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Welcome back, professor Ratzinger. Benedict’s legacy

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 18 febbraio 2013 · 5 Comments · In Benedict XVI

In front of the Roman clergy, he spoke for one hour off-the-cuff, with no hesitation and with a certain serenity. And he denounced one of the “issues” with the Church, probably for him the pivotal one. Which is that there had been two Second Vatican Councils: one of the Fathers [...]

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In a letter to Child Jesus, Ratzinger’s life agenda. Which the Pope restated in his most recent speech to the Curia

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 24 dicembre 2012 · 1 Comment · In Benedict XVI

«Dear Child Jesus, soon you will descend on earth. You will bring joy to children, and I will be joyful, too». This is the beginning of a 1934 Christmas letter, as reported by the web site korazym.org. The author was a 7 years old child. It was scripted in Sütterlinschrift, the typical italic [...]

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True, the Church is 200 years out of date. But not the way you may think.

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 22 ottobre 2012 · 1 Comment · In Vatican

The Church is 200 hundred years out of date. Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini’s words in his last interview have travelled the world.  Interpretations multiplied.  In what, exactly, is the Church out of date? Is it because of the issue of communion and divorcees – even when the Pope wrote comprehensively about it [...]

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Joseph Ratzinger, the man of Faith turns 85

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 16 aprile 2012 · 1 Comment · In Benedict XVI

Joseph Ratzinger was Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith when – in October 2003 – he gave an interview to the German Newspaper Die Tagespost. In that interview, Ratzinger issued the warning for «an unilateral academization of Theology». In Germany, Faculties of Theology are established in the State universities. [...]

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The Gospel leads to adult Faith. A look on Benedict XVI’s Papacy

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 27 febbraio 2012 · 2 Comments · In Benedict XVI

To be adult faithful. Not to be slave of the dictatorship of the public opinion. In the midst of the utter chatters and the leaks, Benedict XVI meets the priests of the dioceses of Rome. He never talks about scandals, and it is obvious, since he gives a lectio divina, a “divine lesson”. [...]

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Will the prayer save the spirit of Assisi?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 10 ottobre 2011 · Leave a Comment · In church

What is the difference a day can make? Right after September, 11 this single question – issued for the first times during the Seventies in a song by Esther Phillips – had been made hundreds, thousands and millions of times. Was what happened in New York in September, 11 really able to change [...]

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Bite and devour. A story of false clericalism.

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 30 maggio 2011 · 1 Comment · In church

«Do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants of one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself’. But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you are not consumed by one another. » [...]

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