{"id":4588,"date":"2006-02-15T08:21:58","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T08:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/02\/magister-on-the-pope.html"},"modified":"2006-02-15T08:21:58","modified_gmt":"2006-02-15T08:21:58","slug":"magister-on-the-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/02\/magister-on-the-pope.html","title":{"rendered":"Magister on the Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"

Magister’s in the US at the moment. He spoke in DC on Monday, and is in Denver some time this week.<\/a><\/p>\n

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 <\/span>Sandro Magister, a columnist for the Italian magazine L\u2019Espresso and one of the top \u201cVaticanistas\u201d, an expert on Church affairs and the intricate world of the Vatican, gave yesterday an interview in Washington to Catholic leaders. He drew on the first months of Benedict XVI\u2019s pontificate, and the current situation of the Catholic Church. The event took place at the Cosmos Club in Washington DC, and was sponsored by the Athanasius Conferences -an iniciative of the Morley Institute- and Catholic News Agency.<\/span><\/p>\n

Magister affirms it is possible to identify a clear and coherent direction  in the beginning of Pope Benedict\u2019s pontificate. He particularly recalls the pope\u2019s first Mass at  Saint John Lateran, the cathedral of the bishop of Rome, on Saturday, May 7.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn it, Benedict XVI asserted that the pope \u201cmust not proclaim his own ideas, but rather constantly bind himself and the Church to obedience to God’s Word, in the face of every attempt to adapt it or water it down, and every form of opportunism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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