
by Stefano Fontana
The suffered decision made by Benedict XVI to step down from the pontificate was immediately interpreted in many different ways, one of which was the version of desacralization: the papacy would have become an office like any other one, laicized, assumed for a given period of time and for a functional purpose. The Pope, “one of us. The nuovabq immediately warned against such interpretations, which, however, have spread far and wide, also within the Church and especially at the grassroots level through diocesan weeklies.