How Q & A Sessions with the Pope Work. . .

. . .plus, a summary of a most recent one with priests in the north of Italy.


Mostly pastors with an opportunity to ask Pope Benedict questions, he was both candid, and regarding the environment he

minced no words in condemning what he termed the "brutal consumption of creation," and he called for an urgent renewal of the theology of creation.

Mr. John L. Allen's summary of this encounter is, as usual, crisp and full of background.
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