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On the second anniversary of his appointment as the pope, the leader of the Catholic Church reaffirms his commitment to faith – and reason. |
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Often divisive
During his 24-year-long work as the Vatican's chief theologian, and now as the spiritual leader of the world's 1 billion plus Catholics, Ratzinger has often divided people.
While Catholic liberals have complained that he has blocked reforms, his back-to-basics emphasis on following Jesus Christ has caught the focus of many mainstream Catholics in his German homeland.
And while critics in Italy accuse him of interfering in the internal affairs of a sovereign state by lambasting government attempts to grant some rights to homosexual couples, intellectuals across Europe appreciate his efforts to bring back values to an increasingly secular society.
As Sandro Magister, a papal expert who writes for Italian weekly L'Espresso, put it: "Benedict is extremely concerned about the destiny of mankind, particularly of a mankind that lives in a modern society that appears to have lost the ability to distinguish between good and bad, right from wrong."
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