Archbishop Gänswein Hopes for a Beatification of Benedict XVI in the Near Future

Archbishop Gänswein hopes for a beatification process for Benedict XVI.

The German news service Katholish posted excerpts from an interview on K-TV with the late Pope Benedict XVI's personal secretary  Archbishop Georg Gänswein. “I personally very much hope that such a process will be opened,” Archbishop Georg Gänswein said, expressing his desire for a beatification process for Benedict XVI. In an interview, he also commented on the latter’s theology and the “Old Mass.”

Archbishop Georg Gänswein hopes that a beatification process will be opened for the late Pope Benedict XVI (2005-2013). "I personally very much hope that such a process will be opened," said the former private secretary of Benedict and current Apostolic Nuncio to the Baltic States in an interview with the television channel "K-TV".

According to the broadcaster, Gänswein emphasized the central element of Benedict's understanding of faith in the interview. A key word here was "joy." For the German Pope, faith was both the source and the measure of joy. If faith does not lead to joy, "something is not quite right with the life of faith. Ratzinger, Benedict XVI, is a theologian of joy," said Gänswein, who also reaffirmed the importance of continuity in faith: "We must not cut away at the substance; rather, we must allow ourselves to be shaped by the Lord, by the faith of the Church."

Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite: Back to Benedict's "wise regulation"

With regard to the future of the so-called Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite ("Old Mass"), Gänswein, according to the broadcaster, advocated overcoming the tensions and discord that arose within the Church following Pope Francis's Apostolic Letter "Traditionis Custodes" by returning to the line of Benedict XVI: "I consider Pope Benedict's wise arrangement to be the right way – and this path should be continued without difficulty or restriction." He could only hope that Pope Leo XIV would continue to resolve this thorny issue in this manner.
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