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I am looking forward to reading this. I got to attend a papal audience in Rome two weeks ago and see BXVI in person. One thing that struck me is that he is a person of great dignity - but enormously humble. The crowd (of 10,000!) went wild when he came in, and kept cheering for him and calling out to him, and it was interesting to me that a person who is in many ways very self-effacing is loved so. He does nothing dramatic and makes no grand gestures, but people trust him and respond to him.

And then everybody listened silently and intently to his homily and his words to us in our native languages, because we recognized him as a teacher of the truth.


13 posted on 02/19/2007 9:39:14 AM PST by livius
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livius, Pope Benedict's election is what pushed me into my long-considered conversion. When I saw him on the balcony, I knew I was seeing the Holy Spirit shining on his face.

He has a true gift of teaching, which I hope more and more people will appreciate. I will be ordering the book also.

19 posted on 02/19/2007 4:08:36 PM PST by Miss Marple (Prayers for Jemian's son,: Lord, please keep him safe and bring him home .)
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