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« Reply #200 on: June 19, 2015, 04:48:14 PM »

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/summorum-pontificum-conference-celebrates-benedict-xvis-liturgical-legacy-62040/

Summorum Pontificum Conference celebrates Benedict XVI's liturgical legacy

Rome, Italy, Jun 19, 2015 / 07:07 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The fourth annual Summorum Pontificum Conference was held last Saturday in Rome to promote the understanding and use of the extraordinary form of the Roman rite, and to discuss the liturgical heritage of Benedict XVI.

Benedict issued the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum in 2007, acknowledging clearly the right of all priests of the Roman rite to say Mass using the Roman Missal of 1962 – the form of the Mass used prior to the reforms which followed the Second Vatican Council.

The fourth annual conference to celebrate the document was held June 13 and centered on the theme, “A Treasure for the Whole Church.”

“In this moment of theological reflection we wanted to make the liturgical treasures of the Church known, eight years after the publication of Benedict XVI’s document,” explained Fr. Vincenzo Nuara, OP, in an interview with CNA June 13.

“In the past years, as this year, we have tried to deepen theological and liturgical topics which attain to the Latin Gregorian liturgy. We wanted to create a basis of study, of research, and of debate for young theologians, and to make known the treasure of this liturgy.”

The conference took place in Rome’s Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, commonly called the Angelicum.

To close the meeting, a solemn pontifical Mass was said the following day by Cardinal Velasio De Paolis in the Holy Sacrament chapel of St. Peter’s Basilica.
 
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« Reply #201 on: July 04, 2015, 11:57:43 PM »

http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/the-vatican/detail/articolo/benedetto-xvi-benedict-xvi-benedicto-xvi-42166/

07/ 4/2015
Pope-emeritus Benedict XVI receives honorary doctorates


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Pope-emeritus Benedict XVI received Doctorates honoris causa on Saturday from the Pontifical John Paul II University of Krakow and the Krakow Academy of Music. The motivation for the honors issued by the University’s Academic Senate specifies five contributions Pope Benedict has made to knowledge and culture: his great respect for the musical tradition of the Church and remarkable sensitivity to the music of faith; the life-long and constant demonstration of a special concern for the noble beauty of sacred music and its proper place in the celebration of the sacred liturgical rites of the Church; his constant insistence on the didactic importance of the via pulchritudinis – the way of beauty – which can become a way of knowing and worshiping God for the modern man; his lifelong commitment to Truth, which strengthens the Christian faith in times of spiritual confusion caused by liberalism, postmodernism and relativism, and his tireless efforts to restore the spiritual dimension of Europe; his kind support for the work of transforming the schools of the Pontifical Academy of Theology into the Pontifical John Paul II University.

In remarks prepared for the occasion, and delivered on July 4th at Castel Gandolfo, Pope-emeritus Benedict XVI said, “In the Constitution on the Liturgy of the II Vatican Council,  it is very clearly written: ‘The treasure of sacred music is to be preserved and fostered with great care. (114)’ On the other hand, the text highlights the actuosa participatio of the faithful in the sacred action as a fundamental liturgical category. Those two things, which in the text of the Constitution remain together and at peace with each other, were in the implementation of the Council, often in a relationship of dramatic tension. Significant areas of the Liturgical Movement believed that, in the future, there would be room for the great choral works and even for orchestral Masses only in concert halls, not in the liturgy. [In the liturgy], there could be space only for the singing and common prayer of the faithful. On the other hand, there was shock at the cultural impoverishment of the Church that would necessarily result from this. How to reconcile the two? How to implement the Council in its entirety? These were the questions that were particularly striking to me and to many other believers, to simple people, no less than to persons in possession of a theological education.”
 
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« Reply #202 on: July 26, 2015, 05:47:15 PM »

http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/the-vatican/detail/articolo/matini-martini-martini-benedetto-xvi-benedict-xvi-benedicto-xvi-42410/

07/18/2015
Martini: Benedict XVI’s resignation and the 2005 Conclave

Benedict XVI with Cardinal Martini

The disclosures made by the Jesuit Biblicist, Fr. Silvano Fausti, Carlo Maria Martini’s confessor and spiritual guide, who passed away on 24 June, have turned the spotlight back onto the role played by the formed Archbishop of Milan in the 2005 Conclave that elected Benedict XVI Pope. In a video interview published on Italian news website Gli Stati Generali, Fausti talked about two moments. One was Ratzinger’s resignation and the last conversation with Martini on 2 June 2012 in Milan, on the occasion of the World Meeting of Families. The Jesuit cardinal, who was seriously ill with Parkinson’s (he died three months later), met Ratzinger in the archbishop’s residence in the early afternoon.
 
