Mons. Georg Gänswein: A week after the death of Pope Francis

RATZINGER FOUNDATION / UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Evangelization.
Believing, thinking, and celebrating
according to
J. Ratzinger / Benedict XVI
Pamplona (Spain)
April 28-30, 2025

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2025
Location: Aula Magna, Central Building

10:00 Final report: Faith, Reason and University Mons. Gänswein, Nunzio apostolico in Lituania, Estonia e Lettonia
Evangelizzazione. L'eredità di Joseph Ratzinger/Benedetto XVI

The Church's primary missionary task is the announcement of Christ and of His Gospel, together with the subsidiary functions of human, social and cultural promotion of all people. The very heart of our task always remains: to make God known, Who comes to us in Christ, and gives us the Gospel which makes of us the Church and the People of God.

Liberation theology is first of all liberation, by Jesus Christ, from slavery to the devil and to sin.

The Gospel presupposes culture; it does not substitute it but molds it.

Without God man--image of God--does not know himself. And a society without God does not succeed in finding the rules of justice and of peace and becomes a slave to the structures of sin, the central nucleus of which is precisely the ignorance of God.

Religions cannot save nor liberate. Only Jesus Christ can accomplish this salvation and liberation from the devil and from sin. Only the Truth in Person can fully liberate from evil and from sin. The encounter with Christ, inseparable from the Church, is the fundamental event for the liberation and the healing of all persons and all peoples. Reconciliation and peace with God in Jesus Christ is even the necessary condition to build a reconciled society, a society of justice and peace. And it is therefore necessary to broaden the perspectives...for an efficacious and lasting salvation.

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Also of interest is this address by Tracey Rowland
Prof. Tracey Rowland, Notre Dame University, Australia
Milestones along the Path of Modernity’s Closure of the Rational Mind

Here is last year's lecture by her on the thought of Joseph Ratzinger, "Defending Hellenism," Notre Dame University. Go to minute 26:20.

"Christianity is the religion of the Logos."