If Buddhism is attractive, it is because it appears as a possibility of touching the infinite and obtaining happiness without having any concrete religious obligations. A spiritual auto-eroticism of some sort. Someone had rightly predicted in the 1950s that the challenge to the Church in the twentieth century would not be Marxism, but Buddhism.
More from Benedict XVI (Pope)
'Deeper understanding of the matter is bound to recognize that the Temple, as well as the synagogue, entered into Christian liturgy.'
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