The pope’s decision to step aside to make way for a new and almost surely younger pope was seen Monday as another manifestation of his fierce generosity and goodwill.
“As a Christian and as a Catholic, one can’t help but be moved and touched by this,” German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said at a news conference in Berlin, according to Reuters. “He has left a very personal signature as a thinker at the head of the Church, and also as a shepherd.”
The words fierce and generosity together are striking.
…Curious. The wording is obviously a bit too much,even overkill.. so much so, that it almost appears to me to be spin. im just sayin