“For there is a time to fight and a time to make use of silence. If we truly possess the pedagogy of silence that comes from God, we will have a little of heaven’s patience.”


Sarah, Robert Cardinal with Nicolas Diat. The Power of Silence Against the Dictatorship of Noise. With an Afterword by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. Translated by Michael J. Miller. (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2017), page 154.

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    1. Yes. When Benedict XVI retired (and Francis was elected), it had been so long since a pope had retired that they had to come up with a new title that people would understand. And that’s what they hit on. Maybe it sounds better in Latin.

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