Discussion on Catholic Church Challenges

In 2005,

during the audience I had with Pope Benedict,

at a certain moment

he asked me, "So

what's the situation? How, where are we?" Thinking of

how can we proceed, how, what can we do things better.

And I told the Holy Father, "Holy Father,

the situation

of the normal,

simply normal

Catholic life in the church

has been made largely

impossible.

And that is why

every day

priests, religious, nuns, faithful

can no longer in conscience continue

that,

and they come to us begging for help."

And I continued telling him, "As long as this

Catholic life is not made possible again in the

church, we will not be able to proceed and to

continue."

And Pope Benedict did not deny it.

He said, "Well, I understand.

We will have to proceed by steps,

but

there is... We, we must not delay too much." But he

did not deny that situation