At the end of this dotard's papacy, we in the Catholic communion are really becoming a spectacle to the world! If you want to know what this element of European society was really like, in their attitudes toward the whole rest of the world, read Proust. And, as far as this Pope--who promised, at the beginning of his reign, to retire once he got this old--I am reminded of what John Henry Newman said, of Pius IX: "The spectacle of an octagenarian pope is an obscenity."
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branchandroot
Juan Diego waits 350 yrs. but a Hapsburg less than a century!
Date: 2003-12-21 06:30 pm (UTC)