This past week, Pope Benedict XVI made a pastoral visit to Africa. In his visit, he was able to see for himself the state of the Church in Cameroon in other places that he visited. The Holy Father is in the midst of writing his next encylical on Social Justice. He is stress the need for conversion, forgiveness, dignity for human life, and changes in structures that continue to bind people to impossible situations.
On March 12, the Holy Father also published an incredible letter to all the bishops of the world, asking forgiveness for the mistake he made and the mistakes made by Vatican officials in not being more careful in receiving back into union with Rome the bishops that were ordained in the Traditional Latin Church. Bishop Williamson, deported from Argentina to his native England was advocating that Jews were not killed in the camps operated by the Nazi during WWII. The Holy Father apologized also to Jewish leaders that were offended. The remarkable aspect of this letter was a pope personally apologizing for personal and for the lack of oversight at the Vatican. He admitted that many things were already on the internet, and his people had not done their homework. The Holy Father truly models for all Catholics that we should admit our mistakes and ask forgiveness.
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