Unhelpful Comment
Just when we are getting used to the Pope being able to resign comes a voice out of Poland, that of the Krakow Cardinal and long-time secretary of Pope John Paul II, Stanislaw Dziwisz, saying that the Holy Father has “come down from the Cross” by resigning, implying he should stay there and suffer for the Church when he is unable to do his job and let the church drift through the turbulent events of a world that wants to ride rough shod over Christian values, and is quite happy to fill the vacuum with paganism and violence.
God spare us from such crude theology of suffering that sentences a good and faithful servant to a slow death under the relentless pressure of a task he can no longer perform.
A Prophetic Gesture ...
In 2010, Pope Benedict XVI visited the Church in Aquila Italy which contains the remains of Celestine, the last Pope to resign. In a gesture which, with hindsight, could hold all sorts of meaning, Benedict placed the woolen pallium, the symbol of his office as bishop which he had worn during his own papal inauguration, on Celestine’s tomb.
Pope Benedict XVI at the foot of Pope Celestine’s tomb at Aquila, Italy on 4 July 2010.
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Unhelpful Comment
Just when we are getting used to the Pope being able to resign comes a voice out of Poland, that of the Krakow Cardinal and long-time secretary of Pope John Paul II, Stanislaw Dziwisz, saying that the Holy Father has “come down from the Cross” by resigning, implying he should stay there and suffer for the Church when he is unable to do his job and let the church drift through the turbulent events of a world that wants to ride rough shod over Christian values, and is quite happy to fill the vacuum with paganism and violence.
God spare us from such crude theology of suffering that sentences a good and faithful servant to a slow death under the relentless pressure of a task he can no longer perform.
A Prophetic Gesture ...
In 2010, Pope Benedict XVI visited the Church in Aquila Italy which contains the remains of Celestine, the last Pope to resign. In a gesture which, with hindsight, could hold all sorts of meaning, Benedict placed the woolen pallium, the symbol of his office as bishop which he had worn during his own papal inauguration, on Celestine’s tomb.
Pope Benedict XVI at the foot of Pope Celestine’s tomb at Aquila, Italy on 4 July 2010.
Tagged as: Krakow Cardinal, Pope, Unhelpful Comment