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Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 11:45 AM CST
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To understand the attraction that the secularized American model has for Pope Benedict XVI, we must go back to his Christmas Address to the Curia on December 22, 2005. In this address, which gave the program of his pontificate, he defended an "hermeneutic of continuity" of Vatican II, and strove to show that the novelties introduced by the Council, such as religious liberty, ecumenism, or interreligious dialogue, were inscribed in the constant Tradition of the Church. He acknowledged, however, that Vatican II had sought to "determine in a new way the relationship between the Church and the modern era." He justified this evolution by a change of historical circumstances where the United States played a major role.
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