Hmm, Pope St. Benedict XVI?

[OLRansom]

I know Ratzinger was somewhat of a liberal in his earlier days, but not anymore.

In concluding such, I would ask you to re-consider, for example, his recent visit to the Cologne synagogue. What significance, if any, does such an action have?

 

[labernadette]

In concluding such, I would ask you to re-consider, for example, his recent visit to the Cologne synagogue. What significance, if any, does such an action have?

Also, what significance did his praying in the Blue Mosque have?

 

[Brian_C]

In concluding such, I would ask you to re-consider, for example, his recent visit to the Cologne synagogue. What significance, if any, does such an action have?

You tell us, what significance does it have?

 

[Pope_Noah_I]

In concluding such, I would ask you to re-consider, for example, his recent visit to the Cologne synagogue. What significance, if any, does such an action have?

I wouldn’t call visiting a synagougue liberal. As for the Blue Mousque, it was a “kissing the koran” incedent, a reminder that the Pope is human as well.

 

[Gottle_of_Geer]

I’ve been thinking about the MP alot, and I honestly think it could cause drastic changes in the Liturgical life of the Church, for the better. If this happens, do you think there is a possibility of Benedict being canonized some day?

That is not sufficient reason for opening a cause for canonisation - let alone for canonisation itself.​

More importantly, Popes don’t need admiration, but prayers. Will people who think that Popes are Saints already, pray for them that they may indeed become truly Christ-like, truly holy ?

 

[Pope_Noah_I]

That is not sufficient reason for opening a cause for canonisation - let alone for canonisation itself.​

More importantly, Popes don’t need admiration, but prayers. Will people who think that Popes are Saints already, pray for them that they may indeed become truly Christ-like, truly holy ?

Well, then why is Blessed John XXIII Blessed if making some Liturgical changes is suffiecient for opening the cause for canonization? It’s an honest question.

 

[LilyM]

That is not sufficient reason for opening a cause for canonisation - let alone for canonisation itself.​

More importantly, Popes don’t need admiration, but prayers. Will people who think that Popes are Saints already, pray for them that they may indeed become truly Christ-like, truly holy ?

Of course - we all pray for our Pope in every day’s Mass and often in our Rosaries and other prayers too

 

[system]

He pwns. You gain win points!

 

[Gottle_of_Geer]

Well, then why is Blessed John XXIII Blessed if making some Liturgical changes is suffiecient for opening the cause for canonization? It’s an honest question.

That’s news to me - there must be more to his cause than that: such as well-founded reasons for supposing that he practiced the theological virtues to an heroic degree.​

Liturgical change as such isn’t a reason to open a cause, otherwise Sixtus V would have a cause, for his part in overseeing the 1587 Septuagint; as would Clement VIII, for correcting & re-publishing his predecessor’s edition of the Vulgate.

ISTM we don’t disagree

 

[m134e5]

I’ve been thinking about the MP alot, and I honestly think it could cause drastic changes in the Liturgical life of the Church, for the better. If this happens, do you think there is a possibility of Benedict being canonized some day?

I do not think it will cause Pope Benedict XVI to be canonized. I love him. When I found out he got elected (I remember it like it was yesterday- it was the anniversary of my baptism/confirmation/first communion, and I was in the music building and a mormon friend mentioned it in passing…I couldn’t get back to my room fast enough to see if the rumors were true…and they were…I will always remember that day!).

Freeing up old liturgies doesn’t make saints- holiness does. Don’t get me wrong…the TLM is beautiful. I don’t like how things seem to have just been changed on a whim, in 6 years during one of the most culturally and politically unstable decades of the 20th century. I think it was wrong- perhaps even sinful- to tear apart the churches and throw out time-honored traditions, and repay the Catholics who loved the Church, loved the Mass, and respected the clergy with condemnation- and tolerance and acceptance of anyone and everyone else but them. I would love to see the pope allow the Tridentine Mass to be celebrated as often and as commonly as the Novus Ordo- and if there were one in my town, I would be there- no doubt about it…I just don’t let my faith hinge on that, and I don’t think it has an inherent ability to make saints. Your spirituality must be internal (depending totally on God). If you depend on other things, you will become bitter- because you will be disappointed (which explains why when I have visited sedevacantist online forums, they do nothing but gripe).

 

[RaulN]

I’m sure Benedict himself is striving for sanctity, and therefore is saintly.

He himself said: “The saints are the true reformers. Only from the saints, only from God does true revolution come, the definitive way to change the world.”

Since he wants to change the world, he is trying to be saint; and if he is trying to be a saint, God will grant what he asks for.

I heard from somebody that a German Cardinal quipped about Ratzinger: he has the intellect of 20 theologians and the simplicity of a child who just had his first communion. Well, if holiness demands both knowing God well and loving God as a child, then Pope Benedict must be holy!

If you remember his program of governance when he was installed as Pope, he said that it is about “listening to God” and “doing his will”. What is that if not sanctity?

You’ll find this post here as well: ratzingerthewise.blogspot.com/