31 AM »

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https://edwardpentin.co.uk/debate-intensifies-over-benedict-xvis-resignation-and-role-as-pope-emeritus/

Debate Intensifies Over Benedict XVI’s Resignation and Role as Pope Emeritus
07/03/2020 Edward Pentin

VATICAN CITY — Seven years have passed since Benedict XVI’s resignation but discussion over the precise role of a “Pope Emeritus” and the permitted extent of his influence has not only continued but increased in intensity.

Polemics over this contentious issue came to a head in January after Benedict XVI’s unexpected intervention a month before the release of Pope Francis’ post-synodal apostolic exhortation, Querida Amazonia.

The Pope Emeritus and Cardinal Robert Sarah had written essays on the nature of the priesthood in the book From the Depths of Our Hearts: Priesthood, Celibacy and the Crisis of the Catholic Church, strongly affirming mandatory priestly celibacy in the Latin Church.
 
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« Reply #351 on: March 30, 2020, 05:51:03 PM »

https://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/coronavirus-latest-italys-bishops-call-for-all-churches-to-be-closed
 
Mar. 30, 2020
Coronavirus Latest From Rome: Benedict XVI and His Staff Are Well
Latest updates from the Eternal City in lockdown since March 10.
Edward Pentin
UPDATES (Rome time)
 
March 30, 9.15pm

The Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and all those living at his residence in the Vatican Gardens are well, in good spirits, and have full trust in the Lord, a source very close to the residence has told the Register.

The source said all those at the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery are following closely the reported guidelines on account of the coronavirus pandemic, and living as if in a “lockdown cloister” but they had not lost their “calm and good spirits and have full trust in the Lord.”
 
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« Reply #352 on: May 04, 2020, 11:09:52 AM »

"...authoritative biography, titled Benedikt XVI: Ein Leben (in German) and Benedict XVI The Biography: Volume One (in English) is scheduled for release in German May 4 and in English Nov. 17."

https://zenit.org/articles/benedict-xvi-reiterates-reasons-he-always-stated-for-resignation-in-new-interview-with-peter-seewald/
Benedict XVI Reiterates Reasons He Always Stated for Resignation in New Interview with Peter Seewald
Pope Emeritus Vehemently Denies Speculation Otherwise
May 04, 2020 14:17  Deborah Castellano Lubov

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has vehemently denied theories suggesting that there were other reasons he resigned as Successor of Peter, other than what he has explicitly said, and said repeatedly.

The German Pontiff was the first Pope to abdicate the role in nearly 600 years, when Gregory XII did so in 1415. And Benedict was the first one to resign voluntarily since Celestine V did so 719 years in 1294.

In Latin, on Feb. 11, 2013, the 85-year-old Pontiff surprised the world, after having led the universal Church for nearly 8 years, announced he would be resigning. The Sede Vacante officially went into effect at 8 pm Rome time on Feb. 28.

The Pope Emeritus’ comments were from an interview he granted German author, Peter Seewald, with whom he has done various ‘interview-books,’ if you will, including Light of the World, during his pontificate, and The Last Testament, afterward.

This interview appears within Seewald’s most recent work, which is an extensive biography of Ratzinger, which had been gifted to the Pope Emeritus for his 93rd birthday on April 16th.

In German on the Katolisch.de website, there are some excerpts from the interview, in which Benedict retains that his frail health remains why he stepped down.
 
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« Reply #353 on: May 04, 2020, 11:15:09 AM »

"...authoritative biography, titled Benedikt XVI: Ein Leben (in German) and Benedict XVI The Biography: Volume One (in English) is scheduled for release in German May 4 and in English Nov. 17."

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-benedict-links-dominance-of-homosexual-marriage...abortion-to-spiritual-power-of-anti-Christ
Pope Benedict links dominance of ‘homosexual marriage…abortion’ to spiritual power of ‘Anti-Christ’
Fri May 1, 2020 - 6:42 pm EST

May 1, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI linked the dominance of “homosexual marriage” and “abortion” in the world — such that it brooks no dissent without fear of punishment — to the “spiritual power of the Anti-Christ” in a new biography.

“One hundred years ago,” Benedict stated in the biography by Peter Seewald, “everybody would have considered it to be absurd to speak of a homosexual marriage. Today, one is being excommunicated by society if one opposes it.” The same applies to “abortion and to the creation of human beings in the laboratory,” Benedict added.

“Modern society is in the middle of formulating an anti-Christian creed, and if one opposes it, one is being punished by society with excommunication,” he went on to say. “The fear of this spiritual power of the Anti-Christ is then only more than natural, and it really needs the help of prayers on the part of an entire diocese and of the Universal Church in order to resist it.”
 
