my thoughts … Over the last hundred years or so we have made saints or blessed most of the Popes of the last 100 years or so…. One priest said that St John Paul 11 spoke so well of ideas like freedom, human dignity…
but Pope Benedict spoke only of Jesus. For Pope Benedict everything came back to Jesus. His 3 three books were about Jesus. When people attack Pope Benedict and God forbid. Wish him a ….. I have to say. There is a part of me that thinks in an age when we have made every other pope a saint or blessed in the last 100 years. Maybe the only person who might be the closest to God is Pope Benedict.
The funeral will be 930 am Rome, which means 430 am here. As a hospital C… I might be the only person who might see the funeral in real time as being pages 432 am. Pray it not so.
Love your last post, Father, – yes, indeed, our lives should revolve around Jesus, who is the Way, the Life and the Truth!
Would you recommend a book(s) written by Pop Benedict? Thank you!
On the day before he died I read ‘Without Roots’ that is a short but prophetic work