{"id":51496,"date":"2025-08-11T11:44:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/?p=51496"},"modified":"2026-04-28T12:15:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:15:52","slug":"unpublished-letter-of-benedict-xvi-my-resignation-is-full-and-valid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/actualidad\/carta-inedita-de-benedicto-xvi-mi-renuncia-es-plena-y-valida\/","title":{"rendered":"Benedict XVI's unpublished letter: \"My resignation is full and valid\"."},"content":{"rendered":"

Dated August 21, 2014, just over a year after he left the pontificate, the missive was addressed to the priest Nicola Bux and until now had remained unpublished. The letter is now distributed as an appendix to the book Reality and Utopia in the Church<\/em> (Reality and Utopia in the Church), by Monsignor Nicola Bux and Vito Palmiotti, with the aim of clarifying historical polemics on the legitimacy of Pope Francis' pontificate and closing debates on who was the \"real Pope\" in that period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the text, Benedict XVI responds to those who doubted his full dedication by renouncing not only the ministry, but also the munus petrino<\/em>that is, to the role and authority of the Pope as the Successor of Peter. He points out that to hold otherwise \"is contrary to clear dogmatic-canonical doctrine\" and criticizes the idea of a \"rampant schism\" as merely speculative and without foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fechada el 21 de agosto de 2014, poco m\u00e1s de un a\u00f1o despu\u00e9s de haber dejado el pontificado, la misiva fue dirigida al sacerdote Nicola Bux y hasta ahora hab\u00eda permanecido in\u00e9dita. La carta se difunde ahora como ap\u00e9ndice del libro Realt\u00e0 e Utopia nella Chiesa (Realidad y Utop\u00eda en la Iglesia), de Monse\u00f1or Nicola […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2425,"featured_media":51498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[36,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad","category-vaticano"],"yoast_head":"\nCarta in\u00e9dita de Benedicto XVI: \u201cMi renuncia es plena y v\u00e1lida\u201d - Omnes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Una carta in\u00e9dita del Papa em\u00e9rito Benedicto XVI ha sido publicada por primera vez, confirmando con nitidez la validez de su renuncia.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/news\/unpublished-letter-of-benedict-xvi-my-resignation-is-full-and-valid\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Carta in\u00e9dita de Benedicto XVI: \u201cMi renuncia es plena y v\u00e1lida\u201d - 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