{"id":2731,"date":"2006-04-23T23:33:54","date_gmt":"2006-04-23T23:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/a-little-night-music.html"},"modified":"2006-04-23T23:33:54","modified_gmt":"2006-04-23T23:33:54","slug":"a-little-night-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/a-little-night-music.html","title":{"rendered":"A little night music"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gerald at Closed Cafeteria translates an article from German about the Pope’s recent attendance at a concert<\/a><\/p>\n

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Visibly happy, Pope Benedict XVI enjoyed a concert Saturday evening, featuring music by Mozart. The mayor of Rome had invited the Pope to celebrate Benedict’s one year anniversary, and to celebrate the birthday of Rome. Pope Benedict said he "accepted the invitation gladly and with great joy" and thanked the mayor for "the celebratory and yet familiar evening" with compositions of Mozart which the Pope loves dearly. He also is known to play Mozart on the piano.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Over at the Papa Ratzinger Forum, two more translations<\/a>: on of an article in 30 Days<\/em> about Ratzinger as a young professor:<\/p>\n

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Bonn in those years was the almost accidental capital of Adenauer\u2019s Germany. In the divided land, whose eastern states were behind the Iron Curtain, economic and civilian rebirth was proceeding at a dizzying pace. In the 1957 elections, the Christian Democratic Party had won an absolute majority in Parliament. After the Nazi nightmare, the German Church, with deserved pride, offered an essential contribution to Germany\u2019s new beginning. <\/p>\n

In an atmosphere that could have encouraged triumphalism, the young professor-priest Ratzinger had just written an article in 1958 for the magazine Hochland<\/em> some reflections arising from his brief but intense pastoral experience as a chaplain in the parish of the Most Prescious Blood in Bogenhausen, an haut-bourgeois section of Munich. <\/p>\n

In that article, he uses the term \u201cstatistical deception\u201d for the clich\u00e9 that described Europe as \u201ca Continent that is almost totally Christian.\u201d The Church in the postwar modern world appeared to him instead as \u201ca Church of pagans \u2013 no longer, as in the past, a church of pagans who have become Christian, but a Church of pagans that still call themselves Christian but who have really become pagans<\/strong>.\u201d <\/p>\n

He tells of a new paganism \u201cwhich is growing ceaselessly in the heart of the Church and threatens to demolish it from the inside.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And…why he makes so much sense to so many of now, 40 years later:<\/p>\n

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The Redemptorist Viktor Hahn, who would become the first to earn a doctorate under Ratzinger, adds: \u201cThe hall was always overflowing. The students adored him. He used beautiful simple language \u2013 the language of a believer.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Roman Angulanza, one of his first students in Bonn, explains: \u201cHe appears to have reformulated even the way of writing lectures. He would read his drafts over the kitchen table to his sister Maria, a very intelligent woman but one who had never studied theology. If his sister was pleased, he took it as a sign that the lecture was well written.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And, if you scroll down a couple of posts, a rather startling interview with Uta Ranke-Heinemann, a well-known theologian famous (infamous) for being excommunicated…<\/p>\n

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