Posted on 08/26/2022 6:13:19 PM PDT by marshmallow
Denver Newsroom, Aug 24, 2022 / 14:00 pm Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican Press Office from 2006 to 2016, said that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is ready for “the definitive encounter” with God.
The Jesuit priest made the observation in an interview with Avvenire, the newspaper of the Italian bishops, on the occasion of his upcoming 80th birthday, which he will celebrate on Aug. 29.
In the interview, published Aug. 22, the priest, who was also provincial superior of the Italian Jesuits and director of the Vatican Television Center, recalled that he was able to accompany Benedict XVI “for almost his entire pontificate from 2006 until his resignation from the Petrine ministry in February of 2013.”
Lombardi stressed that Benedict XVI “is a scholarly man” and would define him as “a pope theologian with very clear ideas.”
The Jesuit priest also said a great virtue of the pope emeritus is “humility. In the conversations with me he always spoke in Italian and not in German,” a language Lombardi learned when he studied theology in Frankfurt, where he was ordained in 1972.
He only sometimes spoke in German, when he spoke with his secretary Archbishop Georg Gänswein, and, Lombardi said, “he had the courtesy to repeat the same things in Italian” although it was not necessary.
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I wonder who his Lord is.
Actually I dont
Not really a surprise if it’s true, but kind of inappropriate for a non physician to blurt something like that out in a public setting.
Benedict XVI was the last real Pope. The Cardinals forced him out and installed Frances, the Marxist usurper.
When the meeting takes place the Lord’s first words might be, “ Why did you resign?”
That means they will need to elect a new Pope.
Bergoglio is an imposter.
He didn’t resign. He was forced out so they could install someone who would destroy the church from within.
“I wonder who his Lord is.
Actually I dont”
You’re confused. This is about Benedict, not Francis.
Agree
There’s the little matter of acknowledging the insufficiency of his “resignation”, still left to do, before he’ll be free to shuffle off this mortal coil.
“Benedict XVI was the last real Pope. The Cardinals forced him out and installed Frances, the Marxist usurper.”
He resigned. He’s a quitter.
He left us when we needed him most
Boy is he going to be in for a surprise.
He didn’t resign. He was forced out so they could install someone who would destroy the church from within.
Agree.
There are no real popes. They all blasphemy God. They are dragging millions down to hell with them
Does he feel he is close to dying?
“They all blasphemy God.”
You mean they “blaspheme” not “blasphemy” God, don’t you? Not that I agree with you.
I don't wonder, either. But just to clarify, we're talking about Benedict XVI ... not frankie bergoglio.
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