VATICAN CITY (AP) — With a humble ‘‘Grazie’’ as bishops doffed their mitres and applause echoed through St. Peter’s Basilica, a frail Pope Benedict XVI began his long farewell by presiding over Ash Wednesday services in a tearful, final public Mass.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — With a humble ‘‘Grazie’’ as bishops doffed their mitres and applause echoed through St. Peter’s Basilica, a frail Pope Benedict XVI began his long farewell by presiding over Ash Wednesday services in a tearful, final public Mass.
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What a picture of two old men with white hair.
One with the courage to look at himelf and say, I need to resign for the good of the church.
The other a coward, who sees a predator in priestly garb preying on the young in the flock and looks the other way.
The one with courage goes to a life of prayer and seclusion; the coward goes to a cozy sinecure in a foreign land.
They are both cowards and he leaves in disgrace, having criminally handled thousands of reports of abuse