[NYer]

>Editor’s note: We are pleased to welcome George Neumayr as a weekly contributor to Crisis Magazine and anticipate that his timely columns will keep the conversation lively, as do the writings of our other fine contributors.

[NYer]

They regard the papacy as a relic of “absolutism” and the last great obstacle to the triumph of their ideology. Consequently, they expend great energy in trying to neutralize or co-opt it.

[GeronL]

I am not Catholic, but I think the Pope should be.

Sorry leftists

[Mouton]

“The media’s frenetic lobbying for a “more progressive” successor to Benedict, as the Washington Post editorialized, is also a measure of the papacy’s enduring power and influence”

The left never knew, learned or cared that morals and ethics are absolutes, not transitory or evolving. The Pope is infallable on matters of faith and I don’t see where some lefty’s editorial page falls in that line of principles. So, while the Pope may not command divisions of troops as was noticed by Stalin, Church mores will not change on the command of these collosal jewels of ignorance.

[arthurus]

The Left always lobbies for a liberal successor to a departing pope. JP I was thought to have been the culmination of the Liberal efforts. He survived 33 days. That could well have been a factor in the choice of the conservative JP II. God sometimes writes straight with crooked lines.

[arthurus]

They regard the papacy as a relic of “absolutism” and the last great obstacle to the triumph of their ideology, totalitarianism.

[al_c]

The gates of Hell may clank against the Church, but they will never crush her.

Well said!!! :-)

[Buckeye McFrog]

Thankfully I believe the bulk of the Cardinals are made of sterner stuff than, say....John Roberts.

[trisham]

The media’s obsessional interest in the papacy is a tacit acknowledgment of its power. Journalists may claim the papacy has “weakened” under Benedict, but the very fact that they cover it with such intensity belies that description. What the media treats as the papacy’s greatest weakness—adherence to orthodoxy—is in fact the source of its prestige.

The media’s frenetic lobbying for a “more progressive” successor to Benedict, as the Washington Post editorialized, is also a measure of the papacy’s enduring power and influence. Why should liberals care so much about the direction of a religion to which they don’t belong? The answer is that they envy its immense power and wish to harness that power for their own ideological purposes. Out of this envy they pose as “reformers” who know what is best for the Church. Yet their unsolicited advice, if taken, would only weaken her.

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Excellent article.

[D-fendr]

Excellent article! And glad to hear Neumayr will contribute weekly.

[Martin Tell]

It's because the left worships power. It's the same reason they are obsessed with winning the presidency at all costs.

They know nothing about the Holy Spirit or the Magisterium.

After all, as their god quipped, "The pope? How many divisions does he have?"

[Salvation]

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