Posted on 10/21/2015 8:15:52 AM PDT by marshmallow
Kai Diekmann, Editor-in-chief of Bild Zeitung, talks about his visit to Benedict XVI: “Bright-eyed, smiley, no signs of weariness
A small reception hall, a wooden staircase that leads up to the first floor. The sitting room is welcoming and bright, there is a white leather sofa and a simple seat. A book case that reaches the ceiling, a flat-screen TV with a DVD player and some religious icons on the walls. A coffee table and a piano with a black-and-white photo of his brother Georg.
The story Kai Diekmann, Editor-in-chief of Bild Zeitung, wishes to share with his readers is very familiar; “A meeting with our Pope Benedict XVI, two years after his resignation”. That adjective “our” is impossible not to notice. It resonates a sense of pride almost, that dates back to that title published ten years ago: it was 20 April 2005, the day after Cardinal Ratzinger was elected leader of the Catholic Church, and Germany’s biggest newspaper appeared on newsstands with a picture of Benedict XVI appearing on the central balcony of St Peter's Basilica on the front page, along with the title “Wir sind Papst” (We are Pope). The first German Pope had been elected after more than 500 years.
On 15 October he met 88-year-old Benedict XVI, two years after his resignation: “He is there on the doorstep, our Pope. Bright-eyed, smiley, leaning on a Zimmer frame. He is wearing a white cassock and a simple pair of brown sandals on his feet.”
“It’s great to be here!” Ratzinger is in good spirits, wide-awake, no signs of weariness. He sits on the sofa: the weariness that was visible when he announced his resignation before a gathering of cardinals (the photographs taken by Daniel Biskup which illustrated the article clearly showed this) seems miles away.
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It’s a fine pickle His Holiness put The Church in, just so he could enjoy his golden years.
That’s good. Perhaps he can discuss with God the errant ways
Of the current administration of the Catholic Church.
I am not, nor do I ever intend to become Catholic. That being said, if I was the Pope, or for that matter a priest, or while we’re at it even a Protestant preacher, I would be terrified of doing or saying something that would lead my parishioners astray, and then have to answer to that to our Lord. I get scared enough of saying the wrong thing when answering my kid’s questions.
He was pushed out.
**Benedict XVI: “I Feel That I Am in Even Closer Communion with God”**
Then please ask God to turn Francis’ heart toward traditional marriage and traditional families as the church has always promulgated.
Thank you, Pope Benedict XVI Emeritus
It only took 5 posts to state the obvious. It’s made even more obvious by “hope and change” being inflicted by the current Pope.
A “Zimmer frame” is a walker.
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