If the conservative reformer suddenly appear 
Roland Breitenbach, well-known priest from Schweinfurt, informed us blessed with one of his literary excellence:
If the church
makes business as usual,
it comes to that point,
where they already
was before yesterday.
How right the man, you see, when a quote from Pope Benedict XVI. next is:
[The Church] is also young in the sense that their faith as it were, from the fresh source of God himself comes from so that is where it's really New and Renewing there. This is not a stale fare that we have for 2000 years and is heated again and again, but God himself is the source of all youth and all life.
And if faith is a gift that comes from him as it were, the fresh water that is given to us again and again with the life we can and we speak as a force in the paths may feed the world - then Church just a rejuvenating force.
There is a church father who has seen the church and saw this strange, that it is over not years older, but younger and younger because more and more goes to meet the Lord, that is more and more toward the spring from which youth comes from the novelty, refreshment, and the power of life.
It is tragic when the stale slogans of yesterday's modernity seem suddenly out of fashion today. A telling example of why the church should beware of pandering to the Zeitgeist, like the devil in front of holy water. Or, as the Munich Archbishop Cardinal Reinhard Marx once put it:
who marries the Zeitgeist is, tomorrow Widower. Pärt
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