The Messages of Pope Benedict XVI - 4 of 4

The Messages of Pope Benedict XVI – 4 of 4
cinops be gone Thursday, June 05, 2008
Again, thank you Miles Christi’s Report No. 91 May 2008 titled “Viva il Papa!” An Historic Visit full of hope and challenges for us all: www.mileschriti.org
Thank you Fr. Patrick Wainwright, MC, Apostolate Director:

14. Freedom is not Relativism: “Freedom is a delicate value. It can be understood or misused so as to lead not to the happiness which we all expect it to yield … He you noticed how often the call for freedom is made without ever referring to the truth of the human person? Some today argue that respect for freedom of the individual makes it wrong to seek truth, including the truth about what is good. In some circles to speak of truth is seen as controversial or divisive, and consequently best kept in the private sphere. And in truth’s place – or better said in its absence – an idea has spread which, in giving value to everything indiscriminately, claim to assure freedom and to liberate conscience. This we call relativism. But what purpose has a ‘freedom’ which, in disregarding truth, pursues what is false or wrong?” (Address to Young People)

15. Truth is Christ: “How many people have been offered a hand which in the name of freedom or experience has led them to addiction, to moral and intellectual confusion, to hurt, to a loss of self-respect, even to despair and so tragically and sadly to the taking of their own life? Dear friends, truth is not an imposition. Nor is it simply a set of rules. It is a discovery of the One who never fails us; the One whom we can always trust. In seeking truth we come to live by belief because ultimately truth is a person: Jesus Christ. That is why authentic freedom is not an opting out. It is an opting in” (Ibid.).

16, Pope’s Bottom Line Message to us: “And this, dear friends, is the particular challenge which the Successor of Saint Peter sets before you today. As ‘a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation”, follow faithfully in the footsteps of those who have gone before you! Hasten the coming of God’s Kingdom in this land! Pat generations have left you can impressive legacy” (Homily at the Mass in Yankee Stadium, NYC).

Thank you, Holy Father, for your visit!!

George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.