From Zenit.org, a report on personal accounts of encounters with Josef Cardinal Ratzinger, who would become Pope Benedict XVI:


… a man of “great humanity, a lover of nature

and of music,” [and characterized by] openness and simplicity in dealing with people, [who] over the years

in Rome has formed friendships with many people.




Zenit also reports on the tendency of the public to percieve the new pope in stereotypical ways.


… [it is] erroneous it is to expect that suddenly the new

Pope will make drastic changes to Church teaching. We cannot expect the

Pope “to abandon the ‘deposit of faith,’ which it is his sacred duty to

preserve.”


… the German is a great theologian,

“one of the greatest intellectuals of our time,” who also has a marked

sense of humor.  

One of the key ideas of the new Pope … is

that we need to rediscover the eternal truths in the context of modern

society. Modernity poses many questions, but it is in Christ that we

find the answers. It is in this sense … that

Cardinal Ratzinger as prefect for the doctrinal congregation took

action, not as some kind of disciplinarian, but as someone who wanted

to preserve the essential elements of the Christian faith. A task he

will surely continue to carry out.



Viva il Papa!


(via COPA-NET)


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