This view, if correct, reinforces the idea that His Holiness abdicated in pursuance of his plan to carry on the movement toward firmness in Tradition through generations to come, — and not because his goals were defeated by the modernizers.
My hunch is that he is stepping down because he has Alzheimer’s. I read that he will discontinue writing after he steps down. Why would he do that when he will have so much time on his hands? It sounds to me as if he is about at the same stage of Alzheimer’s as was Ronald Reagan when he wrote his letter announcing he had the disease. Just a hunch.
I have a dumb question.He is Pope until the new Pope is named right?