Pave Bendikt (Bento på portugisisk) kom til Brasil i går kveld norsk tid, og ble etter den offisielle mottakelsen på flyplassen fløyet med helikopter til benediktinerklosteret Sao Bento i Sao Paulo, og der fikk han bl.a. tid til å be i det flotte kirkerommet vi ser på bildet.
Mange katolske nettsteder følger besøket nøye, bl.a. the American Papist. På flyturen over var det bl.a. tid til en pressekonferanse, der John Allen refererer alle spørsmål og svar, her er det siste spørsmålet:
Many Brazilians don’t necessarily want to hear the message of the church. What can you do about that?
Pope Benedict XVI:
This is not a specific problem of Brazil. In every part of the world, there are lots of people who don’t want to listen. We hope that at least, they hear, so that if they hear, they will also be able to respond. We also seek to convince those who don’t necessarily want to hear us. Naturally, even Our Lord wasn’t able to succeed in getting everyone to listen. We don’t expect that in any given moment we’ll be able to persuade everyone. But, I’ll try, with the help of my collaborators, to speak to Brazil in this moment with the hope that many people want to listen, and that many can be convinced that this is the path to take. Of course, I’ll leave open, at the level of detail, the possibility for many different options and different opinions.