Benedict XVI is the embodiment of resistance to the idiocies of today, when the obsession with ratings and sex are more important than any article of faith. But he performs that role with a soft voice and the steadfastness of a deeply religious man. And he binds the loyalty of those people who stand with him in opposition — some 1.2 billion Catholics in the global Church — and who are often ridiculed as idiots for doing so. They are true to the words of the apostle Paul: “God hath chosen the foolish things of the world.”
In his last Mass before he was elected as pope, Cardinal Ratzinger preached against the “dictatorship of relativism” and the ideology of “anything goes.” Today, many observers regard that sermon as a pre-emptive statement of the approach he would take as pope.
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(Der Spiegel) The Pope's Role in the New Battle for Religion
Benedict XVI is the embodiment of resistance to the idiocies of today, when the obsession with ratings and sex are more important than any article of faith. But he performs that role with a soft voice and the steadfastness of a deeply religious man. And he binds the loyalty of those people who stand with him in opposition — some 1.2 billion Catholics in the global Church — and who are often ridiculed as idiots for doing so. They are true to the words of the apostle Paul: “God hath chosen the foolish things of the world.”
In his last Mass before he was elected as pope, Cardinal Ratzinger preached against the “dictatorship of relativism” and the ideology of “anything goes.” Today, many observers regard that sermon as a pre-emptive statement of the approach he would take as pope.
Read it all.