Benedict XVI’s lesson to those who govern. Mantovano speaks, Meloni’s right arm

“Ratzinger called Europe to defend the West, understood as self-awareness”. The teaching of the Pope Emeritus in three words: humility, Christianity, the West

“Many, even among Catholics, opposed Pope Benedict as long as he was alive. They have made slanderous suspicions and slanderous allegations about him. They portrayed him as a reactionary, with the windows closed and the anti-intrusion systems permanently activated. I hope that the regret that so many of them have expressed for his passing is the start of the effective rediscovery of his pontificate and his works”. The melancholy that radiates from the funeral in the Vatican becomes, in the words of Alfredo Mantovanothe spark of a reflection, sometimes spiritual, sometimes intimate but eminently political, on the legacy of Ratzinger’s pontificate.