"I believe that the celibacy" of the priests "has a great meaning" and is "indispensable for our journey towards God to remain the foundation of our life". Benedict XVI says this in a four-handed book with Cardinal Robert Sarah, which will be released on January 15 and of which Le Figaro publishes advances. "I can not keep silent" write Ratzinger and Sarah quoting a sentence from St. Augustine . This option has entered the final document, while the decision of Pope Francis is awaited which will have to pronounce itself with the post-synodal apostolic exhortation. Document that could be published in the coming months.
To refer to the last Synod, however, speaking of "a strange media Synod that prevailed over the real Synod", are the same Ratzinger and card. Sarah who is the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and in a sense the representative of that conservative wing that is in the Vatican. "We met, we exchanged our ideas and our concerns," write Ratzinger and Sarah, according to the anticipations of their outgoing book published by the French newspaper Le Figaro.
"I can't be silent", they write relaunching Sant'Agostino. "We do it in a spirit of love and unity in the Church. If ideology divides, truth unites hearts".
Benedict XVI, an indispensable celibacy, cannot be silent
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His 'no to compromises' in a book with Cardinal Sarah (ANSA)
