In AsiaNews, Samir Khalil Samir, SJ, on the question of "growing in office."

Benedict XVI is thus striving to find a middle way for all humanity that allows for the interrelation between religion, spirituality, reason, secularity and state.  Being in the Western world, he insists on a secularity which is “open” to the spiritual.  There thus exists continuity in the Pope’s speeches in Turkey with what he said at Regensburg, in looking for a way of communication between politics and religion, against the monopoly of religion on politics and against the monopoly of politics which excludes religion.

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