UNITED STATES
National Catholic Reporter
by Thomas C. Fox | Mar. 4, 2013
As the cardinals gather in discussions this week to determine the road ahead, I hope they stay focused on church governance as the key to moving forward.
It is widely understood that Vatican dysfunction has placed a heavy burden on the church and led to the burdens of which Emeritus Pope Benedict spoke before his retirement.
The Vatican is incapable of running the global church. But let’s keep in mind it did not have to be this way – and that our emeritus pope brought much of it on himself.
“My strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry,” he told the world upon announcing his surprise resignation.
Few will find fault the honest recognition by the 85-year-old prelate that he was no longer up to the task of running the church.
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