LONG LIVE POPE BENEDICT XVI!! MAY HIS REIGN BE BLESSED!
Posted on 04/19/2005 8:53:39 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
WE HAVE A POPE!!!
And I just found out she's hearing my divorce case next Tuesday!!!!
No, but on a serious tip: Integrityrocks, I do apologize to you. I made the assumption you were a man, which made me get a little carried away. Yes, I know it's a double-standard, but there it is. Please accept my apologies.
There's no such thing as a "caretaker Pope," when you think about it.
There's a thought! Maybe I'll have hubby pick up a bottle of Riesling on his way home tonight and drink a toast!
;-)
Generations of American Catholics learned in Question and Answer format from The Baltimore Catechism.
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Gosh, the Baltimore Catechism brings back memories. I believe though that when I was a little mite (back in the -50's) there was a children's Catechism...perhaps a "kid's version" of the Baltimore Catechism????
Never give up. We're with you 1000% .........and if they try to throw out the PC anywhere in the world, we will sic the Pope's legions on 'em. They'll be damned sorry if they trifle with the PC. So there.
Actually, they are all caretakers.
SD
LONG LIVE POPE BENEDICT XVI!! MAY HIS REIGN BE BLESSED!
Perhpas you are thinking of B&B...Benedictine and Brandy. :)
You're good!! :o)
I have to take my son to the dentist now. Oh, to have internet access while I wait!!! Ugh! I'll never catch up.
Now that is something I could use...a Catholic Doctrine for Dummies...as I said, I am still finding my way, something simple for me, would be what I am looking for...as least to begin with...
"Anyway, I'm going back to see who first posted the papal name."
There was plenty of speculatin and hopes and prayers leading up to your post...but YOU were the one who actually said that it is in fact Ratzinger....so you made a small piece of history here at FR. Well done.
"...At 78 Ratzinger can be nothing else but a caretaker Pope...."
Tht's what was said of Pope John XXIII. All he did was initiate Vatican II. A major change for the Catholic church by someone that was in for such a short time. If John XXIII did that, think of what Benedict XVI could do.
I used to have a pda cell phone so I could freeper 24-7 but that was carrying things a bit too far :D You'll catch up. Don't worry :-)
It is to laugh.
Dear Darkwolf,
There are a lot of cradle Catholics who still cling to the myth of the Spirit of Vatican II, that the Second Ecumenical Vatican Council would usher in an era of democracy, modernity, and new and wild things like contraception for all! women priests! married priests! inter-communion with non-Catholics!
Interestingly, cardinals 80 and over aren't permitted to vote. I believe that may have been done to promote a "progressive" agenda in the Church. Ironically, the "progressivism" associated with the myth of the Spirit of Vatican II is a relic of a dying generation.
I wonder if a Ratzinger papacy was assured because some older cardinals could no longer vote.
Younger Catholics who are reasonably devout often just don't want to hear this cr*p. It is older devout Catholics still running around looking for their lost Catholic mojo.
Here's an example. My sons took swimming lessons with a swimming teacher who belongs to our parish. He's a little older than my wife and I (he's in his 60s, we're in our 40s). This week and last week, he's been talking to my wife how after 26 years of oppression, it would be great to get a progressive new pope who would re-open the questions of contraception, married priests, etc.!
He was horrified that my wife wasn't hoping for same.
This is a devout man, a regular, involved church-going Catholic. But he is a man obtained of a delusion - the delusion of the myth of the Spirit of Vatican II.
Conversely, when my wife related this tale to the younger moms of our homeschool (mostly Catholic) chess club, they were at once bemused and horrified by the older man's thoughts, and all thought a Ratzinger papacy would be just dandy.
Older devout, church-going Catholics are often more desirous of a "progressive" agenda. Younger devout, church-going Catholics are often hopeful for greater orthodoxy.
sitetest
You wouldn't reside in a small town in extreme S.E. MI would you?
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