Pope Francis said Wednesday that Benedict XVI, who in 2013 became the first pontiff to resign in six centuries, is “very ill” and urged people to pray for him.
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Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni confirmed Benedict’s health had worsened “in the last few hours” and said Francis had visited him after his audience. The pope emeritus, whose real name is Joseph Ratzinger, has since lived a quiet life, rarely appearing in public.German Chancellor Olaf Scholz “wishes the pope emeritus a good recovery and sends his thoughts to him”, said government spokeswoman Christiane Hoffmann.
In 2018, in a letter sent to Italy’s Corriere della Sera daily, Benedict described “the slow withering of my physical forces”, saying he was “on an interior pilgrimage towards home”.The ex-pope, who uses a wheelchair, said “the Lord has taken away my speech in order to let me appreciate silence”, Grech told Vatican News.
But while he took key steps to tackle the issue, Benedict was criticised for failing to end Church cover-ups.A damning report for the German church in January 2022 accused him of personally having failed to stop four predatory priests in the 1980s while archbishop of Munich.– God’s Rottweiler – Eleonora Matsechek, 19, who was in Saint Peter’s Square on Wednesday, said his death would be “sad, because he was a good pope”.In Bavaria, southern Germany, where Ratzinger once worked — and where he brother Georg led the scandal-hit cathedral choir — 62-year-old Erich Wagner expressed surprise at the news.
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