It was with great sadness that I received the news of the demise of Pope Benedict XVl on Dec.31st while I was attending the burial of Prof.K.K.Mathew at the Cathedral Cemetery at Chy. It was at a funeral earlier, eight years ago ,that we received the news of his resignation. Deepika issued a souvenir on that occasion where my article on the Pope was also included. Pope Benedict was a great theologian and his explanations of the doctrines of the Church and the dogmas of the Faith are very clear. He was really an intellectual with immense depth of knowledge. He is undoubtedly one of the great theologians of our time. The interviews he has given to Peter Seewald were really reappraisals of the doctrines of the faith as applied to concrete situations.
The following are a few quotes from his book, Eschatology, on the Last Judgment.:
"The truth which has emerged as the fundamental orientation of man's existence in all the pathways of his life(is the judgment on on his life.).
Judgment is the truth of a man which has emerged as the fundamental orientation of his existence.
In terms of the sum total of decisions from out of which an entire life is constructed, the final direction may be , in the end, a fumbling after readiness for God, valid no matter what wrong turnings have been taken by and by.
God knows the shadows of our freedom better than we do ourselves."
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