For your information and enjoyment. Comments welcome
1 posted on
04/19/2005 6:15:54 PM PDT by
Salvation
To: topher; cpforlife.org; Coleus
**We at Priests for Life rejoice in the election of Pope Benedict XVI. He will be a blessing for the pro-life movement, and for all people who find comfort that there is such a thing as truth, particularly the truth that life is sacred.**
Pro-life bump!
2 posted on
04/19/2005 6:17:16 PM PDT by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Salvation
I was watching EWTN's coverage today of the Pope, and the priest (I forget his name) said something like, I believe we're about to witness one of the greatest pontificates of our time. It just gave me goosebumps..... good goosebumps!
3 posted on
04/19/2005 6:18:19 PM PDT by
diamond6
(Everyone who is for abortion has already been born. Ronald Reagan)
To: Salvation
4 posted on
04/19/2005 6:23:03 PM PDT by
big'ol_freeper
("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." Pope JPII)
To: Salvation
In particular, one of his key gifts is to articulate the fact that there is such a thing as truth. To give a modern answer to the culture's echo of Pilate's question, "What is truth?" is a key demand of the papal office in our day. To tell the culture that there is a right and wrong, and we can know it, is a key demand of compassion, a requirement of being a Good Shepherd. What a fitting bridge between next Sunday's Gospel "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life" and last Sunday's Gospel "I am the Good Shepherd"!
5 posted on
04/19/2005 6:23:56 PM PDT by
lightman
(The Office of the Keys should be exercised as some ministry needs to be exorcised.)
To: Salvation
That includes the truth about the relationship between the Church and politics. Cardinal Ratzinger wrote, "The Church must make claims and demands on public law and cannot simply retreat into the private sphere." He said that the fundamental political task of the Church is to make sure that the state has a conscience. "Where the Church itself becomes the state freedom becomes lost. But also when the Church is done away with as a public and publicly relevant authority, then too freedom is extinguished, because there the state once again claims completely for itself the jurisdiction of morality." (Ratzinger: Church, Ecumenism, and Politics, 1988).Wonderfully clear. Thanks for the post and for the link to other writings by our new Pope Benedict.
6 posted on
04/19/2005 6:24:11 PM PDT by
AlbionGirl
(May the Lord guide your steps Pope Benedict, and may he grant you loyal and honest advisors.)
To: Salvation
Wow. A German-born pope. He's supposed to be a strict conservative, a right-hand advisor to John Paul II. The only bad news is that he's 78, and that means near the end of a normal life-span.
8 posted on
04/19/2005 6:51:45 PM PDT by
xJones
To: Salvation
"The Church must make claims and demands on public law and cannot simply retreat into the private sphere."Uh oh! Don't let the secular "humanists" hear about this!
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