JANUARY 10, 2023 • ARCHGH.ORG/TCH
A SPECIAL PRAYER FOR POPE BENEDICT XVI
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POPE BENEDICT XVI · 1927 - 2022
The global impact of a German pope VATICAN CITY (OSV News) — Very few figures within the contemporary Church have influenced it as deeply and for as long as Pope Benedict XVI, who died Dec. 31, 2022 at 95. The lasting legacy of Joseph Ratzinger — whom author George Weigel told OSV News was “one of the most consequential Christian figures of modern times” — POPE EMERITUS will be a part of the BENEDICT XVI universal Church for generations to come. Joseph Ratzinger will go down in history linked to the Second Vatican Council (1962 to 1965), of which he was See LEGACY, page 5
IN MEMORIA
Hundreds of thousands pay last respects to Pope Benedict XVI at St. Peter’s VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A quiet hush covered the vast expanse of St. Peter’s Square even though it was filled with thousands of people slowly winding their way around the colonnade into St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their last respects to the late Pope Benedict XVI. Daniel Cardinal DiNardo, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, was one of the many who visited St. Peter’s Basilica to pray and honor the late pope. Outdoor souvenir sellers were wellstocked with rosaries Jan. 2, but they seemed to have been caught off guard with a plethora of touristy tchotchkes and few to no images or mementos of the late pope. A damp chill hung in the air at nine in the morning when the doors of the basilica opened to the public on the first of three days to view the pope’s body. Special accommodations, however, were made for officials of the Roman See TRIBUTE, page 2
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People pay their respects at the body of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Jan. 3.
Cardinal DiNardo: Pope Benedict XVI shepherded the Church ‘with great love’ HERALD STAFF REPORT VATICAN CITY — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who surprised the world by announcing he would retire as pope, died on Dec. 31, 2022. He was 95 years old. “It is with deep sadness and hope in the Resurrection that we mourn the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI,” Daniel Cardinal DiNardo said in a Dec. 31 statement. “From 2005 to 2013, the late Holy Father shepherded the Church with great love,” said Cardinal DiNardo said. “His keen intellect invigorated the New Evangelization by drawing hearts and minds into the mystery of our redemption in Christ and inspiring countless men and women to spread the Gospel by the example of their lives.”
Before leaving for Rome to attend the late pope’s funeral events, Daniel Cardinal DiNardo said in his Jan. 1 homily at a Mass at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart that the former pope was a first-rate theologian. “Someday, they’ll put together all of his homilies from Christmas, Epiphany, Holy Week and Easter, and they’ll combine them together — just like they do those same homilies of Leo the Great and Pope Gregory the Great — and when they read them 100 years from now, they’ll say, ‘Wow, this guy was first-rate.’” Pope Benedict XVI elevated Cardinal DiNardo to the College of Cardinals on Nov. 24, 2007 — the first and so far only cardinal in Texas. “Every time I saw him after that... he’d go, ‘Ah Ha! Texas is here!”’ the cardinal recalled. Cardinal DiNardo said he would be
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Pope Benedict XVI presents a ring to Daniel Cardinal DiNardo during a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Nov. 25, 2007.
on his way to Rome soon after the Mass because “Texas should be there.” Both Cardinal DiNardo and the late Archbishop Emeritus Joseph A. Fiorenza had a unique relationship with See BENEDICT, page 4
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