Pope Benedict XVI, who died on New Year’s Eve, refused to let Catholics deal openly with the questions of the age—which is a root cause of the fix that the Church is now in.
in the Church; and affirmed, with John Paul, that limiting ordination to men was an “infallible” teaching of the Church.
In all this, Ratzinger was in harmony with John Paul II. But, in their dealings with other religions, John Paul proved more of a “yes” man. The Pope called an unprecedented meeting of the leaders of world religions, in Assisi, in October, 1986, for a World Day of Prayer for Peace.
By the turn of the millennium, John Paul was ailing with Parkinson’s disease, and Ratzinger was, in effect, running the Vatican. But when the Pope died, on April 2, 2005, and the other cardinals appeared likely to choose Ratzinger as John Paul’s successor, he seemed reluctant to assume the office. “At a certain point, I prayed to God, ‘Please don’t do this to me,’ ” he said, not long after he was elected, on April 19th, and took the name Benedict XVI.
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