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« Reply #354 on: May 04, 2020, 11:26:41 AM »

"...authoritative biography, titled Benedikt XVI: Ein Leben (in German) and Benedict XVI The Biography: Volume One (in English) is scheduled for release in German May 4 and in English Nov. 17." https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-benedict-links-dominance-of-homosexual-marriage...abortion-to-spiritual-power-of-anti-Christ

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/pope-benedicts-biographer-leftist-cardinal-tried-to-stop-ratzingers-2005-papal-election
Pope Benedict’s biographer: Leftist cardinal tried to stop Ratzinger’s 2005 papal election
It has its own significance that a close collaborator of Pope Benedict XVI has now described the activities of the Sankt Gallen Group.
Fri May 1, 2020 - 2:24 pm EST

May 1, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Peter Seewald – a convert to Catholicism who co-authored several books with Pope Benedict XVI – is about to publish an authoritative more than 1,000-page long biography of the Pope emeritus. To be released on May 4, it recounts the 2005 election of then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, at which Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, the head of the so-called “Sankt Gallen Group,” tried to forestall the election of Ratzinger as new Pope. While some of this has been known before, it comes now from someone close to Pope Benedict.

LifeSite published last year a book review of The Election of Pope Francis, Gerald O'Connell's detailed history of the 2013 conclave that elected Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis. In it, some details were presented regarding the 2005 conclave, including the fact that the progressivist Sankt Gallen Group already then supported the election of Bergoglio. Martini was the head of this group, to which also belonged Cardinals Godfried Danneels, Walter Kasper, Karl Lehmann, and Cormac Murphy-O’Connor. Seewald now adds his own contribution to this important part of Church history. LifeSite has received a review copy of this new book; the German newspaper Tagespost already pre-published this specific chapter on the 2005 conclave.
 
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« Reply #355 on: May 07, 2020, 05:38:53 PM »

"...authoritative biography, titled Benedikt XVI: Ein Leben (in German) and Benedict XVI The Biography: Volume One (in English) is scheduled for release in German May 4 and in English Nov. 17." https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-benedict-links-dominance-of-homosexual-marriage...abortion-to-spiritual-power-of-anti-Christ

https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2020/05/in-new-biography-pope-benedict-says-world-threatened-by-humanism/
In new biography, Pope Benedict says world threatened by humanism
Catholic News Service  May 4, 2020

MUNICH - In a newly published biography, Retired Pope Benedict XVI said the Catholic Church is threatened by a “worldwide dictatorship of seemingly humanist ideologies.” He cited same-sex marriage, abortion and the “creation of humans in the laboratory” as examples.
 
In the interview, which had not been published before, the former pope said he had written a spiritual testament. This will presumably not be revealed until after his death, KNA reported. The pope did not comment on its contents.

He also explained the reasons for his resignation as pope in 2013. He denied that it was because of corruption in the Vatican or the “Vatileaks” scandal. Instead, he said it had become increasingly clear to him that, in addition to possible dementia, “other forms of insufficient ability to hold office properly are also possible.”

In this context, Pope Benedict revealed that he, like Sts. Paul VI and John Paul II, had signed a conditional declaration of resignation “in the event of illness that rendered the proper performance of duties impossible.” He did this “relatively early” in his pontificate, he told Seewald.
 
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« Reply #356 on: May 15, 2020, 06:33:42 PM »

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2020-05/pope-emeritus-benedict-xvi-mercy-jpii-birth-centenary.html

The Pope emeritus’ words on mercy in Saint John Paul II
15 May 2020, 11:30

Pope emeritus Benedict XVI sends a letter to the Bishops of Poland for the birth centenary of his predecessor, Pope St. John Paul II.
By Vatican News

"The whole of the Pope’s life was centered on subjectively assimilating the objective center of the Christian faith – the teaching of salvation – and allowing others to accept it.”
Pope emeritus Benedict XVI wrote those words in a letter for the centenary of the birth of Saint John Paul II.
 
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/benedict-xvi-hails-john-paul-ii-as-liberating-restorer-of-church-26535
Benedict XVI hails John Paul II as ‘liberating restorer’ of Church

CNA Staff, May 15, 2020 / 03:00 am MT (CNA).- John Paul II was a “liberating restorer of the Church” in the turbulent years after the Second Vatican Council, Benedict XVI has said in a letter marking the 100th anniversary of the saint’s birth.

