running dogg wrote:

John S. wrote:

And from the world of instant internet communications german Cardinal
Ratzinger is the new pope. Too bad they can't break away from
europeans.....


The Catholic Church is very slow to change. For 500 years the
"tradition" was that an Italian always got the job. In 1978 that
tradition was broken when a Pole (JP2) was elected. This is the first
election in 26 years, and I found it highly unlikely that a Latino or
African would be elected, despite the fact that the Church is growing
fast in Latin America and Africa while it is shrinking in North America
and Europe. I think it's sad that Catholicism can't change with the
times, not doctrinally but in the good ole European boy network, and it
might be the death of the Church eventually.

So even though they probably looked at who best to do the job they should have cast
that notion away and been more 'PC'? At least in your eyes?

dxAce
Michigan
USA

"dxAce" wrote:

So even though they probably looked at who best to do the job they should
have cast
that notion away and been more 'PC'? At least in your eyes?

dxAce
Michigan
USA

If that's what he's saying (though I'm not saying he IS saying that), I
wouldn't
be surprised. I was stunned at the number of commentators who said with
perfect certitude, "The next Pope must be more flexible, and open." Open
to WHAT?, I ask? What a load of shyte.

Pope Benedict XVI will, I believe, be a good Pope, and that's more important
than being a *great* Pope. He reveres tradition and dogma, and that's the
only
thing the Church has in its favor today.

I'm surprised that no one has ever considered that the scandals encircling
the
Church today is due to the liberalization and modernization of the Church?
Has anyone here, under the age of 50, ever spent a week in a seminary?
I have. One month, in fact, and the permissivity I witnessed there could be
one possible explanation for the fact that roughly 3 out of every 4
seminarians
were open, avowed homosexuals. Here's the stunning part - Their Bishop
knew! That kind of licentiousness might (hopefully) be dealt with by
Benedict
XVI. That's my prayer, at least. You are right, Steve. He is a good man,
and importantly, a STRONG man. Half the Church turned their back on him
when he said, twenty years ago, "There is much filth in the Church." If
we'd
listened, perhaps we could have cured the disease sooner.

73,

Steve

--
Steve Lawrence
Burnsville, Minnesota

Every moment of a human life is an act of worship.

Coincidence is God's way of being anonymous.

--
Steve Lawrence
Burnsville, Minnesota

Every moment of a human life is an act of worship.

Coincidence is God's way of being anonymous.

SMHL,

RHF schrieb:

....may the new pope be a servant of god's will ~ RHF

I hardly believe this dogmatic inquisitory man is a true believer in god
at all.
Nontheless he may become a 'God's tool' of some kind.....

Screwdriver/ Germany

Article at www.boingboing.net says,New pope is former hitler
youth.I only posted the website,read the article and form your own
opinion's.
cuhulin

wrote:

Article at www.boingboing.net says,New pope is former hitler
youth.I only posted the website,read the article and form your own
opinion's.

Wasn't Hitler Youth membership compulsory?

dxAce
Michigan
USA

I went to www.dogpile.com and asked that same question.There is
plenty of information there about that.
cuhulin

"dxAce" wrote in message
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wrote:

Article at www.boingboing.net says,New pope is former hitler
youth.I only posted the website,read the article and form your own
opinion's.

Wasn't Hitler Youth membership compulsory?

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Yes, it absolutely was (to answer the unanswered question)

73,


--
Steve Lawrence
Burnsville, Minnesota

Every moment of a human life is an act
of worship.

Coincidence is God's way of being anonymous.