{"id":1780630,"date":"2022-12-19T17:18:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T22:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1780630"},"modified":"2022-12-19T17:19:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T22:19:00","slug":"pope-francis-says-he-wrote-resignation-note-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-francis-says-he-wrote-resignation-note-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis Says He Wrote Resignation Note In 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpope-francis-says-he-wrote-resignation-note-in-2013%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1780630&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>VATICAN CITY \u2014 Pope Francis signed a resignation letter in 2013 and then handed it over to then-Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, the pope told a Spanish news outlet on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The pope\u2019s comment was made during a wide-ranging interview with the Spanish outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.es\/sociedad\/papa-francisco-veces-posturas-inmaduras-aferran-hizo-20221218124801-nt.html\">ABC<\/a>, which covered topics from women in positions of leadership in the Church to traditional liturgy and the handling of the sex abuse crisis.<\/p>\n<p>When journalists asked about the \u201cdelicate topic\u201d of what could happen if he were suddenly disabled due to health or an accident, the pope responded, \u201cI have already signed my resignation. It was Tarcisio Bertone, the secretary of state \u2026 I signed it and told him, \u2018In case of impediment for medical reasons or whatever else I don\u2019t know, here is my resignation.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis continued, re-emphasizing that the Vatican secretary of state has control of the document, for use in case he was incapacitated. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey already have it. I don\u2019t know who Cardinal Bertone gave it to, but I gave it to him when he was Secretary of State.\u201d Pointing out that the pope had never revealed this in prior interviews, the pope stated he wanted it to be known. \u201cThat\u2019s why I say it. Now, someone will have to go ask (Cardinal) Bertone for it: \u201cGive me the piece of paper! (laughs). He surely handed it over to Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the new Secretary of State.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked if the position of \u201cemeritus pope,\u201d like that of Pope Benedict XVI, would be made a \u201cwell-defined statute,\u201d the pope replied, \u201cNo. I\u2019ve not touched that at all, nor has the idea crossed my mind. It seems the Holy Spirit has no interest in me taking care of such things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In July 2021, the 86-year-old Pope Francis underwent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/explaining-pope-francis-surgery-b4765f3c8d70ebb3039b87a33366ac19\">surgery<\/a> to remove a large portion of his left colon, leaving the hospital <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/news\/pope-francis-will-stay-longer-in-hospital-vatican-says\">10 days later<\/a>. It was later reported that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/aleteia.org\/2022\/05\/24\/i-dont-want-surgery-pope-declares-in-discussing-knee\/\">disagreeable side-effects<\/a>\u201c of the general anesthesia left the Roman Pontiff unwilling to undergo further operations, particularly on his knee. He has been seen either with a cane or wheelchair-bound since Easter of this year.<\/p>\n<p>His deteriorating health has led to several false reports and rumors that Pope Francis is imminently dying. Unsubstantiated reporting has been left mostly unchecked by the Vatican, leading to reports such as one by Newsmax <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/platinum\/vatican-pope-francis-health-conclave\/2021\/12\/07\/id\/1047663\/\">last December<\/a> (which has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NEWSMAX\/status\/1468237821458718726?s=20&#038;t=QDHe9dDgQiDBo8PwmNnntg\">yet to be retracted by Newsmax<\/a>) or a viral tweet from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/megynkelly\/status\/1538810945144770560\">Megyn Kelly<\/a>, claiming media presence and increased clergy in the Vatican was due to \u201creports\u201d of a pending resignation of the pope.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that Pope Francis has left little doubt about his intentions, at least in case of incapacitation, during this interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VATICAN CITY \u2014 Pope Francis signed a resignation letter in 2013 and then handed it over to then-Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, the pope told a Spanish news outlet on Saturday.\u00a0 The pope\u2019s comment was made during a wide-ranging interview with the Spanish outlet ABC, which covered topics from women in positions of leadership in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":1780633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[10415,6202,9590,3671,9592,6522,6195,9461],"class_list":["post-1780630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-10415","tag-daily","tag-francis","tag-note","tag-pope","tag-resignation","tag-wire","tag-wrote"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1780630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1780633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}