Saving Europe: Pope Benedict XVI's Missionary Work

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Professor Stephen Bainbridge (UCLA Law) has a insightful article over at Tech Central Station on the ascension of Benedict XVI to the papacy. As Bainbridge notes in his article, the new Pope-named after the Patron Saint of Europe-with pursue the preservation of the Catholic Church in Europe.

As I've noted in previous posts, the Catholic Church is hemorrhaging in Europe due to the secular culture of Europe that has introduced more and more destructive ideas like multi-culturalism, relativism, eugenics (Right To Die-Hey they don't want to offend). As the modern day version of Saint Benedict, Pope Benedict XVI has got to be the leader who uses all his powers to save Christianity in Europe and to a lesser extent in America. Unless he stands firm and pushes the moral truths of the Church back into the forefront of the Dioceses throughout Europe, Christianity and the Western tradition could be wiped clean from the European slate with the enormous growth of Islam in Europe.

While people in the media have argued that Pope Benedict XVI was elected to be the caretaker of the Catholic Church, I believe he was elected to be the caretaker of Europe. I think Professor Bainbridge put it best in his article, when he wrote:

In God and the World: A Conversation with Peter Seewald, for example, then-Cardinal Ratzinger predicted that the Western Roman Catholic Church (and indeed all strains of Christianity) were shrinking and essentially would "have to start over again" with a new missionary mission:

We will have to be missionaries, above all in the sense that we keep before the eyes of society those values that ought to form its conscience, values that are the basis of its political existence and of a truly human community.

I hope that the Pontiff can succeed in his missionary work throughout the World an especially in Europe. Pope Benedict XVI has to get out there and grease the squeaky wheels of Europe's many Catholic Churches to make sure Christianity doesn't fall flat on its face in the near future. After reading this piece by Brian C. Anderson in the Spring 2004 issue of The Public Interest, I suspect the Holy Father has some serious missionary work before him. Anything is possible though when you speak the truth and have the good Lord by your side. (Hey, he's the Pope-Has direct line with the Big Guy.) I bid him great success in his work.