Saturday, April 23, 2011

Another GKC reference by Pope Benedict.

First, I want to wish everybody a very Happy Easter! :-)

Also, just came across another instance of Pope Benedict quoting Chesterton. :-)

Without conversion, however, we cannot come to Jesus, nor arrive at the gospel. There is a paradoxical saying of Chesterton's that expresses this circumstance exactly: "A saint can be recognised by the fact that he knows himself to be a sinner."

-The Essential Pope Benedict XVI: His Central Writings and Speeches, "Meditation on the Priesthood" (p. 272)

Here is an earlier post in which I detail three other occasions where the Pope references GKC

Other references to GKC by Pope Benedict.

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