Posted on 04/16/2022 6:02:22 PM PDT by marshmallow
Pope Francis visited Benedict XVI on Wednesday, ahead of the Pope emeritus’ 95th birthday.
The Holy See press office said that the pope went to the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery, the retired German pope’s residence in Vatican City, shortly after 6 p.m. local time on April 13.
Benedict XVI will celebrate his 95th birthday on April 16, Holy Saturday. He was born in 1927, also on Holy Saturday, in Marktl, Bavaria. He led the Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013, when he became the first pope in almost 600 years to resign.
“After a brief and affectionate conversation, and after praying together, Pope Francis returned to Casa Santa Marta [his residence],” the press office said.
How do these two guys not meet every morning in the Vatican chow line?
Just rubbing it in.
“The gates of hell”
Never heard an official pronouncment of the title "pope emeritus."
Given Ratzinger's argument of the separation of "munus" from "minsterium," he and Bergoglio can only be two popes, or one pope split between them.
As best I get it, Francis does not hold the "munus" because it was not renounced by Benedict, but only holds the "ministerium."
https://www.fromrome.info/2019/10/31/munus-and-ministerium-a-canonical-study/
Quite an interesting problem which has not been unraveled, and all the press in the world does is paper it over.
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