So Benedict’s death “didn’t make things any easier” for Francis’ pontificate, the head of Kathpress’s Rome bureau and the German Catholic news agency KNA analyzed.
Benedict XVI I have never attacked the Franziskus course head-on in the last ten years, continued Ring-Eifel. So there was something like a “suspension agreement” between the church wards. Francis’ far-reaching desire for reform, which called a synod to do this and where it is a question of greater participation of the laity in the Church, “this goes very against the grain of conservatives”. “More tension will build up there in the near future” and in this situation, Francis no longer has the old pope by his side to support him.
The requiem for Benedict XVI was once again the “moment of the two popes”, emphasized the former KNA editor-in-chief. Francisco had to be very careful with the words in his eulogy and “resolved it fantastically”. “The grand hand-on-casket farewell gesture” once again underlined the inner connection between these two very different men.