Benedict XVI asked that his private documents be destroyed, says the secretary

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who died last Saturday, the 31st, at the age of 95, asked his personal secretary, Dom Georg Ganswein, to destroy his private writings “without exception,” as the latter himself states in his next book. Some people have asked me what I will do with their documents after Benedict XVI dies. This is not really a problem for me, as I have received precise instructions from him, as to the manuscripts of his books, the documents relating to the Council and his correspondence, which I am obliged to conscientiously respect”, wrote Ganswein. The German Archbishop, Benedict XVI’s closest collaborator since 2003, specified that “as is In the case of the rest of the writings, their fate is sealed.” “Private papers (book pages) of all kinds must be destroyed. “It should be done without exceptions and without loopholes,” Ganswein said of the instructions he received from the Pope Emeritus. Gänswein will publish Nothing but the Truth next week in response to the “slander and slanderous maneuvers” that, he says, have tried “in vain” to overshadow the legacy of the pope who died in the abbey. affiliate Vatican It is where he spent the last decade of his life after his historic resignation from the papacy in 2013. In its pages, the German Monsignor Francis, the current Pope and successor to Benedict XVI, criticized some of his decisions, for example, to put an end to the masses in Latin, something that is highly criticized by the more conservative sectors in Catholic Church.

He also said that from day to day, Francis He was entrusted with the task of looking after Ratzinger in his recluse in the Abbey of the Mater Church. “From now on, stay at home, accompany Pinto, who needs you, and act as a shield for him,” Francisco would say. In the book, he emphasized and lamented the existence of currents or “volatility” within the Vatican. In fact, I think a correct analysis should point to a problem, not so much the coexistence of two popes, one reigning and the other titular, but the birth and development of two groups, because with the passage of time he (Benedict XVI) became increasingly aware that there Indeed, two views of the Church.In the past decade, the coexistence of two popes, one ruling and the other titular, has given rise to two currents, and the more conservative wing has resorted to the legacy of Pope Benedict XVI to attack Francis, although both have always shown mutual respect.

* With information from EFE