In the queue for the farewell to the Pope who said no: “He deserves a thank you”

Some cite his encyclicals, some his battle against paedophilia, some his resignation that changed history, some make comparisons with Wojtyla e Bergogliowho admits, candidly, «I was here to visit St. Peter’s, of Ratzinger I do not know anything”. There were voices from all over the world and small groups of Italians who had arrived from every region to greet the Pope Emeritus, in the long line that under a gray but not cold sky, with emotion but without tears, walked slowly along the colonnade of Bernini on the first day of farewell to that pontiff who sensationally fell from the throne of Peter in 2013.
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