Posted on 08/31/2022 6:56:47 PM PDT by marshmallow
CNA Newsroom, Aug 30, 2022 / 05:15 am After a website dedicated to Benedict XVI received thousands of congratulations in 24 languages on the occasion of his 95th birthday this year, the organizers moved to make www.BenedictusXVI.com available in English, broaden its scope — and take it international.
Launched on Aug. 28, the new international version in English aims to provide a “beacon in the stormy seas” of rampant secularization, the Tagespost Foundation announced.
Currently, the site offers a newsletter of inspirational quotes and excerpts from key texts by the noted theologian, biographical notes, background information, and a statement on the Munich report into clerical sexual abuse.
“The goal of the BenedictusXVI.com project is to build an attractive digital knowledge portal that will become the authorized international collection point on the life, thought and work of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI,” in “cooperation with experts in Germany and abroad,” the organizers told CNA in a written statement.
“The pope emeritus himself has given his consent to this project.”
The portal’s development is a joint project between the Tagespost Foundation for Catholic Journalism and the Institute Pope Benedict XVI.
Benedict XVI celebrated his 95th birthday on April 16, Holy Saturday. He was born Joseph Alois Ratzinger in 1927 in Marktl am Inn, a small Bavarian town not far from Austria, also on a Holy Saturday.
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Maybe I’ll visit the website again when I’m less tired but my first attempt was a maze of desired consents, cookies, legalese…wouldn’t let me see anything. A website featuring easy access to Benedict’s quotes would be a goldmine, though.
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