{"id":1792384,"date":"2023-01-01T16:48:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T21:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1792384"},"modified":"2023-01-01T16:49:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T21:49:12","slug":"stand-firm-in-the-faith-pope-benedict-xvis-final-message-to-the-faithful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stand-firm-in-the-faith-pope-benedict-xvis-final-message-to-the-faithful\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stand Firm In The Faith!\u2019 Pope Benedict XVI\u2019s Final Message To The Faithful"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstand-firm-in-the-faith-pope-benedict-xvis-final-message-to-the-faithful%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1792384&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Pope Emeritus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-pope-emeritus-benedict-xvi-dead-at-95\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Benedict XVI<\/a> Submitted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/catholic-church\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catholics<\/a> To \u201cstand firm in the faith\u201d In his last message to the faithful.<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican published the late pope\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/vatican-city\/news\/2022-12\/the-spiritual-testament-of-pope-emeritus-benedict-xvi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spiritual testament<\/a> He died on Saturday, shortly thereafter. Benedict thanked his friends, family and God for their blessings and asked for forgiveness from those he had wronged. He encouraged believers to remain strong in their faith, despite philosophical and scientific opposition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf in this late hour of my life I look back at the decades I have been through, first I see how many reasons I have to give thanks,\u201d Benedict wrote. \u201cFirst and foremost I thank God himself, the giver of every good gift, who gave me life and guided me through various confusing times; always picking me up whenever I began to slip and always giving me again the light of his face. In retrospect I see and understand that even the dark and tiring stretches of this journey were for my salvation and that it was in them that He guided me well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then thanked his parents, for providing him with a safe and loving home, and role models for his faith. He also thanked the brother and sister who cared for him and guided him through his journey. He also thanked former students, coworkers, and friends. He thanked God and all of the beauty he had seen on his trips to Rome and Italy, and for his beautiful home in Bavaria. He asked forgiveness for anyone he had wronged in his life.<\/p>\n<p>Benedict instructed Catholics to keep their faith despite opposition from science or philosophy. \u201cStand firm in the faith!\u201d He wrote. \u201cDo not let yourselves be confused! It often seems that science \u2014 the natural sciences on the one hand and historical research (especially exegesis of Sacred Scripture) on the other \u2014 are able to offer irrefutable results at odds with the Catholic faith. I have experienced the transformations of the natural sciences since long ago and have been able to see how, on the contrary, apparent certainties against the faith have vanished, proving to be not science, but philosophical interpretations only apparently pertaining to science.\u201d He also observed that science can help define the parameters of faith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is now sixty years that I have been accompanying the journey of Theology, particularly of the Biblical Sciences, and with the succession of different generations I have seen theses that seemed unshakable collapse, proving to be mere hypotheses,\u201d The pope continued, citing liberalism, Existentialism, Marxism, and other examples of philosophical ideas that have gone and come.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw and see how out of the tangle of assumptions the reasonableness of faith emerged and emerges again. Jesus Christ is truly the way, the truth and the life \u2014 and the Church, with all its insufficiencies, is truly His body,\u201d He stated.<\/p>\n<p>A spiritual testament is a document that is written for the faithful by the pope \u2014 and is only to be published after his death. The late Pope Emeritus\u2019s spiritual testament was written in 2006, just over a year after he was elected to the papacy.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Saturday, Benedict\u2019s secretary, Archbishop Georg G\u00e4nswein, revealed that the Pope\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/aleteia.org\/2022\/12\/31\/benedicts-last-words-jesus-i-love-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">final words<\/a> were \u201cLord, I love you,\u201d a phrase reminiscent of St. Peter\u2019s confession to Jesus in the Bible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI told Catholics to \u201cstand firm in the faith\u201d in his final message to the faithful. The Vatican published the late pope\u2019s spiritual testament shortly after his death on Saturday. In it, Benedict thanked his family, friends, and God for the blessings of his life, and asked forgiveness from anyone whom he &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1792387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[12174,6202,5250,12809,8762,5246,5776,9592,8176,6195,12773],"class_list":["post-1792384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-benedict","tag-daily","tag-faith","tag-faithful","tag-final","tag-firm","tag-message","tag-pope","tag-stand","tag-wire","tag-xvis"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1792387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}