Baku--Benedict XVI has expressed his admiration for the tiny Catholic community of about 300 in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, where 84% of the population is Muslim.Baku -- Benedict XVI Benedict XVI, 1927–, pope (2005–) and Roman Catholic theologian, a German (b. Marktl am Inn, Bavaria) named Josef (or Joseph) Alois Ratzinger; successor of John Paul II. He entered the seminary in 1939, but his training was interrupted by World War II. has expressed his admiration for the tiny Catholic community of about 300 in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, where 84% of the population is Muslim. Cardinal Sepe transmitted the Pope's sentiments in a homily homily (hŏm`əlē), type of oral religious instruction delivered to a church congregation. In the patristic period through the Middle Ages the focus of the homily was on the explanation and application of texts read or sung during the in the Catholic chapel of Baku, and then presided over a ceremony for the construction of a church to be dedicated to the Immaculate Conception Immaculate Conception In Roman Catholicism, the dogma that Mary was not tainted by original sin. Early exponents included St. Justin Martyr and St. Irenaeus; St. Bonaventure and St. Thomas Aquinas were among those who opposed it. . |
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