VATICAN CITY (AP) – Noong Lunes ng Abril 4, 2005, isang pari ang naglakad patungo sa Renaissance palazzo na tinutuluyan ng doctrine department ng Vastican at hiniling sa doorman na tawagin ang official in charge: Ito ang unang araw ng trabaho matapos pumanaw si Pope John Paul II, at nais ng cleric na simulan ang pagappatuloy sa trabaho.
Ang No. 2 ng opisina, si Archbishop Angelo Amato, ang sumagot ng tawag sa telepono at nagulantang. Hindi siay isang ordinaryong pari. Siya si Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, ang kanyang boss, na sa ilalim ng Vatican’s arcane rules ay teknikal na nawalan ng kanyang trabaho nang pumanaw si John Paul.
“It tells me of the great humility of the man, the great sense of duty, but also the great awareness that we are here to do a job,” sabi ni Bishop Charles Scicluna, na nakasama sa trabaho ni Ratzinger bago maging si Pope Benedict XVI, sa loob ng Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Sa pagreretiro, ani Scicluna, ipinakita ni Benedict ang parehong sense of humility, duty and service gaya ng ipinamalas niya sa unang araw na nawalan ng huling papa ang Simbahang Katoliko.
“He has done his job.”
Sa pagsisimula ng pagreretiro ni Benedict sakay ng helicopter noong Huwebes (Biyernes ng madaling araw sa Pilipinas), iiwanan niya ang isang simbahang nahaharap sa krisis — isang simbahan na binabagabag ng sex scandal, internal divisions at lumiliit na bilang.
Ngunit may isang bahay na mabibilang ng 85-anyos na papa kanyang matibay na pamana: Habang ang kanyang mismong pagbibitiw ay maituturing na kanyang pinakamahalagan gawa, Benedict — in a quieter way — also set the church back on a conservative, traditionminded path.
He was guided by the firm conviction that many of the ills afflicting the church could be traced to a misreading of the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
He insisted that the 1962-65 meetings that brought the church into the modern era were not a radical break from the past, as portrayed by many liberals, but rather a continuation of the best traditions of the 2,000-yearold church.
Benedict was the teacher pope, a theology professor who turned his Wednesday general audiences into master classes about the Catholic faith and the history, saints and sinners that contributed to it.
In his teachings, he sought to boil Christianity down to its essential core. He didn’t produce volumes of encyclicals like his predecessor, just three: on charity, hope and love. (He penned a fourth, on faith, but retired before finishing it.)
Considered by many to be the greatest living theologian, he authored more than 65 books, stretching from the classic “Introduction to Christianity” in 1968 to the final installment of his triptych on “Jesus of Nazareth” last year — considered by some to be his most important contribution to the church. In between he produced the “Catechism of the Catholic Church” — essentially a how-to guide to being a Catholic.
Benedict spent the bulk of his early career in the classroom, as a student and then professor of dogma and fundamental theology at universities in Bonn, Muenster, Tuebingen and Regensburg, Germany.
“His classrooms were crowded,” recalled the Rev. Joseph Fessio, a theology student of Ratzinger’s at the University of Regensburg from 197274, and now the English-language publisher of his books.
“I don’t recall him having notes,” Fessio said. “He would stand at the front of the class, and he wasn’t looking at you, not with eye contact, but he was looking over you, almost meditating.”
It’s a style that he’s kept for 40 years.
“If you hear him give a sermon, he’s speaking not from notes, but you can write it down and print it,” Fessio said. “Every comma is there. Every pause.”
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