Catholic Replies
Editor’s Note: In a soon-to-be-published biography, Pope Benedict XVI was asked about a phrase he uttered in his first homily as Pope in 2005. He had asked at that time that the faithful “Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves.” Did this mean, Peter Seewald asked, that the Holy Father had foreseen what was coming? The Pontiff replied:“The true threat for the Church, and thus for the Petrine service, does not come from this sort of episode — it comes instead from the universal dictatorship of apparently humanistic ideologies. Anyone who contradicts this dictatorship is excluded from the basic consensus of society. One hundred years ago, anyone would have thought it absurd to speak…Continue Reading