Open Access"The painful pontificate" is over. What will be the next?
Author(s) -
Petro Yarotskiy
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
ukraïnsʹke relìgìêznavstvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2617-9792
pISSN - 2306-3548
DOI - 10.32420/2013.65.232
Subject(s) - apostle , pilgrimage , abdication , governor , thunder , throne , holy see , ancient history , christian ministry , history , baptism , law , classics , political science , engineering , politics , aerospace engineering , electrical engineering
Suddenly, as the thunder in the clear sky, the abdication of Benedict XVI came from the execution of the functions of the apostle Peter's governor on the Roman throne. Indeed, the event is unprecedented, not ordinary in almost all history of the Catholic Church. Was it predicted? Was it clear that there were good reasons for such a departure from this pontiff? The reasons for making such a desperate step still occurred to the Roman popes, but they never used them. Suffice it to recall in what perverse physical condition was the ministry of John Paul II. However, by the end of his days he was a functioning, dynamic minister of the Church and an energetic governor of the Vatican City State, who did not stop his world pilgrimage mission. Although it was very difficult for him, as it was obvious to everyone, to carry out this mission.