"By electing Pope Joseph Ratzinger, the Catholic Church demonstrated, above all, its historical vitality and its proven wisdom as a political body, albeit of a very special kind. Indeed, faced with a difficult succession, its supreme assembly did not resort to compromise or half measures. It decisively cut the Gordian knot, demonstrating what a long-standing and conscious relationship with the dimension of leadership means. And it made a choice. It did not choose a surly conservative or a nosy inquisitor: despite many fears and many prejudices, Joseph Ratzinger is not that. Above all, he is a witness to our epochal drama, a man who is aware that – in the fiery blaze of time – entire historical universes, entire anthropological and cultural worlds that have shaped us for centuries, are in danger of being annihilated and disappearing; and he feels that, far from representing any kind of progress, this only paves the way to nothingness."
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