Fabio Zavattaro
There is a phrase in the back cover of the book of Pope Benedict interview with German journalist Peter Seewald, Light of the world, I like to start, "not We are a production center, we are not profit oriented company, we are the Church. We are a community of people living in faith. Our task is not to create a product or succeed in sales. Our task is to live an exemplary faith, proclaim. " There is everything Ratzinger, and his idea of \u200b\u200bthe Church in this speech, the Pope who knows how to distinguish the sin from the sinner, which can embrace dialogue and lay believers of other faiths, especially the Pope entrusts himself totally to God, as the day of his election when he turned to the Lord, he says, with these words: "Lord, what you're doing? Now the responsibility is yours. You've got to lead! I'm not capable. If you told me you wanted, now you also have to help me. " There is a private
Ratzinger who loves music, celebrating birthdays and birthdays with the pontifical family, watching the news on the tv, e qualche film. Il Papa che ricorda le parole di Giovanni Paolo II quando, avvicinandosi il suo 75mo compleanno, il limite di età in cui i cardinali e i vescovi rassegnano le dimissioni, gli disse: non è nemmeno necessario che lei scriva la lettera, perché io la voglio con me sino alla fine. E così è stato fino a quella sera, vigilia della morte di Wojtyla, quando, tornando da Subiaco, dove era stato a tenere una conferenza sull’Europa, Ratzinger sale nell’appartamento del Papa: «ci siamo lasciati stringendoci le mani con affetto, nella consapevolezza che sarebbe stato il nostro ultimo incontro».
E c’è, nel libro intervista, il Ratzinger pubblico, il Papa che affronta i gradi temi, problems and difficult issues. As the question of infallibility of the Pope responds, "under certain circumstances and under certain conditions, the Pope can make binding decisions by means of which it becomes clear what is the faith of the Church and what is not. But it does not produce a continuous infallibility the Pope, the Bishop of Rome usually behaves like any other bishop who professes his faith, and is faithful to the Church proclaims. " As if to say, even a Pope can make mistakes. And he says it clearly when addressing the issue of dialogue with Islam and his speech at the University of Regensburg in 2006: "I conceived this as a lesson strictly academic discourse, without being realize that the speech of a Pope is not considered by the academic standpoint, but politically. From a political perspective does not consider the speech by paying attention to detail, and was instead an extrapolation step and given it a political meaning, which in reality did not. " Since that incident were born in the dialogue and the positive steps it has become clear that Islam in the public debate "must clarify two issues: that of its relationship with violence and with reason."
Then there is the case of Bishop Lefebvre denier Williamson, who took his excommunication in January 2009. The Pope confesses that if he was aware of his claims, he would not sign the waiver, "it would first have to separate the Williamson case from the others, but unfortunately - admits the Pope - none of us have looked on the internet aware of who he was. " "Unfortunately we had expected," and is "a particularly painful episode," but has also highlighted how there is "animosity ready to explode, which awaits only that these things happen and then strike with precision."
Among the many topics discussed, comes the question of condoms and its use to curb the spread of AIDS in the foreground on the journey that brought the Pope in Cameroon. A topic that, after a preview of the press, did so much to discuss, especially for a diversity in wording between the writing in German and Italian translation - Father Federico Lombardi has subsequently clarified that this is not to discuss whore or prostitute, but the discussion should focus on the fact that condom use is a primary responsibility, a first step on the road to a more human sexuality. Pope Ratzinger says that we must do much more and that does not solve the AIDS problem with condom use: just focus on this means "trivializing sexuality, and this trivialization is precisely the reason why so many dangerous and many people in sexuality no longer see the expression of their love, but only a kind drugs, which are administered by itself. "
more difficult subject, homosexuality, the Pope says is a "big test" in front of which a person can be, "just like a person may have to endure more testing." But "this does not become morally right." Still, pedophilia, "unfortunately, we have addressed the issue only very slowly and with great delay. Somehow it was very well covered and only since 2000 we started to have some concrete benchmarks. It was necessary to have certain tests to be sure that the allegations had a basis. " Then
"especially urgent challenge" about the situation of a priest who lives con una donna. Dice il Papa: «si deve esaminare se esista una vera volontà matrimoniale e se i due possano contrarre un buon matrimonio. Se così fosse, dovranno imboccare quella strada. Se invece si trattasse di una caduta della volontà morale, senza un autentico legame interiore, sarà necessario trovare vie di risanamento per lui e per lei». Il problema di fondo, afferma ancora il Papa, è la sincerità: «tutto quello che è menzogna e occultamento, non deve essere».
Leggendo questo libro ritroviamo pagina dopo pagina l’umile lavoratore nella vigna del Signore, il Papa che invita a guardare all’essenziale e a rinunciare al superfluo; che ricorda come la vera conversione – sono le parole celebration of the Consistory for the creation of 24 new cardinals - is fully realized when the man "wanted to save Jesus gives up and agrees to be saved from him. Give up wanting to save Jesus from the cross and agree to be rescued from his cross. " His is a ministry that is "always answer a call, 'never' fruit of their project or their own ambition." In the Church, recalled, "all are invited, all are met and guided by divine grace. And this is also our security. "
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