Mass in Rome for Pope Benedict 10 years after abdication

Mass in the church of the German priests' college Campo Santo Teutonico for the deceased former pope who announced his resignation ten years ago Vatican City, 11.02.2023. Six weeks after the death of Benedict XVI, the deceased was commemorated with a mass in the Vatican. The requiem on Friday evening in the church of the German priests' college Campo Santo Teutonico was celebrated by the prefect of the Vatican's faith authority, Cardinal Luis Ladaria. The late Pope's private secretary, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, also attended the ceremony. Josef Ratzinger, who led the Catholic Church as Benedict XVI from 2005 to 2013, had died on New Year's Eve at the age of 95. 

Ten years ago, on 11 February 2013, he had announced his resignation from office in a surprising gesture. In his sermon, the Swiss Curia Cardinal Kurt Koch emphasised the importance of the celebration of divine service in Joseph Ratzinger's theology, according to which "Church and liturgy are virtually identical". "In the centrality of worship lies a great legacy that Pope Benedict XVI leaves us," said Koch, who did not attend the Mass due to illness. Benedict XVI was "of the justified conviction that all the renewal of the Church, which is certainly necessary, must proceed from a profound spiritual renewal of the liturgy".

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Cathcon: I have always thought that psychologically the abdication was a redramatisation of his participation in the German surrender in 1945. When his successor came out onto to the balcony, I knew it was going to be as bad as bad as bad can be.  I uttered an expletive and dropped to my knees in a Welsh pub and said the Te Deum.