On this monthly anniversary day of the Holy Father, an anecdote recounted by Father Z on his blog today is very comforting:
I remember years ago in the corridor of the Palazzo Sant’Uffizio, I asked Cardinal Ratzinger how he took the constant unfair criticism. I had read that day a terrible article about him in an Italian daily.
He said, "If I don’t read an article like that every week or so, I have to examine my conscience."
God bless!