BRAZIL
Business Ghana
Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation is an act of desperation in the face of the “moral disaster” that has swamped the Roman Catholic Church and the “internal intrigues” in the Roman curia, Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff told dpa in an interview.
According to Boff, a leading exponent of Liberation Theology, which holds that the church should be closer to the poor, Benedict XVI is to leave to his successor a negative legacy. The outgoing pontiff has been “a pope with no charisma who was unable to lead the Church.”
“He resigned out of desperation, because he could no longer control the Roman curia and bear the moral disaster of pedophilia and of cardinals’ internal intrigues,” said Boff, a former Franciscan friar.
Boff met Joseph Ratzinger before he became Pope Benedict XVI in the 1960s as they both enjoyed discussing theological issues with each other in Germany.
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