Ratzinger Hints at the Troubles Facing the Curia

Vatican Insider
February 16, 2012

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Benedict XVI

“The whole world is talking about the Church of Rome, let us hope it is also talking about our faith.” These were the words pronounced by the Pope during this afternoon’s “lectio divina” with Seminarians from Rome who met him at the Lateran University on the Feast of Our Lady of Trust. “Let us hope that people are not talking about just anything but that they are talking about the faith of the Roman Church,” Benedict XVI said, alluding to the recent controversy in the press concerning the Roman Curia.

The Pope’s reflection referred to the Letter to the Romans, in which, as he stressed in his address to the future priests of the Diocese of Rome, “Paul speaks to us, because he speaks to Romans of all times.”

During the “lectio divina” Ratzinger also warned Seminarians against the “power of finance and the media” which “are necessary and even useful, but so open to abuse that they can go against man.”

The “power of finance,” the Pope said, transforms money from “instrument” to “greed,” “a power that oppresses man.” “Christians oppose conformism and submission,” the Pope said.

In as far as “public opinion” is concerned, “we need information, but this can not be overcome by the power of appearance, which in the end only gives importance to what is said rather than to the truth and man becomes only concerned with appearances.”

According to Benedict XVI, “Christian nonconformism” is the characteristic of someone who wants “freedom of truth” and rebels against the “oppression of appearance.”