"The Church, since the very start of its life, has spoken all the languages and lived in all the cultures". It was said, off the cuff, by the Pope who, in today’s special audience in the presence of Karekin II, lingered in particular on the figure and action of the Holy Spirit and its relevance to the "fruits" and progress of the ecumenical path. The Church, Benedict XVI went on, also off the cuff, "does not destroy anything of its history but sums up everything in a new unity that reconciles unity and diversity". From this perspective, the Holy Spirit is "eternal love, that binds with its strength the scattered men and thus also creates the multiform and large community of the Church all over the world". The "breathe" of the Holy Spirit, in the words uttered off the cuff at today’s audience in Saint Peter’s Square in front of about 20 thousand devotees , is "the effort of forgiving sins, of renewing our hearts and our lives, and thus creates unity where there was division", overcoming "Babylon’s scattering".
