VATICAN CITY, MARCH 17, 2003 (Zenit.org).- Cardinal Joseph
\nRatzinger, who worked closely with John Paul II in the forthcoming encyclical
\non the Eucharist, has just published a book on this sacrament. <\/p>\n
"In the crisis of faith we are experiencing, the critical issue seems
\nto be increasingly the correct celebration and correct understanding of the
\nEucharist," the cardinal says in "An Intimate God" ("Il
\nDio Vicino," St. Paul Editions), which has just gone on sale in Italian. <\/p>\n
Vatican sources say the encyclical on the Eucharist will be published in April. <\/p>\n
"All of us know the difference between a Church that prays and a Church "Today we run the risk of having our churches turned into museums and VATICAN CITY, MARCH 17, 2003 (Zenit.org).- Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who worked closely with John Paul II in the forthcoming encyclical on the Eucharist, has just published a book on this…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liturgy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthat has b<\/span>een reduced to a museum," explains Cardinal Ratzinger, prefect
\nof the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. <\/p>\n
\nending like museums: If they are not closed, they are pillaged," he says. "They
\nhave no life. The measure of the Church’s vitality, the measure of its interior
\nopenness, will be reflected in the fact that its doors remain open, precisely
\nbecause it is a church where there is constant prayer.
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