{"id":472,"date":"2008-03-05T08:43:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T08:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/03\/and-you-thought-he-was-finished.html"},"modified":"2008-03-05T08:43:41","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T08:43:41","slug":"and-you-thought-he-was-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/03\/and-you-thought-he-was-finished.html","title":{"rendered":"And you thought he was finished.."},"content":{"rendered":"

…since he wrapped up Augustine last week?
\nNope!
\nToday…Leo I (the Great)<\/a><\/p>\n

The Roman primacy in the Church is “necessary”, today as in the past it is “at the service of truth and charity” and “serves communion” in the one Church of Christ.\u00a0 Benedict XVI made the remarks during the illustration of the figure of St Leo the Great, to whom he dedicated today’s address for the general audience, to again assert the purpose of Petrine primacy and to recall its existence since the time of the undivided Church.\u00a0 The affirmation comes on the eve of a visit from ecumenical patriarch Bartholomew I to the Vatican, and shortly after the Catholic-Orthodox meeting in Ravenna, which acknowledged the principle of the primacy of the bishop of Rome, leaving open the question of its concrete exercise in relation to the role of the synod.
\nAt today’s general audience, which\u00a0 was again divided into two segments because of the great number of the faithful who were split between the basilica of Saint Peter and the Paul VI hall, the pope continued his reflection on the Fathers of the Church, speaking of St. Leo the Great,<\/a> “one of the greatest pontiffs ever to have honoured the Roman see”, “the first pope whose preaching has come down to our time”.
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\nHe was “a theologian and pastor, at the service of communion and a tireless promoter of Roman primacy, showing himself an authentic heir of the apostle Peter, and the Eastern bishops also showed in their awareness of this”.\u00a0 So it was in 451, when the Council of Chalcedon addressed the “Christological controversy”, affirming the union in the one person of Christ, without confusion and without separation, of his two natures as true God and true man.\u00a0 The principle was affirmed by Leo in an important doctrinal text that was read at Chalcedon and “welcomed with significant acclamation”.\u00a0
\nThe primacy of the pope is, therefore, a “primacy of communion”, “at the service of truth and charity” and “also at the service of communion among the different Churches”.\u00a0 Citing Leo, the pope finally repeated: “what was communicated to all the apostles was entrusted to only one of them”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bartholomew will, indeed, be in Rome tomorrow on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the Pontifical Oriental Institute. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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