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VATICAN CITY (CNS) When the coffin containing the remains of Pope Benedict XVI was carried into St. Peter s Square, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi was among the 3,700 priests who concelebrated the funeral Mass Jan. 5. You see much better from there, down in St. Peter s Square, he told Catholic News Service the evening after the funeral. Up on the stage, you are behind all the bishops who wear their miters, and it blocks the view.
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) The theological writings and papal teaching of the late Pope Benedict XVI were and will continue to be a blessing to the Catholic Church, Pope Francis wrote. Benedict XVI s thought and magisterium are and always will remain fruitful because he knew how to focus on the fundamental references of our Christian life: first of all, the person and the word of Jesus Christ, as well as the theological virtues, namely charity, hope and faith, the pope wrote in the introduction to
“Benedict XVI did theology on his knees,” the pope wrote in the book’s introduction. “His explanation of the faith was carried out with the devotion of a man who has surrendered all of himself to God.”