Pope Benedict XVI
In 2005, Pope Benedict XVI took up the concerns of his predecessors in his first encyclical, Deus Caritas Est, where he raises some questions regarding Eros, body and the Church. (Did Christianity destroy Eros? Doesn't the Church, with all her commandments and prohibitions, turn to bitterness the most precious thing in life? Doesn't she blow the whistle just when the joy which is the Creator's gift offers us a happiness which is itself a certain foretaste of the Divine?)
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