Pope Francis has been working in his predecessor's shadow, says the Vatican's most senior British official.
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is welcomed by Pope Francis at St Peter's Square, Vatican, 2014Pope Benedict was still a "powerful presence" in the Vatican despite his retirement - the most senior British figure there has told the BBC.
It is rare for a senior Vatican figure to have spoken frankly about the relationship between the two popes. Observers of Vatican affairs during this unusual time suggest that whether Benedict courted it or not, he became something of a lightning rod for internal criticism of Pope Francis. Over the past year, there has been much discussion here about the health of Pope Francis, who has cancelled some foreign trips on health grounds and spent most of his time in a wheelchair during other visits.
That is partly, as Archbishop Gallagher acknowledges, because of Benedict XVI's style of papacy, being viewed as more of a thinker than a pastor or a skilled politician.
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