The world—and to an extent the Church, at least since the 1960s—has been preoccupied with the person and his or her comfort. Pope Benedict XVI, for a short time, represented a break from this way of thinking. He gently demanded the individual reorient himself to God. Instead of taking the easy way of the world that asks nothing, Benedict reminded everyone that we needed Christ, even if accepting the Lord was a hard proposition that required sacrifice and rejecting the world. Benedict pushed back against a world with no objective standards and taught that there was a Standard. The world was not the end-all and be-all of existence; there was something better through the friendship of Jesus Christ.
At the same time, through his different initiatives and writings Benedict taught that Christ was always there to meet the person where he happened to be. We only had to turn to Christ and His Church.
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