http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-original-story-when-jesuit-cardinal.html
The Original Story: When the Jesuit Cardinal told Pope Benedict XVI he had to Resign
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« Reply #203 on: July 28, 2015, 06:27:22 PM »

http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/the-vatican/detail/articolo/polisca-francesco-francisco-francis-42568/

07/28/2015
Polisca remains Ratzinger’s doctor but not Francis’


Polisca with Ratzinger (Photo by Il Sismografo)
Pope Francis will soon be in the care of a new personal doctor  and the Vatican City will have a new health services director. Patrizio Polisca is leaving his post as director of  Vatican Health Services and as such will no longer be Francis’ personal physician. He will, however continue his service as private physician to the Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and will also hold onto other roles he holds in the Vatican, including his position in the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. He will also continue to reside in the Vatican. The director of the Holy See Press Office, Fr. Federico Lombardi clarified this in a statement to journalists who asked him about certain speculations about Polisca’s alleged “ousting” from the Vatican. Accoridng to the information at hand, the doctor was informed about the change-over at the end of May and was expected to leave his post at the end of July.

“Regarding the speculations in the Italian press this morning, I would like to clarify that Patrizio Polisca's five-year term of service as director of the Vatican Health Services has ended. A rotation (of directors) is to be considered normal, based on regulations for directorial lay personnel in the Holy See and Vatican City.” “Polisca,” Fr. Lombardi emphasised, “will continue his invaluable service, as Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s personal physician and will continue to reside in the Vatican.”
 
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« Reply #204 on: July 30, 2015, 10:23:19 PM »

http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/benedict-xvi-celebrates-mass-with-elderly-priest-of-vatican-parish-of-st-anne-s

Benedict XVI Celebrates Mass With Elderly Priest of Vatican Parish of St. Anne’s
Rome,  July 30, 2015

Benedict XVI on Tuesday concelebrated Mass with a priest who is marking the 70th anniversary of his ordination.

The priest, Father Gioele Schiavella, was formerly the pastor at the papal parish of St. Anne, which is located within Vatican City.

Father Schiavella, known for his short and profound sermons, will be 93 in September. For his anniversary, he was invited to concelebrate Mass with Benedict XVI on Tuesday in the chapel of the Mater Ecclesia convent, where the Pope Emeritus leads his life of retirement and prayer inside the Vatican.

Together with them were the other priests who work in the parish of St. Anne: the present Italian Augustinian parish priest, Bruno Silvestrini, Filipino Stefano Canuto, and Latin American Jafet Ramon Ortega.

At the end of the Mass, the Pope Emeritus gave each one of them a Rosary, and to Father Schiavella his book, “Heralds of the Word and Servants of Joy,” as well as a basket of fruit for the Community. 

The parish has a long history and is close to one of the entrance gates of Vatican City, which enables the public to enter it without having to pass through the security gates of the Swiss Guards or the Vatican Gendarmerie
 
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« Reply #205 on: November 19, 2015, 09:27:54 PM »

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/latest-ratzinger-prizes-highlight-lebanese-and-brazilian-gifts-to-theology-34870/

Latest Ratzinger Prizes highlight Lebanese and Brazilian gifts to theology

Vatican City, Nov 18, 2015 / 06:03 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A Brazilian priest and a Lebanese scholar were awarded on Monday the 2015 Ratzinger Prizes, in recognition of their work in theology.

“With these two figures, the list of theologians who have deservedly received the Ratzinger Prizes is further enriched not only quantitatively, but also qualitatively,” Archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, S.J., secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said Nov. 16.

The two honorees were announced during a press conference at the Holy See Press Office.
 
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« Reply #206 on: November 19, 2015, 09:34:36 PM »

http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/11/19/teutonic_college_hosts_ratzinger_library_inauguration/1187906

Teutonic College hosts Ratzinger Library Inauguration
19/11/2015 08:15

(Vatican Radio) The official inauguration of the Library Biblioteca Romana Joseph Ratzinger – Benedetto XVI – dedicated to the life and the thought of the Pope Emeritus as a scholar and a Pontiff - was held on Wednesday evening at the Pontifical Teutonic College.

