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Gaenswein’s future has been the topic of a lot hypothesis following Benedict’s loss of life and the publication of “Nothing However the Reality: My Life Beside Pope Benedict XVI.” Within the memoir, Gaenswein charted his practically 30 years working with Benedict, but in addition settled old scores, revealed palace intrigues and detailed a number of the dangerous blood that accrued throughout the decade during which Benedict lived as a retired pope alongside Francis.
Revealed throughout the emotional interval round Benedict’s Jan. 5 funeral, the e-book got here to encapsulate the conservative criticism that has been directed at Francis and his extra progressive bent by folks nostalgic for Benedict’s doctrinaire papacy.
Talking to Sky TG24 Sunday after celebrating Mass at a Rome-area church, Gaenswein acknowledged his e-book had raised eyebrows each for its content material and the timing of its publication.
“There are and shall be criticisms,” he stated. “And I’ve to reside with the criticisms.”
He stated that he welcomed well-founded criticism.
“If the criticisms aren’t well-founded, however are criticisms from (anti-Benedict) prejudice or different unfounded motives, I’ve to just accept them, however I can’t take them significantly. True criticism I settle for and I be taught from,” he stated.
He spoke to Sky at Santa Maria Consolatrice, which was the titular church of Benedict when he was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. After the Mass, a plaque honoring the late pope was unveiled.
In an interview with The Associated Press on Jan. 24, Francis responded to Gaenswein’s critiques, and people of different conservatives, by saying they had been pure after 10 years and proved that the prelates felt free to talk.
