Archbishop Georg Gänswein feels a great emptiness, pain and loss at the death of Benedict XVI, he told the German Bild.de (9 March).
Gänswein consoles himself with the hope that Benedict is now in heaven. Most of his estate, books and manuscripts, went to the Regensburg Institute Pope Benedict XVI, correspondence with his predecessor or important personal documents to the archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Gänswein "shredded" private letters in accordance with Benedict's last will. He continues to live in the Vatican, 70 metres from Francis as the crow flies, in a former hospice and denies that there is an ice age between him and Francis, "No, much of what was written is simply invented."
Francis has granted him two "fruitful audiences", he said. Gänswein said it was fine for him that no decision has been made "yet" on a future assignment.
Gänswein spoke to Benedict about his book last autumn: "Why is this important to you?" Benedict asked. Gänswein replied that …More