Comments on: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger Becomes Pope Benedict XVI

By: Our Life

Our Life — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 08:34:52 +0000

Round the Reader - Wednesday, 20 Apr 2005 Guten Morgen, time for another Round the Reader. The big story of the week is the new Pope. If you've been under a rock for the past 24 hours there is a new Pope, Benedict XVI. He's "conservative" (as if...

By: Peaktalk

Peaktalk — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 02:06:01 +0000

POPE BENEDICT XVI
More or less as expected, it's Joseph Ratzinger. UPDATE: Driving into town the various reactions on the radio news were telling, from memory: âCardinal Ratzinger is known for his conservative views, despite that he got an enthusiastic welcome from the...

By: On The Third Hand

On The Third Hand — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 00:22:13 +0000

A new Pope has been chosen. Outside the Beltway has the news and the roundup. Don't ask me about the Pope, I'm not Roman Catholic and I know just enough about it all to know that I don't know enough to pontificate on the Pontiff.

By: Peaktalk

Peaktalk — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 00:18:42 +0000

By: The Astute Blogger

The Astute Blogger — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 23:55:27 +0000

PREDICTION: POPE BENEDICT WILL REINVIGORATE AND REPOPULATE EUROPE'S CHURCHES

By: reliapundit

reliapundit — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 23:38:22 +0000

In his review of Ratzinger's book, Williams wrote:

"Cardinal Ratzinger presents a scenario of a shrinking Church of minority status, more concerned with creating small pockets of authentic Christian living than influencing the course of society."

THIS IS AS WRONG ABOUT BENEDICT AS OTHERS WERE ABOUT JPII.

When JPII was selected many thought that the RC Church was signaling detente with the USSR (because as Cardinal Wojtyla JPII had coexisted with SOviet tyranny in Poland.)

Instead, the world got a GREAT COLD WARRIOR who inspired Poles and gave them the courage to challenge Soviet tyranny.

I expect Pope Benedict to wage a SUCCESSFUL battle against relativism and THEREBY ENLARGE THE CHURCH OINCE AGAIN IN EUROPE.

Yiu never win by appeasing your enemy; relativism is the enemy; Benedict must and will defeat relativism and win back Europe.

By: AlphaPatriot

AlphaPatriot — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 22:57:58 +0000

Of Popes and Hopes and Moonbats
Today, white smoke signaled that Cardinal Ratzinger was elected to be the next pope, the first from Germany since the 11th century. He has chosen to be known as Pope Benedict XVI .The newly elected pope issued his first blessing to the nearly two hundr...

By: The Indepundit

The Indepundit — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 22:35:40 +0000

We Have a Pope WHITE SMOKE billowed out from a stovepipe on the roof of the Sistine Chapel and bells pealed across Rome Tuesday evening, as word spread that a new pope has been elected to lead the one billion faithful of the Roman...

By: JackLewis.net

JackLewis.net — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 21:58:25 +0000

Pope Benedict the Sixteenth
Well it appears the College of Cardinals has chosen a new Pope. Joseph Ratzinger of Germany. And he's considered a...

By: The Indepundit

The Indepundit — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 21:39:50 +0000

We Have a Pope
WHITE SMOKE billowed out from a stovepipe on the roof of the Sistine Chapel and bells pealed across Rome Tuesday evening, as word spread that a new pope has been elected to lead the one billion faithful of the Roman...

By: McGehee

McGehee — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:53:34 +0000

It sure is fun to watch the swooning over Benedict's accession. "It's the end of the world!" Andrew Sullivan has never been so funny as he is today. The world is not so fragile. Neither is the devotion of 1.3 billion Catholics to what they regard as The One True Church. "A more politically relevant theology"? Only someone completely ignorant of what theology is for could string those words together in that order, except for purposes of satire.

By: skinnylegs

skinnylegs — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:19:07 +0000

Today will mark the decline and death of the Catholic Church. The new Nazi pope does'nt have a clue how to stop the erosion of attendance in the American church. The Latin Americans will follow a more politically relevant theology. The Africans will succomb to the increasingly aggressive Anglican church.

The conclave blew it!!

By: Anderson

Anderson — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:00:05 +0000

this century's disastrous attempts at Hegelian Utopianism--both of Marxist and Nietzschean stamp I hope whoever wrote that has read the Bible more closely than he's read Nietzsche. "Nietzsche as Hegelian Utopian"? Dumb, dumb, dumb.

By: Overtaken by Events

Overtaken by Events — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:59:07 +0000

A-Pope-Lectic*
Sully is VERY unhappy about the new Pontiff. (Post title provided courtesy of the wit of my lovely wife) Others...

By: arky

arky — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:37:15 +0000

78? "He has been described as a conservative, intellectual clone of the late pontiff,"

I'm not a papal scholar, but could this be viewed as a short term extension?