Word: rottweilerã
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...after the European Enlightenment, the Protestant Reformation, and subsequent political secularization, we find a radically different Church these days. Once known as a dogmatic “rottweiler?? while he was still Cardinal Ratzinger, Benedict XVI is a changed man. And for the better. He seems to have adopted the best aspects of John Paul II’s revolutionary ecumenism and unheralded political subtlety. The trip to Turkey is a prime example of such policies...
...openly like Manuel II and his Persian interlocutor had once done. Drawing from other speeches given during his Bavarian escapade, and last year’s encyclical letter entitled Deus Caritas Est (“God is Love”), we can conclude the once-called “rottweiler?? Cardinal Ratzinger molded into a truly ecumenical pontiff. He quotes enlightened philosophes, concelebrates with rabbis and patriarchs, and is quite fond of neo-Platonic reasoning in his homilies. He even repeatedly quotes passages in the Qur’an. In short, he seeks to bring the Church closer...
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