Bunch of seminarians in St. Peter's as the new pope, Benedict XVI was announced.
Posted on 04/20/2005 9:54:13 AM PDT by NYer
Wish I had bought on of those coffee mugs from 'the ratzinger fan club' when I saw them a couple of years ago --- 'putting the smackdown on heresy since 1981' - now they are all out of them!
Bunch of seminarians in St. Peter's as the new pope, Benedict XVI was announced.
The "JPII" seminarians appear to approve.
I think I heard her say in an interview that Ratzinger (this is before his election) does not truly believe in the prophecies of Fatima. This may be the reason why she doesn't seem to be happy about the situation.
Nice to see lots of young and clean cut priests! There have been a few Legionaires interviewed on the various news stations... they are happy and articulate and faithful, very uplifting!
For some it's not that they hate beauty, it's that they hate beauty in the Church. When you have an agenda that is contrary to that of any institution, you can't further the agenda until you weaken or deconstruct the existing institution.
Some are innocent, but many realize exactly what they are doing. They know full well that our sacred music, which has its roots in times before Christ walked the earth is extremely powerful. It can convert on its own accord. They know it is essential to puvlerize the mass that converted the world and changed human history. They realize how beautuful our women look in veils and how mysterious our brothers and sisters look in the clothing of their vocation. Most of all they know the power of the Gospel, which comes from the Anglo Old-English word "Godspell".
They're not dumb. Which is why they've gotten away with as much as they have.
I'm not presenting anything new here. The Nazi's, Chicoms, Bolsheviks and any other tools of the enemy realized that they had to wipe out the existing traditions and history in order to flourish.
During the 1960’s, the young Ratzinger followed the second Vatican Council as an expert consultant for the cardinal of Cologne, Joseph Frings. He launched his first darts against the Holy Office, “out of step with the times and a cause of harm and scandal,” which he would direct many years later. But very soon after the end of the council, he began to denounce its effects, which were “crudely divergent” from what was to be expected.
"Crudely divergent", so exact, so perfectly stated. I went to the library today to begin reading some of his works, and everything was gone. There was a mad rush earlier, evidently. The only book I could get my hands on, via another branch, was Salt of The Earth. I should have that in a few days, and can't wait to begin reading it.
His was a strange conservatism, in any case. It was apt to disturb, rather than pacify, the Church. One of his favorite models is Saint Charles Borromeo, the archbishop of Milan who, after the Council of Trent, did nothing less than “reconstruct the Catholic Church, which was almost destroyed in the area around Milan as well, without returning to the Middle Ages to do so; on the contrary, he created a modern form of the Church.”
Interesting. So much reading, so little time.
..not conforming itself to the times, not falling to its knees before the world, but “bringing, with holy consternation, the gift of faith to all, the gift of friendship with Christ.”
Again, wonderful imagery. What a beautiful phrase holy consternation is!
He prefers the missionary impulse to timid dialogue with nonbelievers and men of other faiths.
Smart. Very smart. The missionary impusle acutally lives, dialogue is alive in the sense a plant is alive. Beautiful, necessary but not suffient unto itself; inferior nutrients.
“How often we celebrate only ourselves, without even taking Him into account,” he commented in his meditations for the Stations of the Cross last Good Friday. Here, “Him” refers to Jesus Christ, the one forgotten by liturgies changed into convivial gatherings.
Heartbreaking, but true.
As a cardinal, Benedict XVI also criticized the endless succession of saints and blesseds that pope Wojtyla raised to the honors of the altar: in many cases, these were “persons who might perhaps say something to a certain group, but do not say much to the great multitude of believers.” As an alternative, he proposed “bringing to the attention of Christianity only those figures who, more than all others, make visible to us the holy Church, amid so many doubts about its holiness.”
I agree wholeheartedly. It's no good devaluing Sainthood.
For whatever reason Ratzinger had for suppressing the Fatima secret, he may reap the consequences as the prophecied bishop in white who flees Rome and dies a cruel death. It would be a strange, sad twist of fate.
Dominus Jesus - On the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church
Now take a look at some the cardinals faces after the announcement:
Four things I heard about our holy father today: he likes a beer 'after work' he walked to his apartment to 'pick up his stuff' he gave the homily in latin and he was wearing some sort of t-shirt instead of an expensive french shirt and cufflinks under the traditional pope garb when he was announced on the balcony (guess you can see it in some of the pics around).
I think he's a pretty fun guy. I think we are in for a ride here. I wanna get on it.
That second one from the left just kills me. =D
That picture of the young guys is just perfect!
I can't tell if the Cardinals are just tired or this bunch just didn't agree...difference between being 20something and 70+ after a long hard two weeks?
Hmmm, I only get the red x for a broken image. A shame.
Copy and paste from properties works wonders. Those are my kind of priests! Seeing priests like that makes me incredibly jealous! :) God Bless 'em!
Gee, I bet the pope and I have lots in common!
I have been so busy the last couple of days -- not really had any time to post on these threads. My loss!
Oh, LOL! I missed that picture before!
None of them look too thrilled but the last guy on the right at least looks like he's trying to put up a stiff upper lip.
Maybe it was the rising stench of the great unwashed masses below that set them off?
Thanks again for that pic... I still laugh when I look at it. Talk about joyful countenances raised to the Lord!
Don't get too excited or above yourself... my atheist/agnostic/lapsed Lutheran husband likes to have a beer after work too. ;-)
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