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In his spiritual testamentThe German-born late popemorning in his residence at the Vatican’s Mater Ecclesiae Monastery at the age of 95.
In the spiritual testament dated August 29, 2006, Benedict XVI spoke of the “many reasons” he had to be thankful for his life.He described the “dark and tiring stretches” of his path as a necessary experience for his salvation and thanked God for picking him whenever he began to “slip”.“If at this late hour of my life I look back over the decades I have been living, I first see how many reasons I have to give thanks.
Born in Germany when the country was only struggling to recover from the first World War, the former Pope thanked his parents who raised him in such a difficult time and spoke affectionately of his siblings. Although, he acknowledged that “faith too has learned to better understand the limit of the scope of its claims” because of natural science, he reminded the church that he had seen science offer “apparent certainties against the faith” only to see them vanish, “proving not to be science, but philosophical interpretations only apparently pertaining to science”.
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