Before becoming Pope, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger celebrated Mass every week at the College, which serves the German-speaking community and is located on the Vatican grounds.

The library is a collection of more than 1000 books in 36 languages provided by Pope emeritus Benedict XVI, by the Libreria Editrice Vaticana, by the Vatican Foundation, and by the Papst Benedikt XVI Institute of Regensburg.

Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, the President of the Pontifical Council of Culture, began the evening with an academic lecture at the nearby Augustinian Patristic Institute, entitled “From the Bible to the Library – Benedict XVI and the Culture of the Word of God."
 
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« Reply #207 on: December 08, 2015, 08:38:56 PM »

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/its-time-to-rediscover-gods-mercy-pope-says-at-jubilee-launch-77943/

It’s time to rediscover God’s mercy, Pope says at Jubilee launch

Pope Francis prays after opening the Holy Door in St. Peters Basilica Dec. 8, 2015 launching the extraordinary jubilee of mercy. Credit: LOsservatore Romano
Vatican City, Dec 8, 2015 / 04:50 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis has officially commenced the Jubilee of Mercy, calling those who pass through the newly-opened Holy Door to rediscover God’s mercy and experience the mystery of his love.

“This Extraordinary Holy Year is itself a gift of grace,” Pope Francis said in his homily for Mass, just before opening the Holy Door in St. Peter’s Basilica.
 
Pope Francis presided over the rite of the Holy Door’s opening before passing through himself. He was followed by retired pontiff Benedict XVI, who attended the rite in one of his rare public appearances.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNhBeZrI_Js
Benedetto XVI Varca la Porta Santa per Giubileo della Misericordia
Published on Dec 8, 2015
Benedetto XVI Varca la Porta Santa per Giubileo della Misericordia
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« Reply #208 on: December 08, 2015, 08:42:48 PM »

October 8, 2015 Tweets

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Another Jubilee first – B16 crossing Holy Door immediately after his successor....

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« Reply #209 on: December 21, 2015, 03:20:18 PM »

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/pope-emeritus-makes-rare-appearance-to-thank-visiting-bavarians

Pope Emeritus Makes Rare Appearance to Thank Visiting Bavarians
by Edward Pentin  12/21/2015

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Bavarian dignitaries singing a German Christmas carol outside his residence on Friday. 
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Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has made a rare public appearance to thank civil and ecclesiastical authorities from Bavaria for donating this year’s Vatican Christmas tree.

Speaking to the dignitaries outside his Mater Ecclesiae residence in the Vatican on Friday (see video here), Benedict said the lighting of the 82 foot spruce represents the light of God’s friendship to mankind which, he stressed, was especially important at this time.

“The tree tells us that God is our friend and that we are therefore friends and siblings with each other,” he said, according to Vatican Radio's German edition. “So this is a message that we need right now when there is such a threat of hostility and terror.”
 

A short video...
https://www.facebook.com/RadioVatikanDeutsch/videos/vb.1006999125979090/1109603572385311/?type=2&theater
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« Reply #210 on: December 31, 2015, 01:39:07 PM »

http://www.news.va/en/news/concert-for-pope-emeritus-benedict-xvi

Concert for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
2015-12-31 Vatican Radio

(Vatican Radio) The “Hall of Assumption” in the Vatican Radio studios located in the Vatican Gardens on Wednesday afternoon hosted a special musical performance. It included a special member of the audience too – Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

The German choir “Jugendkantorei of Eichstatt Dom”, directed by Master Christian Heiss, is made up of 36 young people between the ages of 12 and 18 years. They are in Rome to attend the 40th International Congress of Young Singers.

The concert program, inspired by Christmas themes, included pieces by Mendelssohn, Brahms and Benjamin Britten. The carol "O du fröhliche” was actually arranged by Mgr. Georg Ratzinger, brother of the Pope Emeritus, who was also present at the concert, along with Mgr. Georg Gaenswein, Prefect of the Papal Household and Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, former nuncio in Germany.
 
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« Reply #211 on: January 03, 2016, 04:12:28 PM »

http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2015/clear-and-colorful-a-common-property-in-unscripted-papal-preaching.cfm

Clear and colorful: A common property in unscripted papal preaching
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
12.30.2015 2:09 PM ET

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The god of Mammon, who is "like a wild animal, trying to clutch me with his talons and enslave me," and people not open to the Holy Spirit, who "are like swamps that give off foul-smelling gases," are just a few of the analogies that appear in the latest collection of papal homilies.

