On Tuesday morning (February 6, 2018), a letter arrived in the offices of the Italian daily newspaper La Corriere della Sera. The envelope was marked: Urgent, by hand. The correspondence was addressed to the Italian journalist Massimo Franco and bore the return address: Mater Ecclesiae Convent, V-120 Vatican City.
The letter was published the next day.
Dear Doctor Franco,
It moved me that so many readers of your newspaper wish to know how I spend this last period of my life.
In this connection, I can say that, in the slow decline of physical strength, interiorly, I am on pilgrimage towards Home.
It’s a great grace for me to be surrounded on this last end of the route, sometimes a bit tiring, by a love and kindness that I could never have imagined.
In this sense, I also consider your reader’s question as an accompaniment for this stage.
That’s why I can only thank you, assuring you all, from me, of my prayer.
Cordial greetings.
Benedict XVI
The letter was published the next day.
Typewritten letter of His Holiness, Benedict XVI
printed in La Corriere della Sera - February 7, 2018
Dear Doctor Franco,
It moved me that so many readers of your newspaper wish to know how I spend this last period of my life.
In this connection, I can say that, in the slow decline of physical strength, interiorly, I am on pilgrimage towards Home.
It’s a great grace for me to be surrounded on this last end of the route, sometimes a bit tiring, by a love and kindness that I could never have imagined.
In this sense, I also consider your reader’s question as an accompaniment for this stage.
That’s why I can only thank you, assuring you all, from me, of my prayer.
Cordial greetings.
Benedict XVI
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