{"id":9638,"date":"2023-10-15T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T04:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9638"},"modified":"2023-10-08T21:57:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T04:57:33","slug":"homily-of-joseph-ratzinger-april-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9638","title":{"rendered":"HOMILY OF JOSEPH RATZINGER April 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A then mere cardinal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/gpII\/documents\/homily-pro-eligendo-pontifice_20050418_en.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/gpII\/documents\/homily-pro-eligendo-pontifice_20050418_en.html\">Ratzinger gave a prophetic homily April 18th, 2005<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is, letting oneself be &#8220;tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine&#8221;, seems the only attitude that can cope with modern times. <strong>We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one&#8217;s own ego and desires<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An &#8220;adult&#8221; faith is not a faith that follows the trends of fashion and the latest novelty; a mature adult faith is deeply rooted in friendship with Christ. It is this friendship that opens us up to all that is good and gives us a criterion by which to distinguish the true from the false, and deception from truth.<\/p>\n<cite>HOMILY OF HIS EMINENCE CARD. JOSEPH RATZINGER<br>DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A then mere cardinal Ratzinger gave a prophetic homily April 18th, 2005. Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is, letting oneself be &#8220;tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine&#8221;, seems the only attitude that can cope with modern times. We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one&#8217;s own&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9638\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-2vs","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9639,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9638\/revisions\/9639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}