Benedict's Logic: A Church Contracting & Expanding Simultaneously There is a caricature afloat of Pope Benedict's view of the Church's present and future that goes like this: "The new Pope thinks that the Church must become smaller and purer. This view contradicts the expansionary vision of the late John Paul II." The caricature is wrong. There is no contradiction here between the vision of John Paul the Great and Pope Benedict. All the world just heard Pope Benedict at the Roman church dedicated to the great missionary Apostle Paul proclaiming evangelization as the central task of the Church. Let's correct...
