On the anniversary of BXVI’s resignation Charles Altieri, Catholic Herald Thursday, March 1, 2018 “To be perfectly frank, I thought the resignation was bad for the Church and for the Petrine office. I understand the arguments for it, but I did not then and do not now agree with them. A lot has changed in the world over the last fifty or one hundred years, and people do generally live longer, but human nature has remained the same.” © 2023 The Catholic Thing. All rights reserved. For reprint rights, write to: [email protected] The Catholic Thing is a forum for intelligent Catholic commentary. Opinions expressed by writers are solely their own.
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On the anniversary of BXVI’s resignation
Charles Altieri, Catholic Herald
Thursday, March 1, 2018
“To be perfectly frank, I thought the resignation was bad for the Church and for the Petrine office. I understand the arguments for it, but I did not then and do not now agree with them. A lot has changed in the world over the last fifty or one hundred years, and people do generally live longer, but human nature has remained the same.”