Tag Archives: Benedict XVI

Retraction and Apology – and Further Consideration on the Hope for the World

By roger | Published: 7 January 2011

I must make an apology. I have inadvertently, if slightly, misquoted the Pope. In reference to climate change, I wrote that the Holy Father had said “[The Church] not only has a major responsibility; she is, I would say, the only hope.” In fact another word appears in the Pope’s thoughts. It is the word [...]

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Christmas and the Fate of the Earth

By roger | Published: 24 December 2010

January 2011 Amendment: The following entry was originally written under a slight misapprehension as to something the Holy Father had said. In a British print journal, I had read the Pope say that in terms of the global climate crisis: The Church is the only hope. The quote had been taken from Light of the [...]

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The Pope on Ecological “Catastrophe … The Church is often the Only Hope”

By roger | Published: 11 December 2010

January 2011 Amendment: The following entry was originally written under a slight misapprehension as to the Holy Father’s words. In a British print journal, I had read the Pope say that in terms of the global climate crisis: The Church is the only hope. The quote had been taken from Light of the World – [...]

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Valentin Tomberg and the Holy Father on the Moral Energy of the Eucharist

By roger | Published: 19 June 2010

Personal Memorandum: My book Cor Jesu Sacratissimum is going through unanticipated revision and expansion. The result is more delay than I would like, but what emerges has, I think, greater clarity, passion and strength. One thing that has hit me in this process is the need to speak of the Eucharist as clearly as possible [...]

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Memory and Forgetting: From Liberal to Traditional

By roger | Published: 18 March 2010

The journey from Liberal to Conservative … This is a subject on which I ponder a great deal, having made a long trek in my lifetime across a number of stations, from New Age to liberal Protestant to liberal Catholic to finally a Catholic who feels he must do all he can to defend the [...]

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Book Review: The Rise of Benedict XVI: The Inside Story of How the Pope was Elected and Where He Will Take the Catholic Church by John L Allen Jr

By roger | Published: 11 November 2009

Exceptional journalism from John L Allen to counter media stereotypes of Catholicism and Benedict XVI.

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Book Review: The Ratzinger Report – Joseph Ratzinger, Vittorio Messori

By roger | Published: 13 June 2009

Recently here at this website, I quoted Valentin Tomberg saying: “The darkening which today is described as “the present crisis of the Catholic Church” can lead to the necessity for the solitary sons of the Church to hurry to the aid of the Holy Father, the most solitary of solitaries, in order to save the [...]

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Book Review: Salt of the Earth – Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

By roger | Published: 9 May 2009

A Remarkable Book by a Remarkable Lover of Humanity …

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