It will be in a book that will come out in January 2023. It will explain the “misunderstood” aspects of his pontificate.
After the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who passed away on December 31 in Italy, his personal secretary announced that publish his memoirs in which he faces the slander who reproached him during his pontificate.
This was reported by Monsignor Georg Gänswein, who accompanied the historic figure of the Church until the last days of his life and that hours before his death he had announced that he was fading “slowly and serenely”.
As he pointed out, his memories will come to light in January 2023 in a book called “Nient’altro che la veritá. La mia vita al fanco di Benedetto XVI”. In its Spanish translation: “Nothing but the truth. My life with Benedict XVI.”
It will be published by the Piemme de Mondadori publishing house in the first days of next month and will explain the “misunderstood” aspects during the period in which the pope held office.
Gänswein, the German priest whom Benedict chose as his personal secretary in 2003, promised to publish in his book “the very truth about the miserable slanders and the dark maneuvers that have tried in vain to cast shadows on the magisterium and the actions of the German pontiff”.
And he revealed about the writing: “These pages contain a personal testimony of the greatness of a calm man, a fine scholar, a cardinal and a pope who has made the history of our time. But they are also a first-person narrative that tries to shed light on some misunderstood aspects of his pontificate and describe from the inside the true ‘Vatican world'”.
The death of Benedict XVI
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI died on Saturday, December 31 at the age of 95, full of ailments but with a lucid mind, a historical figure of the Church, a great theologian, who for forty years was in the front line at the Vatican summits. As reported by the Vatican, the death occurred at 9:34 Italian time, in the residence of the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery.
First, since 1981, as Cardinal Guardian of Doctrinal Orthodoxy and Church Discipline. Joseph Ratzinger was the trusted man of Saint John Paul II, in practice the number two in the Church due to his importance and influence in the long 26-year pontificate of Karol Wojtyla.
The Polish Pope led him to his succession by naming him Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, which allowed him in 2005 to guide the 115 cardinals who elected him in two days in the Sistine Chapel under the name of Benedict XVI. Once again it was shown that the saying that he assures is not true: whoever enters the Conclave as a Pope leaves as a cardinal.
After eight years of conservative pontificate, Ratzinger resigned on February 28, 2013, a long-considered decision.
He once confessed that he decided to resign in August 2012, when he realized that he no longer had the physical and mental strength to continue. In 1991 he had suffered a stroke, a family disease, which in two years made him lose sight in his left eye. He also had other ailments that he managed to survive for a long time.
With information from agencies
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