BENEDICT XVI WILL
BE POPE EMERITUS
Fr Federido Lombardi, S.J.
Benedict XVI will be "Pontiff Emeritus" or "Pope Emeritus".
Vatican City, 26
February 2013 (VIS) – Benedict XVI will be “Pontiff emeritus” or “Pope emeritus”, as Fr.
Federico Lombardi, S.J., director of the Holy See Press Office, reported in a
press conference on the final days of the current pontificate. He will keep the
name of “His Holiness, Benedict XVI” and will dress in a simple white cassock
without the mozzetta (elbow-length cape).
The red mozzetta
The Papal Audience will take place in St Peter Square
More than 50,000 tickets have already
been requested for the Pope's final general audience tomorrow morning, 27
February, but greater attendance is expected. Except for the trip around St.
Peter's Square in the popemobile and the exclusion of the “bacciamani” (brief
personal greetings that take place after the ceremony), the audience will take
place as usual.
The Clementine Hall, Vatican City
On its conclusion, the Pope will go to the Clementine Hall of
the Vatican Palace to meet with some of the civil authorities who are present
in Rome or who have travelled here to wish him farewell. Among these
dignitaries will be the presidents of Slovakia and of the German region of
Bavaria.
San Damaso Courtyard
On the morning of 28 February, the last
day of his pontificate, the Pope will meet with, again in the Clementine Hall,
the cardinals what are present in Rome. At 4:55pm, in the San Damaso Courtyard
of the Vatican Apostolic Palace and before a detachment of the Swiss Guards,
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B., secretary of State of His Holiness, and and
other members of that dicastery will bid him farewell. The Pope's helicopter
will land at Castel Gandolfo at 5:15pm, where he will be received by Cardinal
Giuseppe Bertello and Bishop Giuseppe Sciacca, respectively president and
secretary general of the Governorate of Vatican City State along with Bishop
Marcello Semeraro of the Diocese of Albano, and civil authorities of the
locality.
The Pope will appear at the balcony of Castel Gandolfo Apostolic Palace
Benedict XVI will appear at the balcony
of the Castel Gandolfo Apostolic Palace to greet those who have gathered in the
square to wish him well. The Sede Vacante will begin at 8:00pm and the Swiss
Guards assigned to him at Castel Gandolfo will take their leave, as their corps
is dedicated to the safe-guarding of the Roman Pontiff. Instead, the Vatican
Gendarmerie will take over the Pope emeritus' safety detail.
The fisherman's ring will be destroyed
Fr. Lombardi also explained that
Bendict XVI will no longer use the “Fisherman's Ring”, which will be destroyed
along with the lead seal of the pontificate. This task falls to the cardinal
camerlengo and his assistants.
He will no longer wear the red papal shoes.
Likewise, the Press Office director announced
that the Pope will no longer wear the red papal shoes.
A cardinals' congregation
Regarding the beginning of the
Congregations of Cardinals, the dean of the College of Cardinals will send a
letter to all the cardinals on 1 March, calling them to Rome. “It is likely,
therefore,” Fr. Lombardi added, “that the congregations will begin starting
next week.”
The congregations will be held in the new Synod Hall
The congregations will be held in the
new Synod Hall. The prelates will not be housed in the Casa Santa Marta
residence until the eve of the beginning of the Conclave for various reasons,
including the fact that rooms are to be assigned by lot during the
congregations.
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