Death of Pope Benedict XVI

Gael23

Poep Benedict met the good lord at 9:34 this morning

branie2

May he rest in peace

Manach

Requiescat in pace.

elperello

RIP

Wanderer78

rip benny

vimalandrew

I am so sad that such a great man who could have transformed the world has died without achieving anything. And I am responsible for his resignation. I am an intellectual person and some of the articles I published in the Internet caused his resignation. May the great pope rest in peace.

Thinkingaboutit

May Pope Benedict Rest In Peace and Rise In Glory. It is was his genius to try discard the futile hermeneutic of rupture concerning V2 and replace it with something more fruitful, a hermeneutic of continuity and mutual enrichment

Sadly the Argentine Pope decided after a few years in Office to resurrect the old rancour and try deprive the faithful of the Mass of Ages. Thankfully this effort has not succeeded.

One of the Benedict's greatest achievements, which actually survived an initial attempt by his successor to stymie them (as part of trying to reinstate Mauro Inzoli then appealing his conviction for sexual abuse), was a definite and clear canonical process to remove and dismiss those men who besmirch the priestly office with abuse of children, adults or other grave crimes. In connection with this, one very unclear case of dealing with an accused priest from his time as bishop in Germany was brought up. The comparison of one possible case with the endless array under Pope Francis before and during his Pontificate is instructive.

Pope Benedict probably saw that on becoming Pope, and despite all he did, there remaining so much moral depravity, and someone with more energy was needed. It is unlikely Benedict envisaged the bosom friend of Julio César Grassi as that man, but despite the volumes of attacks on the victims commissioned by the Abp of Buenos Aires, now Pope Francis, Grassi got 15 years for his crimes.

Still despite the resignation, Pope Benedict did so much good, good which hasn't been undone.

The official bio is very scant for his Papacy, as though Benedict was Pope for a few days, like JP1.

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2022-12/pope-emeritus-benedict-xvi-official-biography.html

Sorolla

i think history will be kind to him.

In the fullness of time it will become clear that his predecessor JP2 was not as saintly as the world was lead to believe.

Pope Benedict had the misfortune of becoming Pope as an old man (78years old).

i do believe with his intellect and deep theological background he would have been a great pope if he got the job instead of JP2 back in 1978

BingCrosbee

May he RIP. JP 2 never did it for me.

Larbre34

History won't be kind to him.

He was a technocrat, a cold theologian, an intractable arch-conservative and an exclusionary figure.

Bring the Pope, the Bishop of Rome and having the justifiably earned nickname 'God's Rottweiler' are a very poor fit.

The Princes of the Church chose him because he was powerful, not because God inspired them.

growleaves

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120051152#Comment_120051152

Anyone can come up with an unflattering nickname for someone.