‘You are confusing a modern man with an American liberal.”
These words were spoken years ago by a French cardinal responding to a question about modernity and Christianity. They come back to us now as we watch a pope who has just left the chair of St. Peter — where the eyes of the world were upon him — for a life of prayer and obscurity.
Since he announced his decision to resign, the media have obsessed over who the next pope will be and especially what he might change within Catholicism. Will he be open to gay marriage? Women priests? Married priests? Birth control? And so on.
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We don’t pretend to have answers. But as we watch the extraordinary outpouring of love, affection and tears for this humble, 85-year-old priest from Bavaria, we are left wondering whether the American media have the best take on Pope Benedict’s impact on either the world or his flock.
Maybe, as that French cardinal suggested, people are not looking for a pope whose idea of modernity conforms to the world’s latest fashion. Just maybe their idea of a leader for the modern age is someone willing on occasion to stand up to it.
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