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   "A word to the wise ain't necessary --  
          it's the stupid ones that need the advice."
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Saturday, December 10, 2005


Papal intelligence and eloquence

Hugh Hewitt, via Amy Welborn, linked this wonderful homily from Benedict XVI today.

2 Comments:

Blogger Jeff said...

Hey, W'dog--thanks for the link to this. It's the first of B16's homilies that I've read, and I especially liked his comments about being afraid to be good because of the mistaken belief that evil is more "interesting."

I also loves that he quotes Goethe's "Faust"! I can't imagine a non-German pope doing that...

December 10, 2005 2:31 PM  
Blogger Wonderdog said...

Hey Jeff. It's the first I'd read as well and I was so impressed I felt compelled to post it.

Loved that he quoted "Faust" as well and what he had to say as a follow up to it: "We think that bargaining a little with evil, reserving some freedom against God, is good, perhaps even necessary."

Since I have at times so bargained, I found it a direct challenge to me. It made me think of the times I've sung along to U2's "Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and belted out the line -- "I have held the hand of the devil...it was waaarm in the niiight!" and felt that sense of the "interesting" and cool about it.

B16's comments made me feel like a stupid teenager in the midst of an immature and slightly iniquitous moment suddenly catching the gaze of my father and feeling immediate embarrassment and shame.

I figure any homily that can take me from Original Sin to Mephistophelese to U2 to my father must have been a pretty decent one.

December 11, 2005 1:32 AM  

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