Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

A German conflagration may engulf the Church within the next year, and there is no fire extinguisher…..

This Holy Saturday the entire Catholic Church will turn its eyes toward Benedict XVI. It will be his 95th birthday and his liturgical birthday. Both coincide this year for the last time in the long life of Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger (unless he lives until his 106th birthday in 2033). In 1927, April 16 fell on Holy Saturday, as it does again this year…