The Change Upon Christ’s Rock
Benedict XVI’s resignation might be the most unexpected papal decision since the convening of the Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s — which came about, Pope John XXIII said, not after long deliberation, but “like the flower of an unexpected spring.”
Rare is the person who will voluntarily relinquish immense power. There had been fevered speculation in the waning years of John Paul II’s papacy that his Parkinson’s disease would prompt his retirement, but he opted to stay. In contrast, Pope Benedict said that “my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise” of his ministry.… Seguir leyendo »