AT THE TIME when Cardinal Ratzinger was elected pope in 2005, I was preparing to go to Frankfurt, Germany, to fulfil a speaking invitation for Pentecost Sunday. Following Ratzinger’s controversial election, I received much email containing messages such as “I am leaving the Ratzinger Church” and “This is the end of the line for Roman Catholicism even though I have hung in there all these difficult years.” I became aware that it would not be business as usual in Germany.
I could not in good conscience speak on the Pentecost theme of ecclesial rebirth without addressing issues surrounding the new ...
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