Special Envoy in Rome
Pope Francis certainly never takes a vacation, but his 2022 “return” will be one of the most active in the pontificate. At 85, he opens Saturday with a sequence of four very dense days focused, needless to say, on his… property.
First act, creation of twenty new cardinals on Saturday. Act II, The Visitation, Sunday, at Aquila, the tomb of Celestine V, the only pope in history, now with Benedict XVI, to resign. Finally, the last scene, on Monday and Tuesday, an almost unprecedented closed council of all the cardinals to discuss and explain their reform of the Roman Curia, as well as the new government of the Church.
Would Francis thus have prepared his resignation? It is very unlikely. He dotted those i’s on his way home from Canada a month ago. He recognized “sincerely” that’s it “Normal Version” but he didn’t have any “I want to think about this possibility.” A message he repeats to his…
Source: Le Figaro