In a message to Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz, John Paul II’s personal secretary, the Pope emeritus said that the Polish pope had faced “an almost impossible task” when John Paul was elected to the papacy in 1978.
 
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/full-text-benedict-xvis-letter-marking-st-john-paul-iis-birth-centenary-20198
Full text: Benedict XVI's letter marking St. John Paul II's birth centenary

Vatican City, May 15, 2020 / 03:10 am MT (CNA).- Here is the full text of Pope emeritus Benedict XVI's letter marking the centenary of the birth of St. John Paul II. The English translation of this letter, dated May 4, was released May 15 by the Polish bishops' conference:

100 years ago, on May 18th, Pope John Paul II was born in the small Polish town of Wadowice.
 
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« Reply #357 on: May 28, 2020, 07:19:31 PM »

https://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/peter-seewalds-spiritual-and-historical-journey-with-the-pope-emeritus

May. 28, 2020
Peter Seewald’s ‘Spiritual and Historical Journey’ With the Pope Emeritus
The German journalist discusses Benedict XVI: The Biography
Edward Pentin

In writing his definitive and monumental new work on Benedict XVI, biographer Peter Seewald discovered “countless” new elements to the pope emeritus’ life and character, including that his role in the Second Vatican Council was “not marginal but enormously significant.”

In this May 21 email interview with the Register, Seewald explains how the book, Benedict XVI: The Biography — running 1,184 pages in the German version  — juxtaposes Joseph Ratzinger’s life and teaching with the dramatic and stirring events of the 20th century.

He also explains the genesis of the book, as well as Benedict’s relationship with Francis, the advice Benedict offers for dealing with the crisis of faith in the Church and the world today, and why Benedict decided to write a spiritual testament to be published after his death. Seewald also provides an update on how Benedict is faring during this time of pandemic.

The English edition of the first volume of Benedict XVI: The Biography will be published in November by Bloomsbury Continuum.
 
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« Reply #358 on: June 18, 2020, 05:01:14 PM »

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2020-06/benedict-xvi-visits-germany-brother-sick-ratzinger.html

Benedict XVI visits his sick brother in Germany
18 June 2020, 15:13

Pope emeritus Benedict XVI, traveled to Regensburg today to be alongside his brother Georg, accompanied by Archbishop Gänswein, the vice commander of the Vatican Gendarmerie, and a small group of health care professionals and collaborators.

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By Alessandro de Carolis

Pope emeritus Benedict left the quiet of the Mater Ecclesiae monastery in the Vatican for a visit to Germany to be close to his brother, Georg. He is 96 and in poor health. The emeritus pontiff traveled Thursday morning accompanied by his personal secretary Archbishop Georg Gänswein; his doctor and his nurse; a collaborator from the Memores Domini community; and the vice commander of the Vatican Gendarmerie.

A statement from the Diocese of Regensburg indicated that Benedict arrived in Munich at 11:45. He was greeted by Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer, who accompanied him to Regensberg, where he will reside at the diocesan seminary. The statement from the diocese asked the faithful to respect the wishes of the two brothers, who requested that the "deeply personal meeting remain private." Hence no public appearances are anticipated.

According to Matteo Bruni, the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Benedict will remain in Germany for “as long as necessary."
 
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/benedict-xvi-visits-his-ailing-brother-in-germany-92610
Benedict XVI visits his ailing brother in Germany

https://zenit.org/articles/just-in-benedict-xvi-leaves-vatican-to-visit-sick-brother-in-regensburg-2/
JUST IN: Benedict XVI Leaves Vatican to Visit Sick Brother in Regensburg
Matteo Bruni Confirms to ZENIT English
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https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/13066/emeritus-pope-visits-seriously-ill-brother-in-regensburg

18 June 2020, The Tablet
Emeritus Pope visits seriously ill brother in Regensburg
by Christa Pongratz-Lippitt

Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI has left the Vatican for the first time since he resigned in order to visit his seriously ill brother in Regensburg

Benedict XVI, 93, who stood down in 2013, decided to visit his brother Georg, 96, in Bavaria at short notice after consulting with Pope Francis.

Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni told the German press agency dpa that the emeritus Pope had left the Vatican by plane this morning on a purely private visit. He stay in Regensburg “as long as necessary”.
 

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8436251/Emeritus-Pope-Benedict-Germany-brother.html
Retired Pope Benedict is seen on rare trip out of the Vatican as he visits his ailing 96-year-old brother in his native Germany
Published: 09:26 EDT, 18 June 2020 | Updated: 18:01 EDT, 18 June 2020
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