Thursday, January 26, 2006
GOOD ANALYSIS
Fr. Thomas Williams of Rome's Regina Apostolorum University offers a perceptive evaluation in this story linked at Spirit Daily.
He too notes that Benedict has issued a surprise, and not the encyclical expected from a defender of doctrine. He quotes Benedict's words, "love...is so tarnished, so spoiled and so abused, that one is almost afraid to pronounce it" which are a summation of the entire text. Benedict is trying to rescue an essential Christian concept from the degredation the world has heaped upon it.
