Benedict XVI’s declining health prompts prayers from world’s Catholics
The Vatican said Thursday that the situation was “serious” but “stable.”
Francis, who had met with Benedict on Wednesday, carried on with a usual day of meetings, according to a schedule released by the Vatican. Around St. Peter’s Square, television crews staked out positions. But otherwise, the grand piazza looked as it normally does: with tourists snaking in lines to enter St. Peter’s Basilica. It was the same square where Benedict, in 2005, first greeted the Catholic world as pope from the basilica loggia, and where he bid farewell in 2013 after his stunning abdication, thanking a huge crowd and saying, “I am truly moved.
Even in his home country of Germany, he wasn’t beloved. When he addressed the German parliament in 2011, dozens of lawmakers objected to the idea that he would be given a political platform and boycotted the event, while thousands outside protested the way he was leading the church.
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