STORY: With a requiem in the Liebfrauendom, believers in Munich said farewell to the late Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday. taken. In his sermon, Cardinal Reinhard Marx praised the deceased as a “God seeker” and “passionate theologian”. The deceased left different impressions on churchgoers: “My memories of Pope Benedict XVI are of a man of the church who was a theorist. A gifted theologian, if you like, who certainly left his mark as pope. You don’t have everyone fallen. But they don’t have to. And I think we’ve lost a great Catholic.” “Well, what he didn’t mention in the will, he could have said beforehand. That’s what you do as a pope, as a pastor you don’t do it at all, that you secretly admit it somewhere. That doesn’t bother us all liked it so much.” Benedict XVI had an expert opinion on sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising between 1945 and 2019. accused of cover-up. He had rejected this in a statement published by the Vatican. Benedict XVI died in Rome on December 31, 2022 at the age of 95. Joseph Ratzinger, who came from Marktl in Upper Bavaria, headed the Archdiocese from 1977 to 1982. As Pope, he held the highest office in the Catholic Church for eight years. Led by Cardinal Marx, a delegation of around 30 from the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising will attend the funeral ceremonies for Benedict XVI. fly to Rome on Thursday.