✣Pope calls unprecedented abuse summit
What happened? Two letters that Benedict XVI wrote to his friend Cardinal Walter Brandmüller last November have been leaked to the German newspaper Bild. In the letters Benedict rebuked his friend for publicly criticising his decision to abdicate the papacy. He also defended his decision to accept the title “Pope Emeritus”. If he had returned to being a cardinal, he said, he would have been “constantly exposed to the media”. As Pope Emeritus he was “absolutely not accessible”, he wrote.
