Last Testament: In His Own Words

ISBN-13: 9781472944627 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 288 str.

Pope Benedict XVI; Peter Seewald

Opis

Pope Benedict made history by being the first Pope in over 700 years to resign from office. The Catholic Church the world over was stunned. Worn out by corruption in the Church and by an endless series of clerical sex scandals, he decided that the resolution of all these problems was outside his power for a man of his age.Last Testament is nearest to an autobiography from the shy and private man who has remained hidden to the world in a former convent in the Vatican gardens. He breaks his silence on issues such as: - The Vatileaks case in which his butler leaked some of his personal letters that alleged corruption and scandal in the Vatican
- The presence of a gay lobby within the Vatican and how he dismantled it
- His alleged Nazi upbringing
- His attempts at cleaning up the dirt in the church (clerical sexual abuse)
- The mysterious private secretary Gorgeous George On a more personal level he writes with great warmth of his successor Pope Francis, who he admits has a popular touch, a star quality which he has lacked. Much controversy still surrounds Pope Benedicts Papacy--in this book he addresses these controversies and reveals how at his late age, governing and reforming the Papacy and particularly the Vatican, was beyond him."

O autorze

On April 19, 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected Pope Benedict XVI and became the 264th successor to Peter as the 'Vicar of Jesus Christ'. He may well be the most accomplished theologian to be elected Pope in modern times. From 1981 he spent over twenty years as the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a role often depicted as the 'defender of the faith'. Cardinal Ratzinger was also President of the Pontifical Biblical Commission and of the Preparatory Commission that codified the new Catechism of the Catholic Church, published in 1994.In an unprecedented move he resigned as Pope on 28 February 2013.