[Convert from ECUSA]

:))) Pope Benedict is from Bavaria, which is Southern Germany........as for the ECUSA, neither Jefferson Davis or Robert E. Lee would recognize it, they would see it for the New Agey pagan-dominated looney bin it is. Same for C.S. Lewis, who warned about what we've seen in the ECUSA for the past 40 years in his writings; Lewis saw the first rumblings on the horizon. As you know, FR friend AnAmericanMother is one of those wonderful Southern Episcopalians (they way they used to make them before the ECUSA went all New Agey pagan) who crossed the Tiber.

[AnAmericanMother]

Howdy, or Hi, y'all!, or Servus, vos omnes!

Bavaria has more analogues with the Southern U.S. than you would think . . . I lived there for awhile, and it's my belief that the average rural Bayerischer Kerl is just a good ol' boy in Lederhosen. Proud, a little loud, appearing a little uncouth to the city-dweller, but competent, kind, generous and good-hearted. They don't have pickup trucks, and they're Catholic instead of Baptist or Church of God, but fundamentally and essentially they are brothers under the skin.

His Holiness is the small town boy who went to the city and made good, but never forgot his roots.