Italy's most popular newspaper publishes every week a magazine with articles of opinion by renowned writers. It is a secular publication like all the major newspapers in every nation. I usually do not read this magazine but this week I found a copy of the last edition. I began to go through it and I found there an interesting editorial about the Pope. This opinion article had a very positive impression from Benedict's choice to leave. It presented this decision that our Pope has made as a good example for politicians and for people who attach to power to follow. I am finding that many hold this opinion. A non-practicing Catholic that I spoke with was also impressed and suggested that not only people of power have something to learn from the Pope but even normal persons who sometimes think they are indispensable in what they do.
This position is interesting and is logic. I agree with these persons. The example that Pope is giving to the world, however, is greater than just that though. More than an example his decision is a witness. Not only is he showing the limits of the human person and the need to let go even of powerful positions for the common good. Pope Benedict XVI is teaching us all that we are called to discern constantly God's will in our life and to follow it. His is an example of love for Christ and for the Church to the point of doing what no other pope had done in many centuries. His holiness is witnessing the peace and the joy that comes from doing what the Spirit suggests.
We continue to pray for him and for the future of the Church as he has finished today his week-long spiritual retreat at the Vatican and prepares for his last public Angelus prayer tomorrow. St. Peter's Square, at noon, will be packed. That's for sure.
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