However, what impressed me was that even before the conclave, many cardinals have exhorted the one who would be elected, so to speak, saying he must — even if he doesn’t feel up to taking the cross upon himself — submit himself to the two-thirds majority, and see that decision as a sign. This is his inner duty. It is worked out with so much gravity and dignity that I believed, if the majority of the cardinals really elect me, the Lord is electing me, and then I must accept it.

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The cardinals have voted, so the one chosen must undertake this task. And it isn’t the judgment of journalists that matters, but the judgment of the loving God.

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Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

“The Last Testament”, p. 5

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