You had to hear Pope Benedict XVI speak French to understand his deep love for our country and its culture.
Chosen vocabulary, precise and reasoned sentences, almost perfect classic style, rich cultural references, he knew what he was talking about when he addressed France and the French.
Whether they are Catholic or not, moreover, because this intellectual pope held dialogue with secularism, with atheists and agnostics, in high esteem.
For him, it was an opportunity to best express the essence of Christianity through debate and the exchange of arguments, a discipline he cherished.
Far from the image of the abstruse and narrow conservative depicted by those who very often have never read him.
If John-Paul II was also a lover of France, in the almost carnal sense - he visited it eight times, as much as his native Poland -, Benedict XVI held in high esteem the French spirit, in its spiritual and philosophical depth, appreciating Especially…
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