What do you like the most about Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

[otjm]

His intelligence, humility, and the multitude of writings.

That he is the world’s greatest living theologian.

And that.

 

[otjm]

He didn’t want to be Pope; in fact he tried to retire and go back to writing during John Paul 2’s reign.

 

[Emeraldlady]

I liked that he worked with the Anglcans and Episcopalians and created the
Anglican use Mass.

I was happy and surprised that he did that radical but amazing thing so seamlessly. It will no doubt be an historic memory for the Church.

 

[dochawk]

If Benedict wanted to be Pope, he should not have retired.

He very much did not want to be pope, and prayed fervently to not be chosen.

Even then, once chosen, he didn’t expect to live nearly as long as he did.

At the time he stepped down, his life expectancy was rather short (certainly not a year), and he also wanted to spare the Church the possibility of a non-functional and non-removable pope.

You are entitled to you opinion and I say more power to you. I just do not agree.

Yet one of the greatest minds and greatest theologians ever to occupy Peter’s chair quite clearly disagrees with you. And I’ll weigh his opinion far more heavily than that of anyone on this forum . . .

 

[jack63]

I’m very much a fan of Pope Emeritus Benedict. I always liked this story about his ordination…

Ratzinger recalled: “at the moment the elderly Archbishop laid his hands on me, a little bird – perhaps a lark – flew up from the altar in the high cathedral and trilled a little joyful song.”

It’s found in the Wikipedia entry with a reference to his writings about this incident below…

Pope Benedict XVI - Wikipedia

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