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October 26, 2017 headlines
October 27, 2017 headlines
Both headline sets are from Canon212.com because PewSitter has had technical problems and says may not be functional again till Monday or Tuesday.
Now let's get to the so-called 'black eye' touted above. The story comes from Bergoglio tout Andrea Tornielli, but other than the title, it does
not seem malicious at all. (It may not seem so at all today, but before March 13, 2013, Tornielli was seemingly a sincere all-out Ratzingerian
who had nothing but praise for Benedict XVI/Joseph Ratzinger.)
The image comes from the Facebook page of Mons. Stefan Oster, Bishop of Passau in Bavaria, who visited the Emeritus Pope at Mater Ecclesiae on Oct. 26. Is that Peter Seewald on the left???
The photo with Ratzinger’s 'black eye'
Benedict XVI is fine, but slipped last week
suffering a hematoma (bruise) below his right eye
by Andrea Tornielli
Oct. 27, 2017
VATICAN CITY - The latest rumors about the alleged aggravation of his health condition had been shut down by the publication of a photo that portrayed the Pope emeritus during his afternoon walk in the Vatican gardens.
Now another new photo has gone public of Pope Benedict XVI, who has no problem about being photographed as he is, with his age-related railty, and continues to receive visits.
Stefan Oster, the bishop of Passau, posted it on Facebook on Thursday, 26 October, together with the author Peter Seewald - who published four book-length interviews with Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI – as he presented the pope with a book. In the picture, we see Benedict XVI carrying on his face the sign of a recent fall.
In reporting the news, Mons. explained that the visible bruise under Benedict's right eye was caused by a fall at home a week ago. This is the caption that accompanied the photos of the meeting (which was translated and posted on Facebook by Vik Van Brantegem, former assistant to the Press Office of the Holy See):
What a heartfelt encounter today in Rome with our beloved Father emeritus Benedict XVI! Together with the well-known journalist Peter Seewald, I had the honor to present him with a wonderful new book: a volume that our diocese has published together with Seewald. Title: “Benedict XVI - The German Pope”. Great images, many short, deep texts on great themes and a brief summary of his life.
Although Pope Benedict has a black eye after a fall last week, he has met us in good health, good shape, full of spirit and with many small and great memories of people from his and our diocese. He sends his greetings to all of us and has given us all his blessing.
Just over a month ago, [Pope] Francis [Has Tornielli taken on his pope's use of 'Francis', unqualified, to refer to himself? As if the mere name identifies him totally, in what he perceives as his uniqueness in the world and in history!] was left with a black eye, in his case, on the left. During the last day of his trip to Colombia, in the city of Cartagena, while he was on the popemobile -it had been prepared by the Colombians with a high glass partition separating the Pope’s side from the driver’s cabin.
The pope slammed into the glass divider when the driver braked suddenly to avoid running down a person who had thrown himself in front of the vehicle. The result was a hematoma visible for several days after on Bergoglio’s face.
Personally, I wish Oster had not published this photo at all - was it the best of the photos he had on the occasion? Not because of the bruise, but because the Emeritus Pope looks particularly downcast in it, in great contrast to Oster's wide and happy grin.
More than that, however, I wish someone in the Mater Ecclesiae household 'minds' the Holy Father 24/7, because at his age, a bad fall that results in any bone fracture could eventually be fatal.
As for that banner headline hyping a story by documented Benedict-hater Robert Mickens [he has found a second life as a correspondent for the fairly new La Croix International, after having been fired by the Tablet two years ago for tweeting that he looked forward to 'the Rat's' funeral!] - it really is a defense of Bergoglio and an attack at all of his critics, in which Mickens shamelessly uses Benedict XVI by claiming that he does not support any of Bergoglio's critics.
https://international.la-croix.com/news/opposition-to-pope-francis-its-time-to-call-off-the-dogs/6218?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=e-mail&utm_content=27-10-2017&utm_campaign=newsletter__crx_lci&PMID=975f9cea093f97a1261f9a8857997058
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