Please note, this episode was recorded prior to the death of Pope Benedict XVI.

On this episode, your hosts look at Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI's gracious and insightful letter to participants in an October 2022 conference at Franciscan University convened to study and discuss the thought of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI. The Deacon and the Doc especially tried to use this letter to get a sense of the late pope's sense of Vatican II's legacy and of the Church's life in the current moment.