Ex Pope Benedict- God Asked Me To Resign (READ MORE )

Former Pope Benedict has said he resigned after “God told me to”
during what he called a “mystical experience”, a Catholic news agency
reported.
Benedict, whose formal title is now Pope Emeritus, announced his
shock resignation on February 11 and on February 28 became the first
pontiff to step down in 600 years.
“God told me to do it,” the Zenith agency quoted Benedict as saying to a
visitor to the convent in the Vatican gardens where he is living out his
retirement in near isolation.
According to the agency, Benedict told his visitor, who asked to remain
anonymous, that God did not speak to him in a vision but in what the
former pope called “a mystical experience”.
According to Italian media, Benedict’s decision to step down was
influenced by the various scandals that blighted his eight-year papacy,
including the arrest of his personal butler for leaking private
documents alleging corruption in the Vatican.
He was succeeded by Pope Francis, the former Cardinal Jorge Mario
Bergoglio of Argentina, who was elected as the first non-European
pontiff in 1,300 years.
According to the Rome-based Zenith, Benedict told his visitor that the
more he observes the way Francis carries out his papal duties, the
more he realised the choice was “wanted by God”.
Last Sunday, Benedict spent a day at the papal summer retreat at
Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome, to escape the heat of the capital.
The visit indicated that the 86-year-old ex pope’s health was good
enough for him to travel. There had been media reports that since his
resignation, Benedict’s health had deteriorated dramatically.

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