"While the Lenten retreat has long been seen in Roman circles as a "showcase" for potential future pontiffs – both Cardinals Karol Wojtyla (1976) and Joseph Ratzinger (2002) were respectively tapped to give the exercises before their own elections – from the time of his ascent, Benedict studiously avoided the practice for almost his entire tenure, tapping retired cardinals and priest-professors to conduct six of his eight retreats as Pope.
With the choice of the 70 year-old Italian (who scored headlines recently by confessing a newfound devotion to the late British soul singer Amy Winehouse), only with an eye to his retirement did B16 pick an active cardinal of the Curia to carry out the task. "
Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction -Pope Benedict XVI
cinepro wrote:They should have gone with Giovanni Ribisi.
I like his work, but as a Scientologist he doesn't qualify.
Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction -Pope Benedict XVI
