Pope Francis has revealed in an interview released Sunday that he signed a letter of resignation in case of health impediments years ago and delivered it to the Vatican Secretariat of State.
ROME — Pope Francis has revealed in an interview released Sunday he signed a letter of resignation in case of health impediments years ago and delivered it to the Vatican Secretariat of State.with the Spanish newspaper ABC, the pontiff said that early in his pontificate he handed then-Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone a letter in which he declared that he would renounce in the event of serious and permanent health-related impediments.
“I don’t know who Bertone gave it to, but I gave it to him when he was secretary of state,” he added.
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