Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI dies at 95 — Vatican (TASS)
He spent his retirement as Pope Emeritus residing in a building of a former monastery in the Vatican | Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has passed away at the age of 95, a representative of the Holy See press office said on Saturday. The German cardinal and renowned theologian Joseph Ratzinger served as the head of the Catholic Church from 2005 until 2013. He became the first pontiff to resign in the past 600 years. He spent his retirement as Pope Emeritus residing in a building of a former monastery in the Vatican.
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Холмогоров | A tragic figure. A major non-modern Catholic theologian who tried to keep the RCC at least somewhat on the rails of tradition and was effectively overthrown in his lifetime, something that hadn't happened in over seven centuries. ● Long before his pontificate I read his Introduction to Christianity. It was a very good book for a Catholic. ● I think he was the last pope in any "Tridentine" sense to live up to that name. ● Requiescat In Pace - this formula is more appropriate here than anywhere else. ● At the end there will be no Christianity other than Orthodoxy. Everything else will irrevocably turn into non-Christianity and anti-Christianity. In fact it already has...(www.DeepL.com/)