Monday, September 06, 2010

The Confessions of the Young Ratzinger


The three autobiographical passages included by Benedict XVI in the message for the next World Youth Day 

by Sandro Magister


ROME, September 6, 2010 – "Autobiography of a pontificate": this was the title of the previous article from www.chiesa. By a curious coincidence, on the same day that article was published, Benedict XVI released a message unusually rich in autobiographical details.

It is the message for the World Youth Day that will be held in Madrid in August of 2011. It is a text plainly written by the pope himself, a concise summary of his vision. From the God lost to the God who makes himself near again in Jesus. A Jesus whom it is possible to "touch" in the sacraments of the Church.

It is a text that demands to be read in its entirety. But to begin, here are the three passages in which pope Joseph Ratzinger talks about himself, about his childhood during Nazism and the war, about the blossoming of his vocation to the priesthood, about the birth of the idea of writing a book about Jesus: "almost to help to see, hear, touch the Lord."

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