“Did you get a chance to finish reading the address? What do you think?”
Indeed I have. Isn’t it wonderful, even a miracle, that God has given the West such a great teacher as this pope at this time. We are seeing a great Father of The Church here, the first in the West in many centuries. Because of his role as First among Equals among the Patriarchs of The Church, when he speaks from Rome, the whole world, but most especially the Western Christian world so degraded by a soul destroying materialism and modernism, should listen.
Do you see what he is doing here with these talks on the Fathers? He is doing nothing less than catechising the West anew, using his position to start to repair the damage done by decades of drift and apostasy by going back to the Patristic roots of The Faith, demonstrating what The Church always and everywhere has believed.
Wow, that's really high praise from you. I've seen you write similar things before about him, but still, it is amazing to behold.
He started with the Apostles, and now has gone to the Fathers. One wonders if he will do the later Doctors of the Catholic Church next, such as St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Francis de Sales.
Indeed ... it's right there in the opening of his dialogue.
According to general opinion, Christianity is a European religion that has exported the culture of this Continent to other countries. The reality, though, is a lot more complex, as the root of the Christian religion is found in the Old Testament, and therefore in Jerusalem and the Semitic world.
Hear! Hear! Beautifully said Kolo... The first non-protestant book I read was Cardinal Ratzinger’s “God and the World”. In a way he began my journey to Holy Orthodoxy. May God grant him many years!