The Vatican says that Pope Francis will celebrate the funeral Mass for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in St. Peter’s Square on Thursday. It will be an unprecedented event in which a current pope will celebrate the funeral for a former one.
LONDON -- The spiritual head of the Anglican church says that “in his life and ministry, Pope Benedict XVI directed people to Christ.”
In a statement, she praised his lifelong service to the church and ability to “speak to the hearts and minds of people with the spiritual, cultural and intellectual profundity of his magisterium.” Scholz said on Twitter Saturday that “as the ‘German’ pope, Benedict XVI was a special church leader for many, not just in this country.”He said that “the world is losing a formative figure of the Catholic Church, a combative personality and a wise theologian.”BERLIN — The governor of Benedict XVI’s native German region says that “we are mourning our Bavarian pope.”
He noted that “at the same time, he also had to face responsibility for difficult phases in his work.”The head of the German Bishops’ Conference, Limburg Bishop Georg Baetzing, said that “an impressive theologian and experienced shepherd is leaving us with the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.”
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