Benedict XVI

[arisbe]

The Romans have a new Pope. What this means for my own Church remains to be seen.

JP II and Cardinal Ratzinger were a team, the good cop and the bad cop, when, by all reports, the good cop role would suit Ratzinger's private character better. If he can make the transition from sheepdog to shepherd, my friends on the right will be seriously disappointed.

But let me state for the record that I am personally prejudiced in favor of Bavarians.

Comments

[rengal.livejournal.com]

Nice commentary. :)

[winegodeatsyou.livejournal.com]

I hope you are right, I hope he does disappoint the right and the left. I tend to doubt to it since I have followed his carear for so long.

[baranoouji.livejournal.com]

Can you provide me with some links about Pope Benedict XVI's kinder and gentler mien? I need to do some research!

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Your last paragraph offers a ray of hope. Adam Weishaupt, thou art avenged!

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I turned on CNN at once after reading this and other announcements.

Ratzinger looks happy and a little stunned. Who wouldn't be?

This has been quite a journey for the Catholic Church, this last few weeks. I hope the cardinal will have a blessed and peaceful and productive time as Pope. He has already been very close to JP II, so the transition might be easier for him.

But even so it is bound to be overwhelming to walk suddenly into the pages of history.

Bavarians?

[kali-ma.livejournal.com]

I shall heretofore expose you as an Illuminati agent! :))

*confusion*

[kali-ma.livejournal.com]

"my own Church"

You are not Catholic?

[joffridus.livejournal.com]

I recall a not-so-long-ago entry about some prophecy about the next popes. Could you re-point me to it? I seem to recall a prediction about a pope named Benedict. I'd like to see if it was indeed this one.

(And did our new Papa know about the prediction when he picked his name?)

I've heard some weird reactions to Ratzinger. I don't think he would have been my first choice had I been raised to the purple, but...well, obviously many american Romans are disappointed because, well, he's Catholic for crying out loud (for shame!). But I'm surprised at several people who I thought were more "conservative" who think he'll be too conservative.

Personally, I think he'll be just fine.

[tiwonge.livejournal.com]

See, that's what I'm saying.

His role in the CDF is different than his role as pope. There, he was playing the conservative drag force to progressives. Now, he's not in the same role.

I'll let time pass before I judge his papacy. He's only been pope for what, 2 hours?

[uncreatedlight.livejournal.com]

I so adore Bavarians. I lived among them for three years. Bavaria is to Germany what Texas is to the US, or what Quebec is to Canada.

...they have better beer, too. :D

[nandan.livejournal.com]

So he was the anti-Vatican II priest? You must pardon me, I've been resisting watching tv all day. Not that I'd learn more from them than you anyway.