Benedict XVI is a great fan of St. Augustine. I am looking forward to the rest of his series on St. Augustine.
I shall add your relatives to my prayers (I pray for my own, most of whom don't practice their faith), especially the priest.
“I am looking forward to the rest of his series on St. Augustine.”
I am too, though perhaps for different reasons. So much of what underlies the theological differences between Orthodoxy and the Latin Church (and Western Christianity in general) are attributable, ultimately, to Blessed Augustine’s writings that it will be fascinating to read +BXVI’s take on that. Did you notice the Holy Father’s comment about +Augustine’s deficient Greek?