Benedict, a 89-year-old German, remained without a stick for part of a service in a Vatican corridor to check the 65th commemoration of his appointment to the ministry.
In any case, Benedict, in his first open remarks within the sight of his successor, appeared to experience issues affirming a couple words as he expressed gratitude toward Francis and a little gathering of cardinals in Italian.
In 2013 Benedict, refering to wellbeing reasons, turned into the principal pope to leave in somewhere in the range of 600 years, finishing a papacy of almost eight years set apart by an outrage based on spilled archives that claimed debasement and fumble in the Vatican.
He has subsequent to been living in relative seclusion in a religious circle in the Vatican plants and has made just a modest bunch of brief open appearances, more often than not at significant Church services together with Francis, for example, the inauguration of new cardinals.
On Sunday, addressing correspondents on board his plane while coming back from a visit to Armenia, Francis was gotten some information about reports that Benedict was a kind of parallel pope, as yet practicing impact.
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| Former pope Benedict (R) is greeted by Pope Francis during a ceremony to mark his 65th anniversary of ordination to the priesthood at the Vatican June 28, 2016 |
Francis, who has contrasted Benedict's nearness in the Vatican with having an "insightful old granddad" at home, said he had heard that when some Church authorities had gone to Benedict to gripe that Francis was excessively liberal, Benedict "asked them to take a hike".
(Reporting by Philip Pullella; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
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