«Seeking the truth» is more important than «the taunts of the world, so apparently clever»; and «the courage to stand firm in the truth is unavoidably demanded of those whom the Lord sends like sheep among the wolves.» The Church today celebrates the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord, and Pope Benedict XVI, presiding at holy Mass in the Vatican Basilica, has ordained four new Bishops «who will now cooperate, in different ways, in the ministry of the Pope for the unity of the one Church of Jesus Christ in the multiplicity of the Particular Churches.» In his homily, the Pope traced the parallelism between the figure of the Bishop and that of «the Wise Men from the East who, guided by the star, made …
