Africa-Press – Angola. The President of the National Assembly, Carolina Cerqueira, praised, this Wednesday, the figure of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, considering him a serene man with an unbreakable verticality to his principles.
According to the President of the Parliament, who went to the Apostolic Nunciature to pay homage to Pope Benedict XVI, he established himself as one of the most outstanding theologians of all time and knew how to mark an important era in his passage as leader of the Catholic Church.
“Joseph Retzinger was one of the most illustrious figures of the Catholic Church, of recognized intellectuality, wisdom and serenity and of an unbreakable verticality to the principles and values he always defended”, wrote Carolina Cerqueira.
Carolina Cerqueira underlined that, when he visited the country, in 2009, Benedict XVI left his mark in Angola, in a manifesto of appreciation and friendship to the Catholic communities and in the wishes of preserving peace, building a socially fair and economically developed society, having a strong and rich country that makes all Angolans proud.
Benedict XVI died on December 31 at the age of 95, having abdicated in 2013, becoming the first to do so in six centuries.
Joseph Ratzinger, who was Pope between 2005 and 2013, was born in 1927 in Marktl am Inn, in the German diocese of Passau, becoming the first German to head the Catholic Church in many centuries and a representative of the most dogmatic line of the Church.
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