Farewell to a modest and wonderful Pope
By Damian Thompson | The Telegraph | February 15th, 2013:
LONDON – “You must be awfully shocked by the Pope’s resignation,” people have been saying to me all week. It’s true – I was. For five minutes. But then I thought: how typical of Benedict XVI, the most modest, unsentimental and forward-looking of recent popes. And also, in my opinion, the best.