Just ten days after the death of Pope Benedict XVI on New Year’s Eve 2022, we were shocked by the news that Cardinal Pell, too, had preceded us into the house of the heavenly father. In the midst of the current battle for the “truth of the Gospel” (Gal. 2:14), the pilgrim church has lost two outstanding representatives of its apostolic doctrine. We grieve for them, but for those of us who believe with St. Augustine “that the Church advances safely on her pilgrimage between the persecutions of the world and the consolations of God,” we thank divine providence for having given us both Pope Benedict and Cardinal Pell as role models of the true faith, and as powerful advocates with the father.