"I can only wait": Benedict's confidante comments on Francis' plans - on TV

The former private secretary of Pope Benedict XVI, Georg Gänswein, is looking for a new job.

Pope Francis is due to decide his future shortly.

According to his own statements, the former private secretary of Pope Benedict XVI, Georg Gänswein, still does not know what will happen to him in the Catholic Church.

A decision on his future task by Pope Francis is still pending, said the German Curial Archbishop on Sunday evening (April 16) on the TV show "Verissimo" on Canale 5.

"I'm curious": private secretary of Pope Benedict XVI.

waiting for new post

"I'm curious too.

I make no secret of the fact that I am curious as to when and what he will tell me.

I can only wait and see.” Gänswein assured that he would accept any new task that the pontiff wanted to give him.

"He's the pope.

I am his bishop's son who will accept what he wants to give me,” he said.

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Future of Georg Gänswein still open

Since the death of Benedict XVI.

On New Year's Eve 2022, the 66-year-old is waiting for Pope Francis to assign him a new task.

Since then, Francis has received Gänswein twice in an official private audience.

At the end of March, a Spanish media report led to speculation about Gänswein's possible transfer to Costa Rica as Vatican ambassador.

Neither the Holy See nor the German clergyman commented on the rumours.

Gänswein became Pope Cardinal Josef Ratzinger's private secretary in 2005 after his appointment.

The 66-year-old continued in this post after the Pope's retirement in 2013 until his death.