Posted on 02/11/2013 8:32:29 AM PST by EveningStar
Pope Benedict was cheered by conservatives for trying to reaffirm traditional Catholic identity but liberals accused him of turning back the clock on reforms and hurting dialogue with Muslims, Jews and other Christians.
The 85-year-old German-born pontiff announced on Monday he would step down at the end of the month because of the effects of old age meant he was unable to complete his ministry. It was a decision that stunned Church officials and Catholics around the world, but one that he had hinted at in the past.
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F the Muslims. Pope. Catholic. Get it?
How much “outreach” is there from muslims to Christians????
Reuters, Reuters, Reuters,
“Conservative whose papacy was dogged by scandal...”
Do da names Bill, Hillary, Nancy, Harry, Obama, Michelle, (continue by naming virtually ANY dim-bulb-crat in the known multiverse)...mean anything to you?
Get real.
Once you do that, shove it up your collective, sceptic, and extremely smelly Obamas.
I guess to the media, doing something that liberals don’t like is a “scandal.”
The writers of Reuters have the talent of putting the words “conservative” and (put a word that people dislike here) in the same title or sentence.
However, they lose that same talent when the word “liberal” is used.
Does it fry your egggs that I got your thread posted with one reply for posting this garbage?
Leftists rewrite history. It’s what they do. The small minded idiots who read the media will say “Oh, yes, he was dogged by scandal, wasn’t he?”
The reality is from the moment he took office the left was out to get him. They distorted his words about the founder of the religion of “peace.” They called him a nazi.
Reuters...with its typical secular, political drivel.
Just seem strange for the Pope to go cross current with 600 years of tradition. I’d say that there is a chance something is making him resign.
Something like perhaps he believes the church needs leadership that he cannot provide at his age and with his health. Perhaps he see this as the best thing for the church at this moment.
Well, if you have read his theological expositions of the past, his weightier tomes and popular books and compared them to his most recent, “The Infancy Narratives,” which was delightful and a great Christmas gift, he’s slowing down to full-stop.
That was obvious from this last book.
He’s 85 for pete’s sake. He’s leaving the bark to someone younger and stronger in this mightily turbulent time.
Sorry, reaching out to muslims to understand and befriend them, negates all claims to conservative or Christian.
Nope, and I am not talking about evangelizing, because that is not what he did.
I tend to agree. The world is entering a period of great crisis, and the Church will need to be able to stand firmly visibly for the Kingdom of God. I believe Benedict knows the Church needs vigorous leadership, more vigorous than a man of his years can provide. It is unprecedented, to be sure, but so is the size of the world's population and the percentage of that population who wish only evil on the Church.
Time to start praying that his successor be at least as bold in leadership and as pious in his personal life as this great "Rottweiler of God."
They get their information from liberal Catholics, who hated both him and John Paul II. John Paul’s popularity infuriated them, and they hated Joseph Ratzinger as a traitor to their cause, for at Vatican II, he had been regarded as a liberal. Then came 1968, and he saw with existential horror what was happening.
I have to admit that this scares me becaude depending on what happens at the conclave, this could promote even greater crisis. Suppose the next pope is from the liberal wing of the church who sets out to un-do all that Benedict and John Paul did? Do good conservative Catholics just take it and follow obediently? Or do they take advantage of the fact that for the first time in 6 centuries those opposed to the pope's policies still have a living person to rally around? Recent schisms within the church had been very small affairs. If the conclave chooses unwisely then the potential is there for a much larger one. I guess we just have to pray that the Holy Spirit guides them and leads them to choose a strong individual to replace Benedict.
Shocking development, but perhaps wise if his health truly prevents him from his duties.
Shocking development, but perhaps wise if his health truly prevents him from his duties.
Yes. Pray and fast that the Holy Spirit’s inspiration be followed and not frustrated.
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