Benedict's consistency

When he resigned in 2013, Pope Benedict XVI stressed that he had previously repeatedly examined his conscience before God. To carry out his ministry well, he said, the strength of the body and that of the spirit were necessary, "a strength that has diminished in me in recent months to such an extent that I must recognize my inability to continue to carry out well the ministry entrusted to me." - Could he not delegate more consistently to specialists the elimination of problems in the Vatican that were beside the central task? Examination of conscience always includes the question of one's own culpability. - Pope Benedict's earlier statements on "conscience and responsibility" suggest considering whether failures to fulfill the central ministry might not have come to the fore in his examination of conscience. His handling of the HIV/AIDS problem is marked by a failure to e.