‘The one who has hope lives differently.” That comes from Pope Benedict XVI’s 2007 encyclical Spe Salvi (“Saved by Hope”). (When he came to the United States in 2008, the Archdiocese of Washington took out ads on buses and trains with the quote.) He wrote:
If we only took that away from the life of Pope Benedict XVI, it would be more than enough. And yet he has books and talks and scholarship, some of which haven’t even been translated from his native German. As pope, he talked regularly about holy men and women and the how and the why of their lives. It was the same how and why of his life: Jesus Christ.
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