Rigid doctors of the law "imagine God as a kind of really strict school teacher who assigned humanity homework that only very few are able to do. For the majority, the notebook of life will be handed back with the grade: 'Poor!'"

If it sounds like the usual fare from Pope Francis, it is strongly similar, but the author in this case was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI.

Never-before published, the 10 homilies are informal, colorful, off-the-cuff reflections that seek to make the mystery, relevance and force of the faith clear and inspirational to everyday Catholics in a small Bavarian parish. The 100-page book -- currently available only in Italian -- is titled, "The Homilies of Pentling," the German village where the cardinal vacationed and kept a home he had hoped to retire to one day.

"Apart from a few small corrections, I kept the familiar style of the text just as it flowed out back then," the retired pope wrote in the book's preface. He said he hoped the homilies, taken from transcribed audio recordings between 1986 and 1999, would help not just "my fellow citizens of Pentling," but all readers in "understanding and living the word of the Gospel."

While Pope Francis consistently crafts clever, memorable metaphors in his writings and talks, many people don't remember that Pope Benedict was quite good at it, too.
 
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« Reply #212 on: February 11, 2016, 05:54:45 PM »

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/This-Day-in-History---February-11_51074

This Day in History - February 11
Thursday, February 11, 2016 
   

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

2013: Pope Benedict XVI does what no pope has done in more than half a millennium, announcing his resignation and sending the already troubled Roman Catholic church scrambling to replace the leader of its one billion followers.
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« Reply #213 on: February 11, 2016, 06:05:58 PM »

http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2016/02/11/three-years-ago-brought-historys-greatest-act-of-papal-humility/

Three years ago brought history’s greatest act of papal humility
By John L. Allen Jr.
Associate editor | February 11, 2016

By sheer coincidence, I was in Rome on Feb. 11, 2013. My wife and I had already moved back to the United States from Rome, but on that date I had returned to give a talk on religious freedom at the Italian Foreign Ministry, which is why I happened to be in town when the announcement of Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation was made.
 
Benedict was the first pope to renounce his powers, not in the teeth of schism, foreign armies, or internal power struggles, but rather as the result of an honest self-examination that he simply wasn’t up to the demands of the office any longer.

Granted, some Italians believe Benedict stepped down because of a leaks scandal involving secret documents stolen by his former butler, or as the result of pressure from a nefarious insider lobby in the Vatican opposed to his efforts at “purification.” Benedict and those close to him, however, have consistently rejected those explanations, and in any event they don’t make his decision any less voluntary.

Despite Benedict’s reputation as an arch-conservative, this was a deeply innovative thing to do. Over the years, I’d consulted experts on the papacy in Rome who felt it was inconceivable, not to mention theologically impossible, for a pope to resign.

“My God,” one of those experts once told me. “Can you imagine a resigned pope? He might as well be the Archbishop of Canterbury!”

In truth, Benedict never got credit for the real humility he exuded throughout his life, including his eight-year run as pope.

Here’s a classic example: Shortly after the election of Pope Francis in March 2013, the new pontiff returned to the Rome residence where he’d stayed prior to the conclave, the Casa del Clero, in order to pack his own bag and pay his own bill. That episode became part of the “humble pope” narrative that has surrounded Francis ever since.

Know what Pope Benedict did after his election?

He returned to his apartment in Rome’s Piazza Leonina to pack his own bag, which he ported himself back to the papal quarters. His apartment was on the same floor with the residences of three other cardinals, and as he left, Benedict rang their doorbells to thank the startled nuns who acted as the household staffs for being such good neighbors.

(As a footnote, several of those sisters were Americans, members of the Mercy Sisters of Alma.)

Why does the story about Francis become legend, while the other about Benedict is almost forgotten? Because Benedict carried a bad narrative into the papacy, while Francis had the good luck to be able to shape his own.

In truth, those who’ve had the chance to interact with Benedict generally believe that no public figure in the modern era has suffered from a more dramatic disjunction between public image and private personality. In public, Benedict was seen as aloof and autocratic; in private, he came off as kind, gentle, and shy.

