Monday, February 11, 2013

What Does this Abdication Theologically Teach Us?

There is something very important hidden in the big news today. While a lot of people will be talking about the fact of Pope Benedict XVI abdicating, and while a lot of people will be talking about why a Pope can abdicate, few if any will be talking about what it tells us.

The Papal Office is just that, an office. We give great honor to the man who holds the Keys of the Kingdom, but it is really the Keys that we are honoring.

Pope Benedict XVI Abdicating

Read the full text of Pope Benedict's letter here.

Only the Holy Father could wake me up early this morning, and only the Holy Father could get this busy law student to actually post something since late October.