The Pope will travel next to Mexico and Cuba year

Visits by the Pope to Spain to preside over the world youth day; Germany, which said that the Church must rid its earthly wealth and power politics, and Benin, where said that AIDS is an ethical problem, marked 2011, year in which was beatified Juan Pablo II.

Defying the heat and the health of an old man of 84 years, aches Benedict XVI travelled for the third time to Spain, the most visited country with his Germany home in the six years of pontificate, to meet in Madrid with some two million young people from around the world.

In the considered greatest concentration of Catholics in Europe, Pope Benedict XVI asked that "they have no fear, nor complex" to proclaim what they are, but warned that "cannot continue to Jesus without following the Church".

Also encouraged him to not be intimidated "by an environment that is intended to exclude God and power, having or pleasure are often the main" u000a"criteria governing the existence".

Benedict XVI, whose visit was harshly criticized by gay and even Christian-based, secular, collective groups denounced relativism who "despises the search for the truth" and once again reiterated the indissolubility of marriage, stating that the only valid one is between a man and a woman.

Benedict XVI announced that Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, will be the headquarters of the twenty-seventh World Youth Day to be held in 2013.

But before going for a second time to Brazil, Benedict XVI is planning to travel to Mexico and Cuba in the spring of next year, the first time you step Latin-speaking Spanish.

If in Madrid requested radical youth, Germany delivered a strong speeches to passed to the history of the papacy by its harsh self-criticism, in which said that the Church needed a "strong renewal", which has to "take off" their wealth u000aearthly and their political power and be open to the concerns of the world.

In the land of Protestantism, Ratzinger said that since decades ago we are witnessing a decline in religious practice and that the Church instead of opening to the concerns of the world, settles and becomes self-sufficient.

No uncertain terms, Benedict XVI said that the damage to the Church are not adversaries, "but the lukewarm Christians" and assured that an agnostic is closer to God than these "worshippers of routine who only see in the Church the pageantry, without being touched by faith".

All this has led to reconvene a year of the faith, which will begin on October 11, 2012, until 24 November 2013.

Benedict XVI returned to meet with victims of sexual abuse by clergy, this time in Germany, and ceased to Bishops involved in cases which occurred in Ireland, where the Government accused the Vatican of having obstructed the investigations and closed its u000aEmbassy to the Holy seat.

During his trip to Germany extolled Martin Luther (1483-1546) and said that the questions are towards "how Dios lies about me, how I pharnaces I before God?" should be "in a new manner in a question of our".

For the second time Ratzinger traveled to Africa, this time Benin, where urged Africans not afraid of modernity, but he warned them that you do not fall into the "unconditional submission to the forces of the market or finance".

He implored "justice, peace and reconciliation" for these peoples, but he pointed out that to make it possible perpetrators of the crimes must be brought in the hands of justice.

On his first visit he lifted a strong controversy to say that AIDS is not fought with condoms, this said that the pandemic requires a medical response, but it is above all "an ethical problem".

In this 2011, six years and one month after his death and before more of u000aone million people, John Paul II (1920-2005) was elevated to the glory of the altars by his successor, which was not the case since towards thousand.

In the more crowded beatification in history, Benedict XVI said that "the burden of hope given to Marxism and the ideology of progress", Wojtyla her "legitimately" claimed for Christianity.

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