Month: January 2023

The Journal got it right. They agree with me! Pope Benedict – Great man, great mind Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI died Saturday at age 95 at the monastery inside the Vatican where he’d been living since he resigned in 2013—the first pope to resign in nearly 600 years. His reason for stepping down was straightforward: … Read more

As the Bishop says, "He was no lightweight". And here's a post I put up yesterday. Pope Benedict – Great man, great mind  

Remarkable. An academic, a theologian participant  at Vatican II, a Cardinal, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (responsible for explaining and upholding Catholic teaching) from 1981 – 2005. Of course a chief collaborator with Pope Saint John Paul II.  And then Pope himself from 2005 until his resignation for health … Read more