The former personal secretary for Pope Benedict XVI said the Traditional Latin Mass can't be 'valid and valuable yesterday and then no longer valid tomorrow.'
Archbishop Georg Gänswein, papal nuncio to Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia, said the US handling of the war is not what was expected after Donald Trump took office.
The former secretary of Pope Benedict XVI expressed his forthright hope that Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV would 'guarantee stability,' suggesting that Francis had not.
Benedict saw the title of 'pope emeritus' as a recognition that he had 'totally given up the office' of the papacy while still recognizing an 'ongoing' and 'special' relationship, a bond of charity, between himself and his ‘sons and daughters’.
The only way the papacy itself could have changed is if Benedict still considered himself papal. If, however, he thought he could hold onto the papacy in any shape or form—'remain in the precincts of St. Peter'—then he was in error, substantially so.
Even assuming Benedict XVI had concerns about the next conclave, surely there were far simpler and less drastic actions he might have taken to save the Church than handing it over to an anti-pope.
The private audience took place shortly before Gänswein is due to publish his upcoming book, 'Nothing but the Truth: My Life with Benedict XVI,' on January 12