RATZINGER - BENEDETTO XVI

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The Financial Times reported that Benedict's advocacy for a fairer redistribution of wealth helped set the agenda for the 2009 July G8 summit. On 19 September 2010, during his visit to the United Kingdom, Benedict personally proclaimed the beatification of John Henry Newman. The Dalai Lama congratulated Benedict XVI upon his election, [164] and visited him in October 2006 in Vatican City.

The various forms of the dissolution of matrimony today, like free unions, trial marriages and going up to pseudo-matrimonies by people of the same sex, are rather expressions of an anarchic freedom that wrongly passes for true freedom of man .Main article: Ceremonial of Benedict XVI Benedict wearing a red Cappello romano during an open-air Mass in front of St. Further, in December 2010, the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith explained that Benedict's statement did not constitute a legitimization of either contraception or prostitution, which remains gravely immoral. Upon Benedict's death, his efforts to combat sexual abuse in the Church were remembered with mixed reactions, in particular by victims' groups. After two weeks of ceremonial farewells, the Pope left office at the appointed time and sede vacante was declared. The pope emeritus was honoured by the Roman Curia and Francis in 2016 at a special audience, honouring the 65th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood.

I ask him to help us all to hold firm to the centrality of Christ in our Christian life: May Christ always take first place in our thoughts and actions! Benedict entered the basilica through a discreet entrance and was seated in a row with several other cardinals. Benedict was succeeded by Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who took the papal name of Francis on 13 March 2013. Pope Benedict forgives Susanna Maiolo one day after she knocked him down during Christmas Eve Mass". Thus, in his book Jesus of Nazareth, his main purpose was "to help foster [in the reader] the growth of a living relationship" with Jesus Christ.October 2009: Canonization of five new Saints: Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński, Francisco Coll y Guitart, Josef Daamian de Veuster, Rafael Arnáiz Barón, Marie de la Croix (Jeanne) Jugan | Benedict XVI". If we let Christ into our lives, we lose nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing of what makes life free, beautiful, and great.

Honours and awards In 2013, one of Notre-Dame de Paris' new bells was named Benoît-Joseph after Benedict.Cardinal Vincent Nichols wrote that in his role as head of the CDF "[Ratzinger] led important changes made in church law: the inclusion in canon law of internet offences against children, the extension of child abuse offences to include the sexual abuse of all under 18, the case by case waiving of the statute of limitation and the establishment of a fast-track dismissal from the clerical state for offenders. Roger Etchegaray, the vice-dean of the College of Cardinals, fell as well and suffered a hip fracture. For regularly scheduled public celebrations of the Tridentine Mass, the permission of the priest in charge of the church is required. Fisher, Ian "Benedict's First Encyclical Shuns Strictures of Orthodoxy" The New York Times, 26 January 2006.

LGBT groups, such as the Italian Arcigay and German LSVD, announced that they found Benedict's comments homophobic.

Today, a particularly insidious obstacle to the task of education is the massive presence in our society and culture of that relativism which, recognising nothing as definitive, leaves as the ultimate criterion only the self with its desires.