Papal intelligence and eloquence
Hugh Hewitt, via Amy Welborn, linked this wonderful homily from Benedict XVI today.
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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...
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.
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