VATICAN CITY
The Daily Star (Lebanon)
February 23, 2013 By Jean-Louis de la Vaissiere
VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI’s impending resignation is dividing many Catholics between those who see it as a gesture of hope and renewal for the Church and those for whom it is an admission of weakness.
“It is a break that encourages the Church to examine its conscience to start afresh,” said Paolo Colonnetti from the Focolare lay movement.
“It is not at all a gesture that desacralises or has any dangers for the Church,” he said.
Father Sergio, superior general of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, a religious congregation, said he too was optimistic.
“I am awaiting with a confident spirit the goodness the Church will receive from this move,” he said.
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