Pope Benedict is suddenly quite vocal and expressive on the current state of the world. This, after many years of near silence. I thought either he was too ill to make public statements, or church protocol forbade him to speak with any frequency.
I’m very happy to have Pope Benedict speaking up.
I don’t know if Pope Francis shares my enthusiasm for this recent change, or if he has any choice in the matter.
Something’s going on there.
I still refuse to believe that Benedict resigned on his own volition.
Maybe someone pointed out to him that he is still a Bishop, and as such continues to participate in the magisterium, not the way that Pope Francis does or Pope Liberius or Pope Honorius, or Pope Pius XII did (at least one of these is not like the others) did, but in the way that, say, St. Augustine and St. John Chrysostom did.
I would imagine Antipope Bergoglio is profoundly displeased by this turn of events.