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We Can Celebrate Pope Benedict By Keeping ‘Encounter’ And ‘Truth’ At The Center Of Christianity

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When our first son was born in 2020, my wife and I named him Benedict, in part after the witness of the tremendous Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who died Saturday morning in Rome at age 95. Benedict will forever be remembered for his deep faith and capacity to transmit church teachings with cogency and depth, but what stands out perhaps more than anything else from his writings, speeches, and life is the stress he placed on two realities concerned with being a Christian: encounter and truth.

In his encyclical (formal letter written by a pope) called Deus Caritas Est (“God

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