In remarks at the start of the service, Benedict recalled that the red color of the three-pointed hat, or biretta, and the scarlet cassock that cardinals wear, symbolizes the blood that cardinals must be willing to shed to remain faithful to the church.
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On January 19, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI addressed U.S. bishops who were in Rome for their ad limina visits.
Ad limina: Bishops are periodically required to give the Pope an account of the state of their dioceses and receive his admonitions and counsels. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15478a.htm
The Catholic Courier (newspaper of the New York Diocese of Rochester) reported the Pope warned of “radical secularism” threatening religious freedom in the United States.
“Of particular concern are certain attempts being made to limit that most cherished of American freedoms, the freedom of religion. Many of you have pointed out that concerted efforts have been made to deny the right of conscientious objection on the part of Catholic individuals and institutions with regard to cooperation in intrinsically evil practices. Others have spoken to me of a worrying tendency to reduce religious freedom to mere freedom of worship without guarantees of respect for freedom of conscience.”
The pope called on the U.S. church to counter cultural currents that, on the basis of individualism, “promote notions of freedom detached from moral truth.”
Pope Benedict said America’s consensus on the nature of reality and the moral good has long been shaped by faith and a commitment to ethical principles derived from natural law.
“Today that consensus has eroded significantly in the face of powerful new cultural currents which are not only directly opposed to core moral teachings of the Judeo-Christian tradition, but increasingly hostile to Christianity as such.”
[Emphasis added.]
Source: Religious liberty for all? By Amy Kotlarz/Catholic Courier – Jan 30, 2012
http://www.catholiccourier.com/news/world-nation/religious-liberty-for-all/
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