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Benedict XVI Made Secret Trips

Officially, after his resignation, Benedict XVI always lived in Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican gardens.

However, Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, 75, a Francis’ partisan and former Albano Bishop, told Corriere.it (January 7) that Benedict made secret trips to the papal summer residence near Castel Gandolfo above Lake Albano.

According to Semeraro, Benedict XVI loved the residence so much that he occasionally had himself taken there by car.

Francis has never spent time at Castel Gandolfo which is now a museum.

Picture: © Mazur/cbcew.org.uk, CC BY-NC-ND, #newsQyceixkohh



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Kenjiro M. Yoshimori
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"Francis has never spent time at Castel Gandolfo which is now a museum." This isn't totally correct. It is still the Papal summer villa. The next Pope can use it whenever he wants, and loser Francis could use it too. Part of it is open as a museum......just like Buckingham Palace. But it is still the Papal summer Palace, and the next Pope could go there for all Summer if he wished....like all Popes …More
"Francis has never spent time at Castel Gandolfo which is now a museum." This isn't totally correct. It is still the Papal summer villa. The next Pope can use it whenever he wants, and loser Francis could use it too. Part of it is open as a museum......just like Buckingham Palace. But it is still the Papal summer Palace, and the next Pope could go there for all Summer if he wished....like all Popes except Bergoglio have done. If he had his choice, Francis would probably prefer living in a favela (a slum neighborhood) in a tin roofed shack.
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Well, it was the Pope's summer palace, so...
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