Flying back to Rome from Beirut in September 2012, I was escorted down the aisle to the first-class section of the papal plane and seated beside Pope Benedict XVI.
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What I didn’t know at the time was that it was to be his last trip, too. In a few months, he would become the first pope to resign in 600 years.“Congratulations on your retirement,’’ he said in a soft voice, speaking in his German-accented Italian that often made Italians chuckle. “Gracious” is always a word I associate with Benedict, who was perpetually ready to shake hands and say something appropriate for the occasion.
It was fascinating to hear him chat in German with Rabbi Arthur Schneirer, the Vienna-born rabbi, during a stop at New York’s Park East Synagogue. They sounded like two old friends. He said he “deeply regretted” that some took offense, but that he needed to insist that religion can never be a motivation for violence.
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