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So, on the one hand, there are those in MSM (and Catholic media) who purport to 'fear' Benedict XVI's possible interference in Vatican affairs and influence on the decisions of Pope Francis (a baseless assumption that insults both of them), while at the same time, there are those who would paint him as so afflicted by health problems that he has to be dysfunctional.
Guys, make up your mind - either he's well enough to be scheming behind the scenes, or too sick to function normally, let alone meddle in anything. He can't be both. In fact, he is neither, because that's not just who Joseph Ratzinger is. And God forbid that the more unsavory elements in media have now begun a 'death watch' on him as they did on John Paul II for well over a decade!
Consider this item in the UK press - which, BTW, collectively perpetrated gloatingly the Spanish female reporter's dire 'prognosis' of the emeritus Pope, simply on the basis of the same videoclip we all saw of Benedict in Castel Gandolfo when Pope Francis visited him...
Former Pope Benedict XVI is
'depressed by retirement',
says Vatican insider
By Emily Fox
May 3, 2013
BENEDICT XVI has become depressed since he retired as Pontiff, Vatican insiders have claimed.
The 86-year-old Pope who stepped down to make way for younger Pope Francis= is said to be suffering from a sense of deflation - a similar sense felt by busy working people who suddenly stop work. [He didn't step down 'to make way for younger Pope Francis' specifically, but for someone more able to carry the burden of the Papacy than an 86-year-old with the increasing physical disabilities that are inevitable at his age].
According to an aide [Really? Which aide, since he only has Mons. Gaenswein and the Flemish deacon now as 'aides', neither of whom would be so stupid as to talk indiscreetly about Benedict, whose privacy they are there to serve and preserve!], he has been in a low mood, which has been compounded by failing health.
Whispers in the Loggia, the Catholic gossip blog written by Vatican observer Rocco Palmo claimed Benedict had not been at his best in recent weeks and has been reminiscing of the past.
The former Pope moved back to the Vatican yesterday to take up residence with current Pope Francis. It is the first time in Vatican history that two popes have resided within the walls...
We have come to a pretty pass indeed when one of Europe's largest mass-circulation newspapers peddles this kind of news based on what Is purported in whatit identifies as a 'gossip blog'! I am sure that will not please Rocco Palmo (who must blame it on his own tendency to sound gossipy, especially when he purports to report 'events' within the Vatican based on no more information than is available to most of us who can read what the Vatican posts on its website, as if he were getting the news straight from the flies on the wall next to Benedict XVI and Pope Francis). In this regrettable attempt to sound like the ultimate Vatican insider, he far antedated the aforementioned Spanish reporter. Mr. Palmo has many excellences, especially his contacts within the USCCB and his reporting on major events within the US Church, but being connected to the US bishops does not translate to having an umbilical cord to the Vatican.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 06/05/2013 21:06] |
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