GREETING OF POPE BENEDICT XVI TO YOUNG PEOPLE WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL 18 SEPTEMBER 2010 Dear young friends, Thank you for your warm welcome! “Heart speaks unto heart” – cor ad cor loquitur – as you know, I chose these words so dear to Cardinal Newman as the theme of my visit. In these few moments that we...
There is one thing that stands out on this birthday of the Light, on this entrance procession of goodness into the world, and it fills us again and again with the nagging doubt whether those great things we talk about have really happened there in the stable of Bethlehem. Look at the sun, it...
Surely all of us who are aquainted with the tradition of Western art are familiar with those delightfully naive pictures in which, above the heads of the apostles, only the feet of Jesus are still visible beneath the cloud that envelops him. The outer rim of the cloud itself is a dark circle; inside there...
