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I was searching for some quotes by pope benedict xvi today for another topic when i came across this cryptic quote on an entirely different subject that i dont quite get....it comes in the form of a interview between a Mr Seewald and Pope Benedict
"SEEWALD: Do you see yourself as the last Pope of the old world or the first of the new?
BENEDICT: I would say both.
SEEWALD: As a bridge, a kind of connecting element between the two worlds?
BENEDICT: I don’t belong to the old world anymore, but the new one in reality hasn’t yet begun."
What the heck is this all about?
What an odd question to ask and an even stranger answer???
But it does raise some questions of my own
What is this new world?
If pope benedict is the last pope of this old world and the first pope of the new world that has not yet begun... where is pope francis in all of this
And when the interviewer asks where the francis pontificate fits in perhaps as merely the outward sign of a epoch turning point things get even more strange as he talks about earthly divisons and the abandoning of christian tradition in the church and the decline of christianity in europe but is carefull to avoid answering the question
"The temporal divisions were always decisive a posteriori: only in a second time is it established that here began the Middle Ages or there began the modern era. Only a posteriori is it seen how movements developed. For this reason I won’t hazard a like affirmation now. Nevertheless, it is evident that the Church has been abandoning more and more the old traditional structures of European life and, hence, changes appearance and lives new forms. It’s clear above all that the dechristianization of Europe progresses, that the Christian element is vanishing more and more from the fabric of society. Consequently, the Church must find a new form of presence, must change its way of presenting itself. There are epochal upheavals underway, but one doesn’t yet know to what point it can be said with precision that one or the other begins"
For some reason i get the image of our lords words
"Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God ; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.”
So what is going on here? Would anyone like to hazard a guess or a theory
Edit: i forgot to post the link
Benedict XVI: last Pope of old era or first of the next? | Fr. Z's Blog
"SEEWALD: Do you see yourself as the last Pope of the old world or the first of the new?
BENEDICT: I would say both.
SEEWALD: As a bridge, a kind of connecting element between the two worlds?
BENEDICT: I don’t belong to the old world anymore, but the new one in reality hasn’t yet begun."
What the heck is this all about?
What an odd question to ask and an even stranger answer???
But it does raise some questions of my own
What is this new world?
If pope benedict is the last pope of this old world and the first pope of the new world that has not yet begun... where is pope francis in all of this
And when the interviewer asks where the francis pontificate fits in perhaps as merely the outward sign of a epoch turning point things get even more strange as he talks about earthly divisons and the abandoning of christian tradition in the church and the decline of christianity in europe but is carefull to avoid answering the question
"The temporal divisions were always decisive a posteriori: only in a second time is it established that here began the Middle Ages or there began the modern era. Only a posteriori is it seen how movements developed. For this reason I won’t hazard a like affirmation now. Nevertheless, it is evident that the Church has been abandoning more and more the old traditional structures of European life and, hence, changes appearance and lives new forms. It’s clear above all that the dechristianization of Europe progresses, that the Christian element is vanishing more and more from the fabric of society. Consequently, the Church must find a new form of presence, must change its way of presenting itself. There are epochal upheavals underway, but one doesn’t yet know to what point it can be said with precision that one or the other begins"
For some reason i get the image of our lords words
"Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God ; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.”
So what is going on here? Would anyone like to hazard a guess or a theory
Edit: i forgot to post the link
Benedict XVI: last Pope of old era or first of the next? | Fr. Z's Blog