Postcard From A Benedict-Free Rome

Consigning the great Bavarian pope and theologian to the ages

I’m sorry I haven’t written in a week, friends, but after that last one, I had to take a little break. I went down to Rome for the funeral of Pope Benedict XVI. Though I haven’t been a Catholic for sixteen years, I dearly loved that man, and genuinely thought of him as the “second Benedict” of the Benedict Option. I spent the past few days immersed in b…