One of the positive fruits of this papacy has been the return of most of the Pope's great encyclicals to a firm basis in the Bible.
This has always been the case in Catholicism, but it has not always been so directly apparent.
The strength of this article is that it, too, keeps returning to the underlying biblical texts.
"The Holy Fathers reflections help us understand both the importance of this moment of his papacy and our own aging and ailments. He manifests the truth of the Psalmists words: "The just will flourish like the palm-tree, and grow like a Lebanon cedar, ... still bearing fruit when they are old, still full of sap, still green, to proclaim that the Lord is just" (Psalm 92)."