Posted on 04/19/2005 5:47:52 PM PDT by Antioch
O.K. We all know the MSM was going to immediately sink their little fangs into ANY papal candidate who dared appear on the papal balcony NOT wearing a rainbow colored Speedo. But who had the most rabid reality distortion field? CBS or the NY Times?
SeeBS
....It was Ratzinger's job as head of the Vatican's Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith - the old Office of the Inquisition - that led to him being labeled by some as "God's Rottweiler."
.... were all hoping for a different pope — a Latin American perhaps — but not an ultraconservative like this," said French pilgrim Silvie Genthial, 52...In choosing Joseph Ratzinger, the cardinals picked the most polarizing figure in the Catholic Church.
...no one was more feared as a chief enforcer of Vatican orthodoxy.
[Ratzinger] has the most appalling reputation around the world as someone who has squashed theology, persecuted theologians - the chief of the thought police, the master of the inquisition....
....During the U.S. presidential election said any pro-choice candidates on abortion should be denied communion -- and so denied any chance at salvation. As a cardinal he took no prisoners. As pope, his unbending promotion of strict, orthodox doctrine now has the stamp of infallibility.
href=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/19/international/worldspecial2/10cnd-scene.html?hp&ex=1113969600&en=7621121f5a528fde&ei=5094&partner=homepage
NYTimes
... It was not clear, however, how popular a choice he was on St. Peter's Square: The applause for the new pope, w hile genuine and sustained among many, tapered off decisively in large pockets, reflecting reservations about his doctrinal rigidity and about whether an already polarized church will now find less to bind it together.
....His well-known stands include the assertion that Catholicism is the "truth" and other religions are "deficient"; the spiritual weakness of the modern, secular world; a sense that Catholicism is in competition with Islam; and opposition to homosexuality, women as priests and stem cell research.
...Many in the crowd were openly and greatly distressed by the choice of the new pope - widely regarded as an extreme conservative on a wide variety of social issues. This included many Catholics who said he would take the church in the wrong direction.
...One theologian, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, called Cardinal Ratzinger "John Paul II, without the imagination."
....Many others seemed simply perplexed with a choice they saw as moving the church backward. John Paul II, they said, seemed inclined to move the church into the real world. Benedict XVI, they felt, would return to a focus on narrow dogma and doctrine.
I already know he will be a great pope the way the liberals are driven nuts by him....they seem to think that the Cardinals chose Benedict XVI when all along it was God who worked through them....
VIVA IL PAPA!!!!
LONG LIVE BENEDICT XVI!!!!
Yep, the MSM is having a field day attempting to create news.....It is going on in my background right now on oreilly......
Get ready for the stupid polls of "Catholics" who do not attend Mass regularly or are not married in the Catholic Church...
This is going to be entertaining...liberals foaming at the mouth, hissing and slithering their way to the dung heap of history.
Liberal speak for anyone who does not kowtow to the Marxist world view.
LOL! The best FReeper-created headline of the day!!
"polarizing"
Liberal speak for anyone who does not kowtow to the Marxist world view.
======
The liberals and their MSM are in full self-destruct mode. This is beautiful...I guess most of their Kool-Aid drinking readers are so stupid that they do even get what the MSM is trying to create here...demonizing probably one of the best choices for Pope there was.
Poor little lost liberals -- they just cannot find any answers for this in the Communist Manifesto. Woe is they!
I bet Hans Kung and Michael Moore are going to be in the fetal position under a pile a cheesburger wrappers for a few days.
What a delightful shocker that Cardinal Ratzinger got picked!
The liberals' greatest fears have been realized.
Oh if only all these things they were saying were true!
Didn't sound like it to me. Sounded like the [sustained] applause brought the house down.
NYT is far worse than See BS on this
'habebamus' might be more appropriate regarding the media.
I like the sound of your priest!!!
...The applause for the new pope, w hile genuine and sustained among many, tapered off decisively in large pockets, reflecting reservations about his doctrinal rigidity...
_I disagree...I feel that there was no disapproval of the choice...... but after 26 years.... the Italians , of course, would want the next Pope to come from home....they wanted an Italian Pope...I can understand that...
History/tradition/all that stuff..Very understandable.. hay, gotta cheer for the home team... ;-)
LOL! ;-D
HABEMUS MORONS
::uncontrollable laughter::
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.