That’s the only line of St. Augustine’s “Confessions” I recall from college. Read into that what you will. Turns out Pope kinda agrees with me on this one.
Benedict XVI said Wednesday that Augustine’s desire to be good but reluctance to give up the spoils of youth should have a lot of resonance for today’s moral toddlers.
He says that Augustin, a figure of “singular relevance” in the history of the Church and of Christian literature, had “extremely robust intelligence, but was not always a model student”‘; he had widely varied experiences; he sought, at first, moral rules that were not too burdensome; he was anxious to know the Truth.
Benedict XVI illustrated the figure of the saint of Hippo to the six thousand persons present for the general audience in the Paul VI hall, and announced that he will dedicate his upcoming catecheses to this most prolific of the Fathers of the Church.
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