Pope Benedict XVI: Defender of the Faith - Interview with Joseph Pearce

Joseph Pearce joins the show to talk about his new book, Benedict XVI: Defender of the Faith.

[jdee]

Excellent conversation, very timely! God bless Pope Benedict XVI. We need a church that will move the world not with it...Amen!

[livingpurgatory]

I'm glad he recently got vindicated.

Jesus, Mary, I love you save souls!

[livingpurgatory]

Thank Benedict for bringing back the old Mass.
As Benedict said,
The destruction of the Church came with the destruction of the Mass.

[teresabaker-carl]

I loved this interview! There needs to be more. I already have an excellent reason to but this book!

[aloyalcatholic]

God bless you and God Bless Benedict 16th. I know people are angry at him right now, but last I checked, the only sinless human being is Our Lady, and of course Our Lord is Perfection itself.

[peaceandjoy]

Sincere thanks to Joseph Pearce, brilliant author and speaker, for this book on the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI. I believe this dear and holy Pope has done so much to steer the Church away from modernism. He has been disrespected and attacked by the heretical liberals because of his firm stance on the teachings of Our Lord. When it is his time to go home to the Father's House may Jesus be His secure refuge. He has been a faithful shepherd who suffered so much for his Lord.

[grahamcombs]

There is a brief moment in the Peter Seewald biography of the Holy Father Emeritus that humanizes Benedict and perhaps something more. There was a girl. He saw her for a year. Seewald asks if "it was love." Benedict answers, "Yes." Those of us who have stumbled slowly and haltingly toward the Church become Catholics for many reasons. One of mine is that as an American I wanted deeper roots than provided by Anglicanism and certainly the Constitution.

[m.proximus]

"It happened before the IIVC therefore it must be good."

I would say, rather, "it happened before the IIVC, modern churchmen have demonstrated as a body that they generally can't be trusted to distinguish good from less than good, so we shouldn't be going ANYWHERE new where theology, philosophy, catechesis, devotion are concerned right now."

[tubaceous]

I see in this conversation a great desire to present pope Benedict XVI as traditionalist, but I believe what he actually was turns on what was his input into Vatican 2. We know that he was a ‘peritus’ there and that German theological school provided decisive input into final ‘schemas’ of the council. Wouldn’t it be of importance to expound on this phase of his clerical career?

[livingpurgatory]

I think B16 gets a though rap. The poor guy was stuck in a bad time, surrounded by evil people. It think he did better than anyone else could.
Sr Lucia of Fatima said, God would not allow Russia to be consecrated to the Immaculate Heart until enough first Saturdays were done.
I remember watching EWTN, back when he was Pope, he was trying to spread the first Saturday devotion.
People need to realize much of what happens lies at the feet of the laity.

[michaelspeyrer]

Benedict XVI is not the Pope. He is Pope Emeritus, as in formerly.

[LeicesterTradCatholic]

Whilst I'm a fan of much of Joseph Pearce's work, I don't agree with his view that JP2 and Benedict XVI were a "dynamic duo" who fought back the tide of modernism. Both of these Popes themselves were tainted by modernism, illustrated by their failure to solidly uphold the Catholic dogma of Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus.