Even the length of his papacy seemed like a prayer, burning with symbolic meaning: “seven years, ten months, and nine days,” as the Vatican stressed in the official announcement of Benedict XVI’s passing. Each of these numbers correspond to perfection, completion, rest — seven, ten, and nine, where nine triples the divine perfection of God’s triune natu…
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