History will almost certainly portray Benedict in a kinder light than contemporary accounts. In the meantime, Church officials might want to consider marking Feb. 11 as the “Feast of Holy Humility”, because no matter what happens from here on out, they’re unlikely to get a better example at a higher level.
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« Reply #214 on: February 11, 2016, 06:18:46 PM »

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/the-silent-reform-of-benedict-xvis-papacy-54175/

The silent reform of Benedict XVI's papacy
By Elise Harris

Vatican City, Feb 11, 2016 / 02:29 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In his new book on Benedict XVI, Vatican journalist Marco Mancini argues that while the retired pontiff became known for his shocking resignation three years ago, his real legacy began far earlier.

“Unfortunately, we remember Benedict for the great gesture of the renunciation, but if we go on remembering Benedict only for that act, it would not be doing a service to truth of the facts,” Mancini told CNA.

Neither would it be a service to history, to his pontificate or his person, “because he really in eight years confronted the totality of the themes and the emergencies that the Catholic Church lived.”

Benedict XVI's Feb. 11, 2013, announcement of his resignation from the papacy – exactly three years ago today – hit the Church “light a lightning bolt in a clear blue sky,” said one cardinal who was present in the room when the pontiff stunned the Vatican and the rest of the world with his decision.

But in his book “Benedict XVI: Un Papa Totale,” translating roughly as “Benedict XVI: a Complete Pope,” Mancini, 33, said Benedict's most memorable act was not his resignation, but everything he did to carry the Church through the many difficult and varied crises it endured during his eight-year reign.

The book, which as of now is only available in Italian, was presented at the Vatican's Teutonic College Feb. 5. Speakers at the event included Mancini, Angela Ambrogetti – editor of CNA's Italian edition ACI Stampa – as well as Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, prefect of the Pontifical Household.

Archbishop Gaenswein told CNA that in his opinion, Benedict XVI's greatest legacy “is yet to be discovered,” but that an important one we can see now “the personal and theological witness of a man who is a great theologian, but who did theology in a very, very humble way.”

The “silent reform” Benedict carried out is centered on the way he guided and governed the Church, “above all with clarity, but above all with his fine theology,” the archbishop said.
 
In terms of the resistance Benedict faced, Mancini said he believes it is the same “lobby” that is resisting Francis' process of reform.

“I think there is a lot of continuity between the two, whether it's among whoever tries to hinder the process of reform, or the way of reforming the Church,” he said, because Pope Francis “is continuing the same work that Pope Benedict started.”

“So I realize in speaking with many people, there's a need to thank Benedict more for what he did for the Catholic Church.”

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« Reply #215 on: February 23, 2016, 09:31:42 PM »

http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2016/02/23/theological__pastoral_perspectives,__deus_caritas_est/1210691

Theological and pastoral perspectives, a decade after "Deus caritas est"
23/02/2016 17:12

(VIS) An international conference entitled "Love will never end. Prospects ten years on from the Encyclical Deus caritas est" will be held on Thursday 25 February in the Vatican's New Synod Hall. Organised by the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum", the conference forms part of the programme of events for the Jubilee of Mercy and has the aim of examining in depth the theological and pastoral implications of Pope Benedict XVI's first Encyclical for today's world, especially in relation to the activity of those who work in the Church's charitable service. The event will be attended by, among others, representatives of the episcopal conferences and Catholic charitable organisations from all over the world.
 
Holy Mass will be celebrated on 25 and 26 February at 6 p.m. in the Church of Santa Maria della Pietŕ in Camposanto dei Teutonici (Our Lady of Mercy in the German Cemetery). On the first day Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes, president emeritus of "Cor Unum"; will preside, and on the second, Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.

The conference will be fully broadcast by web streaming on the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum" website.
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The link for Pontifical Council "Cor Unum" website:  http://www.corunumjubilaeum.va/content/corunumexpo/en.html
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« Reply #216 on: February 26, 2016, 05:55:06 PM »

http://www.news.va/en/news/benedict-xvi-centre-roots-of-culture-bridges-of-di

Benedict XVI Centre: roots of culture, bridges of discourse
2016-02-26 Vatican Radio

(Vatican Radio) The Benedict XVI Centre for Religion and Society is a new interdisciplinary endeavor designed to create synergy and explore existing connections among the social sciences as these pertain to religion and the study of religion. Founded by St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, with the approval of the Secretariat of State of the Holy See, the Benedict XVI Centre for Religion and Society brings together existing strands of research and seeks to foster new projects with partner researchers and organizations.

