KRAKOW (OSV News) In interviews with OSV News, two cardinals pleased to call Pope Benedict XVI a friend reflected on his death and what the pope emeritus brought to the life of the church.
The world lost a wonderful man. A very kind man, Cardinal George Pell, former prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, told OSV News. I ve seen him regularly since I came back to Rome to talk about the life of the church and many things. So I will miss him.
The world in general, he added, will miss
VATICAN CITY (CAN) The consistory for the creation of cardinals on Aug. 27 is a ceremony that seems to mark the end of a pontificate though that end might be long in coming.