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Pope Benedict has ‘no regrets’ about resigning

byZenit
15 February 2014
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Pope Benedict greets the crowd as he begins a general audience in Paul VI hall with prefect of the papal household and the pope’s personal secretary Archbishop Georg Ganswein watching on. Photo: CNS/L’Ossevatore Romano via Reuters

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Pope Benedict greets the crowd as he begins a general audience in Paul VI hall with prefect of the papal household and the pope’s personal secretary Archbishop Georg Ganswein watching on. Photo: CNS/L’Ossevatore Romano via Reuters
Pope Benedict greets the crowd as he begins a general audience in Paul VI hall with prefect of the papal household and the pope’s personal secretary Archbishop Georg Ganswein watching on. Photo: CNS/L’Ossevatore Romano via Reuters

POPE Emeritus Benedict XVI has no regrets about his resignation which he announced a year ago on February 11, and he is at peace with himself.

This is according to his personal secretary Archbishop Georg Ganswein.

Pope Benedict XVI was “at peace with himself and I think he is even at peace with the Lord”, said the archbishop who also serves as prefect of the Pontifical Household under Pope Francis.

Pope Benedict was the first pontiff to resign in 600 years, citing the strains of the papacy and frailty due to age.

Working together: Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI greets Pope Francis in Vatican City. Photo: CNS/Paul Haring
Working together: Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI greets Pope Francis in Vatican City. Photo: CNS/Paul Haring

He stepped down on February 28, 2013.

Asked if he held resentment against critics who the Vatican says misunderstood him, Archbishop Ganswein said: “No. It’s clear that humanly speaking, many times, it is painful to see that what is written about someone does not correspond concretely to what was done.

“But the measure of one’s work, of one’s way of doing things, is not what the mass media write but what is just before God and before conscience.

“I am certain, indeed convinced, that history will offer a judgment that will be different than what one often read in the last years of his pontificate.”

Archbishop Ganswein said Pope Benedict, by living, praying and studying in a former convent in Vatican City, “is far from the world but he is present in the Church”.

“His mission now, as he once said, is to help the Church and his successor, Pope Francis, through prayer. This is his first and most important task,” he said.

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On his relationship with Pope Francis, he said: “From the very start there was good contact between them and this good beginning developed and matured.

“They write to each other, they telephone each other, they talk to each other, they extend invitations to each other.”

Archbishop Ganswein said Pope Benedict spent his time studying, reading, handling correspondence, receiving visitors, playing the piano and praying while taking walks in the Vatican City gardens.

“He is well but certainly he is a person who carries the weight of his years,” he said.

“So, he is a man who is physically old but his spirit is very vivacious and very clear.”

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