The Centre’s founding ethos and central conviction is rooted in the enduring vision of Catholic higher education, as enunciated in the Apostolic Constitution Ex corde Ecclesiae of Pope St. John Paul II on the nature and purpose of the Catholic university in the life of the Church and the world.

Among the external affiliates of the Centre is Vatican Radio’s Chris Altieri, who spoke with the Centre’s founder and first Director, Dr. Stephen Bullivant, about the initiative and its efforts to recover the Christian roots of our increasingly secular culture.

Click below to hear Chris Altieri’s extended conversation with Dr. Stephen Bullivant
 
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« Reply #217 on: February 26, 2016, 05:59:07 PM »

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2016/02/25/university-opens-benedict-xvi-centre-approved-by-the-holy-see/

University opens Benedict XVI centre approved by the Holy See
posted Thursday, 25 Feb 2016
 
The Pope Emeritus visited the university in 2010, leading a “Big Assembly” with 3,500 school children and meeting leaders of different religions.

St Mary’s has also established the “Benedict XVI House”, where a lay community made up of staff and full-time students pursue a life focused on prayer.

The new Benedict XVI centre, according to the website, was “founded upon the conviction that interdisciplinary research, in which the sciences are brought into direct engagement with theology and ethics, is central to the life of a Catholic university (cf. Pope St John Paul II, Ex Corde Ecclesiae, 46).”

One of its first projects is to mark the 50th anniversary of Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae with a book that draws together scholars from different disciplines.
 
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« Reply #218 on: March 16, 2016, 10:10:50 PM »

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-emeritus-benedict-says-church-is-now-facing-a-two-sided-deep-crisis

Wed Mar 16, 2016 - 11:49 am EST
Pope Emeritus Benedict breaks silence: speaks of ‘deep crisis’ facing Church post-Vatican II

March 16, 2016 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- On March 16, speaking publicly on a rare occasion, Pope Benedict XVI gave an interview to Avvenire, the daily newspaper of the Italian Bishops' Conference, in which he spoke of a “two-sided deep crisis” the Church is facing in the wake of the Second Vatican Council. The report has already hit Germany courtesy of Vaticanist Guiseppe Nardi, of the German Catholic news website Katholisches.info.

Pope Benedict reminds us of the formerly indispensable Catholic conviction of the possibility of the loss of eternal salvation, or that people go to hell:

The missionaries of the 16th century were convinced that the unbaptized person is lost forever. After the [Second Vatican] Council, this conviction was definitely abandoned. The result was a two-sided, deep crisis. Without this attentiveness to the salvation, the Faith loses its foundation.

He also speaks of a “profound evolution of Dogma” with respect to the Dogma that there is no salvation outside the Church. This purported change of dogma has led, in the pope's eyes, to a loss of the missionary zeal in the Church – “any motivation for a future missionary commitment was removed.”

Pope Benedict asks the piercing question that arose after this palpable change of attitude of the Church: “Why should you try to convince the people to accept the Christian faith when they can be saved even without it?”
 
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« Reply #219 on: March 16, 2016, 10:14:10 PM »

http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2016/pope-benedict-yearning-for-mercy-is-sign-of-longing-for-gods-love.cfm

Pope Benedict: Yearning for mercy is sign of longing for God's love
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
3.16.2016 4:40 PM ET

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Although he lives a relatively hidden life in a villa in the Vatican Gardens, retired Pope Benedict XVI continues to study modern theological questions and, occasionally, to comment on them publicly.

The attention Pope Francis and many Christians are giving to the theme of divine mercy is a "sign of the times" that shows how, deep down, people still experience a need for God, the retired pope told Belgian Jesuit Father Jacques Servais in a written interview.

"Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight," Pope Benedict said in the interview published in mid-March.

Archbishop Georg Ganswein, the retired pope's personal secretary, read Pope Benedict's German text in October at a conference on the doctrine of justification and the experience of God. The retired pope approved the Italian translation of the text, which was published along with other papers presented at the conference.

The doctrine of justification -- how people are made righteous in God's eyes and saved by Jesus -- was at the heart of the Protestant Reformation, which will mark its 500th anniversary in 2017.

In the interview, Pope Benedict said, "For people today, unlike at the time of (Martin) Luther and from the classical perspective of the Christian faith, things have been turned upside down in a certain sense: Man no longer thinks he needs to be justified in God's sight, but rather he is of the opinion that it is God who must justify himself because of all the horrendous things present in the world and in the face of human misery."
 

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