“After repeatedly examining my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that, due to advanced age, I have no strength to adequately exercise the Petrine ministry”. On February 11, 2013, the then Pope Benedict XVI said goodbye with these words of his mandate at the head of the Vatican that he had undertaken in 2005.
An event that received maximum international attention and that we at laSexta have in the images you can see above.
Joseph Ratzinger said goodbye to the papacy, even adding the official date of his departure: the February 28th. Nine years later, and since this Wednesday, December 28, international attention has been focused on him again since the current Pope Francis reported that his state of health has worsened and by asking for a “special prayer” for the pope emeritus.
Source: Lasexta
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