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Who is Cardinal Ratzinger? A very interesting interview done by Charlie Rose…
In his latest book, which hasn’t even been translated to any other language—it was in Italian because it is a dialogue with a non-believer, an Italian thinker and politician, on relativism and on the failure of Europe—the feared failure of Europe and of the West to stand up to the challenges of Islamic fundamentalism. And this is a conversation between the two.
In that book, he repeats again, he says, the number one problem with Christianity today is that the Christian life is no longer convincing. It doesn’t convince anyone. So his program is the formation of—he says creative minorities, throughout the world, that will offer not words but the witness of a life full of humanity, of peace, of joy, so that people from what is a cruel world—he agrees it is—will find a home in these communities.
Now, this is exactly what was done in the history of the church by one man named St. Benedict. Is it surprising that he has chosen…
CHARLIE ROSE: Benedict XVI.
LORENZO ALBACETE: Benedict.
CHARLIE ROSE: What’s the true nature of the man that is now the pope?
His book ‘Introduction to Christianity’ changed my life… Get rid of all that you think you know what Christianity is, and let`s look at it from point zero. This is what he wrote in '68.
LORENZO ALBACETE: The man is a humble man. The words you said, the first words he said this morning are clear. A humble, simple servant of the Lord’s vineyard. He is profoundly intelligent, but a very, very gentle man. Everybody who finally gets to meet him is stunned by that, because everybody goes through that image of the unbending German autocrat.
And yet I think you could even see it in the man’s eyes, in his little smile, in introducing a brand new papal gesture, something like this. This is a first in the history of the papacy, perhaps the beginning of the downfall of everything. And I think he should go on a worldwide piano tour. He’s a great pianist.
CHARLIE ROSE: Oh, really? Yeah, he loves Mozart.
LORENZO ALBACETE: Oh, yes, and he plays it very well. If I was his public relations person, I would recommend a piano tour. And then people would see that this is not a monster.
CHARLIE ROSE: Bring the piano to the mass. How about that?
LORENZO ALBACETE: Bring Mozart to the mass. That`s what he would like to do.
(LAUGHTER)
godspy.com/faith/Charlie-Rose-interviews-Lorenzo-Albacete-on-Pope-Benedict-and-the-Future-of-the-Church.cfm
In his latest book, which hasn’t even been translated to any other language—it was in Italian because it is a dialogue with a non-believer, an Italian thinker and politician, on relativism and on the failure of Europe—the feared failure of Europe and of the West to stand up to the challenges of Islamic fundamentalism. And this is a conversation between the two.
In that book, he repeats again, he says, the number one problem with Christianity today is that the Christian life is no longer convincing. It doesn’t convince anyone. So his program is the formation of—he says creative minorities, throughout the world, that will offer not words but the witness of a life full of humanity, of peace, of joy, so that people from what is a cruel world—he agrees it is—will find a home in these communities.
Now, this is exactly what was done in the history of the church by one man named St. Benedict. Is it surprising that he has chosen…
CHARLIE ROSE: Benedict XVI.
LORENZO ALBACETE: Benedict.
CHARLIE ROSE: What’s the true nature of the man that is now the pope?
His book ‘Introduction to Christianity’ changed my life… Get rid of all that you think you know what Christianity is, and let`s look at it from point zero. This is what he wrote in '68.
LORENZO ALBACETE: The man is a humble man. The words you said, the first words he said this morning are clear. A humble, simple servant of the Lord’s vineyard. He is profoundly intelligent, but a very, very gentle man. Everybody who finally gets to meet him is stunned by that, because everybody goes through that image of the unbending German autocrat.
And yet I think you could even see it in the man’s eyes, in his little smile, in introducing a brand new papal gesture, something like this. This is a first in the history of the papacy, perhaps the beginning of the downfall of everything. And I think he should go on a worldwide piano tour. He’s a great pianist.
CHARLIE ROSE: Oh, really? Yeah, he loves Mozart.
LORENZO ALBACETE: Oh, yes, and he plays it very well. If I was his public relations person, I would recommend a piano tour. And then people would see that this is not a monster.
CHARLIE ROSE: Bring the piano to the mass. How about that?
LORENZO ALBACETE: Bring Mozart to the mass. That`s what he would like to do.
(LAUGHTER)
godspy.com/faith/Charlie-Rose-interviews-Lorenzo-Albacete-on-Pope-Benedict-and-the-Future-of-the-Church.cfm
