06 November 2014, The Tablet

Two Popes, not one?


 
 In the light of your editorial on Pope Emeritus Benedict’s comments on relativism (“Pope Benedict’s fearful words”, 1 November), and your report in that issue’s “The Church in the World”, is it not pertinent to ask whether the Catholic Church has, in fact, two Popes? At his retirement, Benedict vowed that he would live “hidden from the world”. However, his regular appearances and public utterances do not promote this image. Benedict had eight years in which to make his mark on the Church – for better or worse – and it is now time that he left Francis to pursue his own reformist agenda without interference.I have always believed that Benedict should be spending his retirement in a cloister in Bavaria but then, living o
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