Benedict XVI has said that, although he does not see himself “as a failure”, governance was not his “forte” as pope.
In a book-length interview with the author Peter Seewald, Benedict said that when he resigned he had the “peace of someone who had overcome difficulty” and “could tranquilly pass the helm to the one who came next”.
The new book, Last Testament, will be released in English by Bloomsbury in November. The German and Italian editions were released last Saturday with excerpts published in the Italian daily Corriere della Sera.
