“At this start of the XXI century, new problems are challenging the Church. Of many of these problems, Your Holiness has spoken in his lectures to the whole Church in these first few months of his universal pastoral ministry and above all in his Encyclical, Deus caritas est”. This was said this morning, in his address to Benedict XVI, by father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, general prevost of Compagnia di Gesù, during the Pope’s audience with the writers of the Board of “La Civiltà Cattolica”. “Our magazine added father Kolvenbach means to move along the lines that have been provided by these documents, convinced as we are that they are moved through by the Holy Spirit, which Jesus gave to His Church to guide it to the whole truth through the happy and painful events of man’s history. However, we would be glad if Your Holiness could show us some perspectives that may help us serve better the Church and our time”. “La Civiltà Cattolica” was founded on the resolve of Pius IX first and then Leo XIII, then it was under the superior general of Compagnia di Gesù, and serves "faithfully – recalled Kolvenbach the guidelines and the wishes of the Holy See and with great love the Catholic Church, quae romana est, as taught us by our founder, Saint Ignatius Loyola”.
