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From the outset, Bergoglio wanted to break with papal continuity, challenge what had been handed down, confuse it or simply cause "chaos", as Javier Martinez-Brocal says in his new book.

— Peter Seewald

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As quoted in Nico Spuntoni, Il biografo di Ratzinger smentisce Bergoglio: "Nessuna continuità tra loro", ilgiornale.it (April 11, 2024)

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Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

He is the most widely read theologian of the contemporary age, with over 13 million copies of his books on Jesus in circulation. Symposiums on him are held all over the world.

Non ci sono due Ratzinger, ce n'è uno solo che pratica la teologia non contro ma con la Chiesa. Per scrivere la sua biografia ho intervistato più di cento persone che lo conoscono, sono andate a scuola con lui, hanno studiato sotto di lui o per lui. E come giornalista che lo ha accompagnato per quasi 30 anni, sono convinto che questa definizione sia sbagliata.

Islam has a total organization of life that is completely different from ours; it embraces simply everything. There is a very marked subordination of woman to man; there is a very tightly knit criminal law, indeed, a law regulating all areas of life, that is opposed to our modern ideas about society. One has to have a clear understanding that it is not simply a denomination that can be included in the free realm of a pluralistic society.

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