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Peter Seewald har skrevet flere b\u00f8ker om kardinal Ratzinger\/pave Benedikt og uttaler seg interessant om pavens siste bes\u00f8k i Tyskland. Han sier bl.a.:<\/p>\n Peter Seewald har skrevet flere b\u00f8ker om kardinal Ratzinger\/pave Benedikt og uttaler seg interessant om pavens siste bes\u00f8k i Tyskland. Han sier bl.a.:<\/p>\n
The Kath.net interviewer asked Seewald who the Pope was referring to when he said during the vigil with young people, \u201c(D)amage to the Church comes not from her opponents but from uncommitted Christians.\u201d Seewald replied, \u201cProbably you and me. The Pope is an encourager and a builder of bridges, but he also warns us. Every Christian needs new impulses to keep from becoming stagnant in his development, in his journey, his witness and his Christian conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n
Later in the interview Seewald said the Pope came to Germany to draw attention to problems, because \u201che does not want a fictitious peace but rather one that is genuine. He is anything but someone who covers things up with nice words or tries to put make-up on the seriousness of the situation with massive events, contrary to what (Hans) Kung and his friends assert.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
F\u00f8rst og fremst er intervjuet med Seewald et tydelig uttrykk for at pavens bes\u00f8k i Tyskland var sv\u00e6rt vellykket:<\/p>\n
In an interview with the Kath.net news agency sent to CNA for publication, German Catholic reporter Peter Seewald said the recent papal trip to Germany was a victory for the humility and message of the Pope.<\/p>\n
In the interview, Seewald, author of \u201cLight of the World,\u201d described the Pope\u2019s visit as \u201ca small miracle\u201d because \u201cshortly before there was a very aggressive, anti-clerical assault by the media.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of this brings to mind George Orwell\u2019s \u20181984,\u2019 in which an imaginary enemy, a nightmare, is created in order to scare people.\u201d \u201cAnd yet,\u201d Seewald noted, \u201cdespite all of this incredible effort by the media, an innumerable amount of people stood up and refused to be deceived.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey said the Germans would turn their backs on him and all kinds of other stupidities. There appears to be nothing more offensive in our times than being Catholic. As the magazine \u2018Stern\u2019 said, \u2018The brief euphoria at the outset was followed by an irreparable distancing between the majority of Germans and their fellow countryman.\u2019 It\u2019s as if they were saying that everything would be wonderful and orderly in the world if the Vatican just ceased to exist.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, Seewald continued, \u201cWe were all witnesses to something much greater. Where were all the masses of critics and protesters? They never showed up. And yet 350,000 people made great sacrifices in order to personally listen to the Pope and to attend Mass with him. Millions watched on television. The Pope\u2019s books are selling faster than ever \u2026 And undoubtedly never before has so much intelligence, wisdom and truth, so much of what is fundamental, been heard in Germany.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Seewald, whose own conversion to Catholicism came after meeting then-Cardinal Ratzinger, \u201c(t)hese words can no longer be ignored. They are the measure and the touchstone for the subsequent debates and the renewal of the Catholic Church in Germany.\u201d The only \u201cshadows\u201d of the Pope\u2019s trip to Germany were the massive attacks against him by the media, he said. …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n