Cardinal Pell about Benedict: Wonderful Stage Comes to An End
Cardinal Pell was surprised at his own sadness in the wake of Benedict XVI's death (EWTN.com, January 3). He still expected the doctors to be able to prolong his life a bit.
“I have known him well enough, I thought he was very good for the Church, it was sad to see another wonderful stage in Church history ending.”
Pell describes Benedict as gentle and pious and the complete opposite of the "absurd" caricatures of the oligarch media that Ratzinger, a highly intelligent man, must have been "amused" by because they were irrelevant and so far from the truth.
For Pell, a pope needs not to be a great preacher, star, leader, administrator or politician, but the pope has "a scriptural role." Pell calls him "the successor of Peter" [a title, Francis has trashed], "foundation of the Church," "guarantor that the people in the pews are receiving the same teachings that Christ to the apostles gave."
The pope also guarantees that the unity of the Church, 1.4 billion Catholics, is built "around the figure of Christ.”
Benedict did, was he was supposed to, Pell believes: “Strengthen the Faith of his brothers, not to entertain the non-believers or those who have rejected what we are about.”
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“I have known him well enough, I thought he was very good for the Church, it was sad to see another wonderful stage in Church history ending.”
Pell describes Benedict as gentle and pious and the complete opposite of the "absurd" caricatures of the oligarch media that Ratzinger, a highly intelligent man, must have been "amused" by because they were irrelevant and so far from the truth.
For Pell, a pope needs not to be a great preacher, star, leader, administrator or politician, but the pope has "a scriptural role." Pell calls him "the successor of Peter" [a title, Francis has trashed], "foundation of the Church," "guarantor that the people in the pews are receiving the same teachings that Christ to the apostles gave."
The pope also guarantees that the unity of the Church, 1.4 billion Catholics, is built "around the figure of Christ.”
Benedict did, was he was supposed to, Pell believes: “Strengthen the Faith of his brothers, not to entertain the non-believers or those who have rejected what we are about.”
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