Thursday, February 28, 2013 6:57:05 AM
Vatican ragged
Specalculator1 .. you're right .. was thinking it probable, plenty of confirmation since ..
Feb 11th 2013, 17:48 by J.P.P.
Pope Benedict XVI celebrates an open-air mass in his native Bavaria on
September 12th 2006, before an estimated crowd of 250,000 people
AFP
THE man born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict XVI in April 2005 and has said he will resign from the office on February 28th this year, is normally seen as inhabiting the traditionalist wing of the Catholic Church, an organisation that prizes old things highly. This is only partly right. Benedict XVI endorsed the use of the old-rite Latin mass and pushed back hard against any suggestion that the church make accommodation with secular heresies on contraception or sexuality. But he was also the first pope to give a television interview, and the first pope to use Twitter. Benedict’s resignation, from an office that almost all its holders have died in, marks him out as a moderniser of sorts too, even if the speech announcing it was in Latin .. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/02/11/pope_benedict_xvi_resignation_announcement_video_pope_announces_he_is_stepping.html .
Following John Paul II—who had preached to hundreds of thousands as the Berlin wall came down, survived an assassination attempt and struck even a few atheists as a precious heirloom—Benedict was marketed as a pope for the church rather than for the world. He would improve internal discipline and stamp on heterodox preaching, just as he had as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a descendent of the Papal Inquisition, for more than 20 years. This turned out to be wrong too: Benedict has proved less abrasive and more cerebral than his billing suggested.
In fact Benedict XVI’s papacy is likely to be remembered as overly passive. Though he acknowledged that the church needed to go on “a long penitential journey” to atone for sins committed by its clergy, the church he presided over was slow to react to sexual-abuse scandals involving its priests and misjudged its response when it did. In America, the church’s chief contributor of funds, the scandals and the lawsuits that followed them have left the Catholic Church in a mess .. http://www.economist.com/node/21560536 . Benedict once said that he had “no talent for...administration or organisation”. Unfortunately in this case his modesty, one of Benedict's most admirable qualities, was not false.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2013/02/pope-benedict-xvi%E2%80%99s-resignation
still like to know who were have been before .. the mention is back from this mention of Norquist .. back a bit ..
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/replies.aspx?msg=79277142
Specalculator1 .. you're right .. was thinking it probable, plenty of confirmation since ..
Feb 11th 2013, 17:48 by J.P.P.
Pope Benedict XVI celebrates an open-air mass in his native Bavaria on
September 12th 2006, before an estimated crowd of 250,000 people
AFP
THE man born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict XVI in April 2005 and has said he will resign from the office on February 28th this year, is normally seen as inhabiting the traditionalist wing of the Catholic Church, an organisation that prizes old things highly. This is only partly right. Benedict XVI endorsed the use of the old-rite Latin mass and pushed back hard against any suggestion that the church make accommodation with secular heresies on contraception or sexuality. But he was also the first pope to give a television interview, and the first pope to use Twitter. Benedict’s resignation, from an office that almost all its holders have died in, marks him out as a moderniser of sorts too, even if the speech announcing it was in Latin .. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/02/11/pope_benedict_xvi_resignation_announcement_video_pope_announces_he_is_stepping.html .
Following John Paul II—who had preached to hundreds of thousands as the Berlin wall came down, survived an assassination attempt and struck even a few atheists as a precious heirloom—Benedict was marketed as a pope for the church rather than for the world. He would improve internal discipline and stamp on heterodox preaching, just as he had as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a descendent of the Papal Inquisition, for more than 20 years. This turned out to be wrong too: Benedict has proved less abrasive and more cerebral than his billing suggested.
In fact Benedict XVI’s papacy is likely to be remembered as overly passive. Though he acknowledged that the church needed to go on “a long penitential journey” to atone for sins committed by its clergy, the church he presided over was slow to react to sexual-abuse scandals involving its priests and misjudged its response when it did. In America, the church’s chief contributor of funds, the scandals and the lawsuits that followed them have left the Catholic Church in a mess .. http://www.economist.com/node/21560536 . Benedict once said that he had “no talent for...administration or organisation”. Unfortunately in this case his modesty, one of Benedict's most admirable qualities, was not false.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2013/02/pope-benedict-xvi%E2%80%99s-resignation
still like to know who were have been before .. the mention is back from this mention of Norquist .. back a bit ..
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/replies.aspx?msg=79277142
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