Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Awakening the Church…in souls…

As a last nod to Pope Benedict XVI’s posthumous collection of essays and addresses, What Is Christianity?, I believe I should take a closer look at the famous intervention he wrote for the meeting of episcopal conference heads called by Pope Francis in 2019 to consider the sexual abuse crisis. Pope Francis, however, had no interest in introducing a comprehensive analysis by Pope Emeritus Benedict, and so the analysis was first published after the meeting, in April.