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RevBrotherThomas

(838 posts) Wed Dec 28, 2022, 10:49 AM Dec 2022

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI ill

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/253164/pope-francis-pray-for-a-very-ill-benedict-xvi

Pope Francis on Wednesday asked for prayers for a “very ill” Benedict XVI.
Francis made the appeal for the 95-year-old pope emeritus at the end of his weekly public audience on Dec. 28 in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall.

“I ask to all of you a special prayer for the pope emeritus Benedict, who, in silence, is sustaining the Church... Remember him — he is very ill — asking the Lord to console him and to sustain him in this testimony of love for the Church until the end.”

Benedict XVI, who reigned as pope from 2005 until his resignation on Feb. 28, 2013, lives in a former monastery in the gardens of Vatican City.

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Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI ill (Original Post) RevBrotherThomas Dec 2022 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author PJMcK Dec 2022 #1

Pretty much. Jirel Dec 2022 #2

You might want to take this elsewhere shrike3 Dec 2022 #7

Sorry PJMcK Jan 2023 #9

People do it all the time. shrike3 Jan 2023 #10

+1 2naSalit Dec 2022 #3

You might want to take this elsewhere. shrike3 Dec 2022 #5

This message was self-deleted by its author 2naSalit Dec 2022 #4

Please remember where you are. shrike3 Dec 2022 #6

Please remember this is a safe haven group shrike3 Dec 2022 #8

Thank you, shrike3. It's a pity these reminders are necessary at times. No Vested Interest Jan 2023 #11

It is a pity. shrike3 Jan 2023 #12

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Jirel

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2. Pretty much.

Reply to PJMcK (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 28, 2022, 11:35 AM

Dec 2022

It’s amazing how people still respect him much less call him the “true” pope as hateful conservative Catholics do, when he championed the very worst of catholic “teaching” while being neck-deep in protecting sexually abusive clergy.

shrike3

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7. You might want to take this elsewhere

Reply to Jirel (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 31, 2022, 08:26 PM

Dec 2022

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