Can it be contended that he is quite wrong? Should “everything that now goes by the name of Christian” be defended against him? When he says of us, for instance: “If they want me to believe in their Savior, they’ll have to sing me better hymns! His followers will have to look more like men who have been saved!”—are we entitled to be indignant? To how many of us does Christianity really seem “something big, something with joy and enthusiasm”? Do the unbelievers who jostle us at every turn observe on our brows the radiance of that gladness which, twenty centuries ago, captivated the fine flower of the pagan world? Are our hearts the hearts of men risen with Christ? Do we, in our time, bear witness to the Beatitudes? In a word, while we are full alive to the blasphemy in Nietzsche’s terrible phrase and in its whole context, are we not also forced to see in ourselves something of what drove him to such blasphemy?

Ratzinger disse che la Chiesa non è “democrazia-sinodale”, ma non l’hanno ascoltato

“Siccome la Chiesa non è così come appare nei sogni, si cerca disperatamente di renderla come la si desidererebbe: un luogo in cui si possano esprimere tutte le libertà, uno spazio dove siano abbattuti i nostri limiti, dove si sperimenti quell’utopia che ci dovrà pur essere da qualche parte.” (Ratzinger 1990)

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