ROME – Pope Benedict XVI’s long-time private secretary, German Archbishop Georg Gänswein, spent the Feast of the Epiphany at a small parish in northern Italy, telling parishioners that Benedict was a man of prayer and debunking conspiracies behind his historic resignation.
Speaking to churchgoers at Sacred Heart Parish in Carnovali, Bergamo, on the 6 January Feast of the Epiphany, Gänswein described the late pontiff, who died on 31 December 2022 at the age of 94, as someone “whose vocation was that of a university professor and not an ecclesiastical career”.
