Pope Urges 'Courage to Tell the Truth'
The Tocqueville ConnectionReceived Saturday, 10 February 2007 13:25:00 GMT
VATICAN CITY, Feb 10, 2007 (AFP) - Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday, citing the late Russian dissident Andrei Sakharov, urged the "courage to tell the truth" in both private and public life.
"True freedom consists of walking in the path of the truth, following one's own calling," he told a delegation from the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in Paris.
The pope urged "the courage to tell the truth and follow it, in personal as well as public life, to be free with respect to the world which often has the tendency to impose ways of seeing things and behavior to follow."
As Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1992, Benedict was awarded the chair left vacant at the academy when Sakharov died in 1989.
The 1975 Nobel Peace Prize laureate had "internal freedom" even when he was not free externally, Benedict said Saturday.
"No one can live only with exteriority and appearances, but develop interior life, unite being with acting," he added.
posted by Dr. Denice Hanley, DPM, M.Div. @ 3:55 PM
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