The late pope Benedict XVI resigned in 2013 mainly because of years of insomnia, according to a media report. The pope emeritus, as he was known after he resigned, wrote this to his biographer Peter Seewald in a letter shortly before his death at the end of 2022. In the letter, which was made available to the German news magazine Focus, the “central motive” for the resignation “was the insomnia that had accompanied me continuously since the World Youth Day in Cologne.” According to the report, the Bavarian-born priest had had sleeping problems since 2005. The medicines he was prescribed initia…