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1 Year Ago, Benedict’s Announcement Changed Church

posted on February 11, 2014

Nicole Winfield of the Associated Press discusses the first anniversary of Pope Benedict’s resignation. “Benedict was a pope who had to be discovered, sampling his beautiful homilies and studying the profoundness of his texts. But his shy and reserved character, in addition to a certain hostility by the media, didn’t completely show him off,” said Cardinal Georges Cottier, Benedict’s personal theologian. “Now, after his resignation, people are beginning to realize what a big heart he has: he’s a humble, good man, without any toughness.”

Read at Associated Press