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Rorate Caeli has the integral text of Pope Benedict’s intervention at Assisi.

I see in his words a clear example of what I lamented in another post: the attempt to remain orthodox whilst at the same time not saying the things that hurt. I also see an unfortunate reprise of one of JP II’s clearly noticeable traits: to express Catholic truths in a way that non-Catholics can easily interpret in their own way.

Let me examine the parts I find problematic:

Unfortunately, we cannot say that freedom and peace have characterized the situation ever since.

This, and other references, show a rather secular perspective of war and peace. It is as if peace would be the state we are supposed to be in, but we continue to be in a state of more or less spread war. An atheist will not see in this any reference to the fact that,

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