Posts Tagged ‘declining health’

Retired Pope Benedict says it was his ‘duty’ to resign from papacy

Friday, September 2nd, 2016

Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI felt he had a “duty” to resign from the papacy because of his declining health and the rigorous demands of papal travel. While his heart was set on completing the Year of Faith, the retired pope told Italian journalist Elio Guerriero that after his visit to Mexico and Cuba in March Read more