My recent meeting with Pope Emeritus Benedict was one of my life’s great honors

don Elvir Tabaković, Can.Reg. August 14, 2019 (www.lifesitenews.com) – We were thrilled with joy when Pope Benedict’s private secretary, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, kindly informed us that the Pope emeritus accepted our request to visit him and invited us for a private audience in his current residence at the monastery Mater Ecclesiæ in the Vatican gardens. Our first encounter with Archbishop Gänswein was a little over three years ago, when he ordained don Johannes to the priesthood. This was his first priestly ordination as archbishop. This year he also ordained our new young priest, don Fabian, who together with his brother don Patrick regularly visits Pope Benedict’s brother Msgr. Georg Ratzinger in Regensburg and reads aloud books and publications, which the 95-year-old monsignor cannot read on his own, due to his very poor eyesight. After one of these reading sessions, we made a photographic portrait of him, which in the end made it into the hands of his brother, Pope Benedict, who …