Thursday, January 5, 2023

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:13 - 06:54)
An Unprecedented Event in the History of the Roman Catholic Church: Pope Francis Set to Preside Over Benedict XVI’s Funeral

Part II (06:54 - 10:31)
When the Papacy Pushed Back Against the Increasingly Hostile, Secular Age: What Cardinal Ratzinger Taught Me About Confronting Liberal Protestantism

Benedict’s Death Leaves Catholic Conservatives Bereft by New York Times (Jason Horowitz)

Part III (10:31 - 13:37)
The Dictatorship of Relativism and the Challenge of the Secular Age

Part IV (19:27 - 26:32)
The Criminologist Becomes a Criminal? In a Fallen World, Sinners Can Give Themselves to Sin Such That It Consumes Them. How Else Can We Understand a Criminologist Who Becomes a Serial Murderer?

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, January 5, 2023.
0:07.8	I'm Albert Molar, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from
0:12.2	a Christian worldview.
0:13.5	Well, a great deal of attention is going to be directed today toward St. Peter's Basilica
0:18.3	in Rome, where something unprecedented is going to happen.
0:22.3	And that is that a current pope is going to preside over the funeral of a former pope.
0:27.7	After all kinds of historical reasons, that's something new.
0:31.2	And especially in the age of the modern papacy, we're talking about something that until
0:35.3	recently would have been unthinkable.
0:37.6	The reason it would have been unimaginable is this.
0:41.2	Popes are understood to hold the office until their death.
0:44.2	Upon their death, their funeral, which is generally a very long period of observance, is
0:49.3	presided over by the College of Cardinals, and only after that funeral does the very
0:53.6	same body, the College of Cardinals choose the next pope.
0:57.9	But in this case, the unprecedented has happened precisely because Pope Benedict XVI resigned
1:04.0	or retired in 2013.
1:07.3	That's something that hadn't happened in the Roman Catholic Church for over 600 years.
1:11.6	And in terms of this retirement, Benedict XVI was doing something no previous pope had
1:17.2	basically done, at least on terms of retiring and continuing to be known in some sense as
1:24.0	a pope taking the title of Pope Emeritus.
1:27.4	Benedict XVI just created this particular pattern himself, and the questions that inevitably
1:33.4	arose about what to do with a Pope Emeritus continued all the way past his death on Saturday.
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