All Hail
Announcing Pope Benedict XVI, formerly known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. The elections didn't elevate someone from the developing world, from Africa or Latin America (where a sizable portion of the world's Catholics are). However, they did break with tradition again and elected a non-Italian. Ratzinger is the first German pope since the 11th century.
As for doctrine, no surprises there either. Ratzinger was a hard-liner under John Paul II and undoubtedly will remain so as Pope. This means no drastic changes on issues many in the Church are concerned about- ordination of women, lightening the rules for priesthood, and so on. Ratzinger has just turned 78- John Paul II was 58 when elected- so it remains to be seen how much of a lasting impact he will have...
Look beyond what you see...
posted by Nettie @ 4/19/2005 03:45:00 PM
14 Comments:
Great post, but "dead pope" as the picture caption title leaves something to be desired.
I am pleased that they chose someone who will uphold church doctrine.
I'm still playing with Flickr, sorry about that.
Much better!
Ratzinger must be an ok guy. My hard line Catholic boss was rooting for him.
I agree. Apparently it just titles it by whatever youir file name is, but what I put is nicer than what I usually name stuff!
Oh man... I WANTED A SPANISH POPE NAMED DANTE! Oh well... I'm not Catholic but i'm glad we have a pope! WOOO!
I noticed that "dead pope" caption earlier...
Hi Nettie, I am THRILLED about this new Pope, and I'm not Catholic. The Europeans hate him, so we know he's got to be good!
Definitely an exciting part of our history!
Also, completely off-topic... I remembered you mentioning in a post a couple of weeks ago or so that the song "God's Will" by Martina McBride was awesome... I love McBride and I've heard the song twice, you're absolutely right! First time I heard it I was on my way home from work on a Friday afternoon... crying ;) Awesome song!
Stacey's Thoughts on the Pope...
1. Glad they changed his name, wasn't quite sure how I felt about Ratzinger--lol
2. people will stand together to watch as a group of men choose a pope, but on weighter issues we are so divided
3. the world is hungry to participate in the election of a historical religious leader, but don't want to take a stand for a daily ordinary relationship with Jesus
Thanks for letting me share my thoughts here...
hehe.. "Dead pope". We can only hope.
Yes, I think Maz needs to learn to "play nice".
He's a friend of mine, be nice.
yeah, like, whassup with the whole 78 yr. old thing? Hello??? anyways, my word girl: you got lots 'o' friends!!
IS Terry's Chocolate Oranges your revenge for the CLC's? And don't worry, I enjoyed the history lesson!
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