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An interesting interview with Spanish news.
At the beginning of his pontificate in 2013 when Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone was still Secretary of State, Pope Francis handed in a resignation letter “in case of impediment due to health reasons.” Revealing this decision, which Pope Paul VI had also taken during his time, Pope Francis spoke about this matter in a wide-ranging interview granted to the Spanish daily ABC. The full interview appeared on Sunday with previews posted a day earlier.
The Pope met with the newspaper’s editor, Julián Quirós, and its Vatican correspondent, Javier Martínez-Brocal, when he addressed numerous topics on current events regarding the life of the Church and the world.
The conversations touched on the war in Ukraine, where the Pope said he does not see “a short-term end to it since it is a world war,” the cases of abuse by clergy, the role of women in the Roman Curia (where he says “within two years a woman will head a Dicastery”), Benedict XVI’s 2013 resignation, and his own possible resignation.
He also revealed his regard for Pope Em. BXVI.
Speaking on the relationship with his predecessor Benedict XVI, Pope Francis described him as “a saint” and “a man of great spiritual life”, revealing that he visits with him often and always feels “edified” by his transparent gaze. "He has a good sense of humour, he is lucid, very alive, he speaks softly but follows the conversation. I admire his lucidity. He is a great man’. Pope Francis, on the other hand, says he has no intention of defining the juridical status of Pope emeritus: “I have the feeling that the Holy Spirit does not have interest that I deal with these matters.”
At the beginning of his pontificate in 2013 when Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone was still Secretary of State, Pope Francis handed in a resignation letter “in case of impediment due to health reasons.” Revealing this decision, which Pope Paul VI had also taken during his time, Pope Francis spoke about this matter in a wide-ranging interview granted to the Spanish daily ABC. The full interview appeared on Sunday with previews posted a day earlier.
The Pope met with the newspaper’s editor, Julián Quirós, and its Vatican correspondent, Javier Martínez-Brocal, when he addressed numerous topics on current events regarding the life of the Church and the world.
The conversations touched on the war in Ukraine, where the Pope said he does not see “a short-term end to it since it is a world war,” the cases of abuse by clergy, the role of women in the Roman Curia (where he says “within two years a woman will head a Dicastery”), Benedict XVI’s 2013 resignation, and his own possible resignation.
He also revealed his regard for Pope Em. BXVI.
Speaking on the relationship with his predecessor Benedict XVI, Pope Francis described him as “a saint” and “a man of great spiritual life”, revealing that he visits with him often and always feels “edified” by his transparent gaze. "He has a good sense of humour, he is lucid, very alive, he speaks softly but follows the conversation. I admire his lucidity. He is a great man’. Pope Francis, on the other hand, says he has no intention of defining the juridical status of Pope emeritus: “I have the feeling that the Holy Spirit does not have interest that I deal with these matters.”