In this article, Elisabetta Povoledo writes about the pope Benedict XVI's retirement and how he is going to be "hidden to the world". First, he starts the essay by describing the pope's announcement. It was four days ago, and he is the first pope to step down willingly in almost 600 years. He said that even though he is retiring, he believes that he is going to be always close to the catholic people, and they are going to be close to him. Then the writer goes on by mentioning some problems that pope had in the past, that people think might be the reason why he is retiring. Father Lombardi, for example, confirmed that pope had had an accident in March and had hurt his head. Also Vatican confirmed that pope had cardinal problems and had changed his batteries some days ago. However, the pope denied all of those reasons, and said that these things did not impact his decisions. Then the Poveledo ends the article by writing about the Father Martin's opinion about the pope Benedict ( “This is a man of God who at the end of his public role transmits his vision of the church and relationship with the church") and about Benedicts stance towards the relationship between Catholic and Jewish faith.
The purpose of this article was to explain the pope's retirement, which has surprised many people. Like mentioned in the article, it is the first time in nearly 600 years, which is the reason why millions of people were in panic. The essay seems to be mostly to the Catholics, since they were the ones that were in panic. The writer seems to be trying to "calm down" the Catholics, by explaining about all kinds of rumors that people have been spreading about the reason why the pope wanted retirement. He explains that all of these rumors are not true, and mentions people such as Father Martin that says that pope is the man of God and still transmits his vision of the church and relationship with the church.
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