Dec 17, 2019 · Pope Benedict accuses his visitor from Argentina: “You said the Church is narcissistic.” But Francis said this after he became pope, not before.
May 22, 2017 · Though Benedict is still living, Francis is trying to bury him.
Feb 1, 2021 · When Pope Benedict XVI stepped down from the Petrine ministry on February 28, 2013, and Francis was elected pope on March 13 of that year, ...
Jan 15, 2020 · The notion that Francis was elected to upend the magisterium of John Paul II and Benedict XVI is sheer invention, at least to those who knew ...
Mar 1, 2023 · Whereas Benedict was innovative, Francis is a throwback. In 1870, at the First Vatican Council, Pope Pius IX secured the passage of Pastor ...
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Aug 31, 2023 · Pope Francis made it abundantly clear that he does not like the Church in America. He thinks U.S. Catholics are backward-looking and an ...
The intense study of the Bible, Benedict proposed, had developed important intellectual skills within Western civilization, including the ...
Yet the “Francis is different than Benedict, therefore Francis is criticizing Benedict” line is one you find in many articles on the new pope. Like this one ...
Apr 1, 2024 · For Benedict, faith was the foundation and informing energy of the other two virtues. And to his great credit, a newly elected Pope Francis ...