More wisdom from Pope Benedict XVI

 
 
 

Indeed, the faith loses its binding character and its seriousness if everything is reduced to symbols that are basically interchangeable, capable of referring only from a distance to the inaccessible mystery of the divine.

—Pope Benedict XVI

from his book What Is Christianity?

 

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TRUTH OR TOLERANCE?

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI asked that What Is Christianity? be published upon his death. Here Benedict warns about the dangers of tolerance, insisting that the only “authentic counterweight to every form of intolerance” is Christ crucified. He writes of the Eucharist, the beauty of nature, and Christianity’s relationship with other religions.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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