Benedict XVI the Precedent Setting Pope

The Catholic Church has a tradition of selecting elderly “caretaker popes” who end up being “history making popes.” When Pope John XXIII suddenly called the Second Vatican Council the church was turned upside down. When Benedict XVI created the Anglican Ordinariate he made history. Never before had a new structure
Source: Standing on my Head by Fr. Dwight Longenecker  

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