read - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 09 Jun 2013 23:18:27 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg read - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Pope Benedict happy living ‘like a monk' https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/06/11/pope-benedict-happy-living-like-a-monk/ Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:03:43 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=45332 "I live like a monk and I'm fine. I pray and I read," Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI has told a German friend who visited him recently at his new residence in the Mater Ecclesiae monastery in Vatican City. Manfred Lutz, a German scholar who is a member of the Pontifical Council for the Laity and Read more

Pope Benedict happy living ‘like a monk'... Read more]]> "I live like a monk and I'm fine. I pray and I read," Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI has told a German friend who visited him recently at his new residence in the Mater Ecclesiae monastery in Vatican City.

Manfred Lutz, a German scholar who is a member of the Pontifical Council for the Laity and the Pontifical Academy for Life, said he found the retired pontiff "physically weaker and a bit more stooped" than a few months earlier, but still mentally alert and cheerful.

He also said he thoroughly agrees with the theological statements of Pope Francis.

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