[mware]

I will be sending an e-mail to WABC radio. Specifically John Bachelors radio show. I will paraphrase, John Loftus said that he could not wish him to die, but he does wish him a short reign.

[mware]

Sorry I guess I am still angry. The HIM is Pope Benedict XVI

[lysie]

Dreadful thing to say.

[prairiebreeze]

I think the media reports are already becoming more venomous against the new Pope.

Check out the link in post 2804 this thread for an example.

Here's a couple of snips:

"If he continues as pope the way he was as a cardinal, I think we will see a polarized church," said David Gibson, a former Vatican Radio journalist and author of a book on trends in the church. "He has said himself that he wanted a smaller, but purer, church."

Critics complain Ratzinger embodies all the conservative instincts of the last papacy, but without John Paul's charisma and pastoral genius.

"I think this is the closest the church can come to human cloning," quipped Gibson.

And this:

"The name Benedict XVI leaves the possibility open for a more moderate policy," said the Swiss theologian Hans Kueng, whose license to teach theology was revoked by the Vatican in 1979. "Let us, therefore, give him a chance. As with the president of the USA, we should allow a new pope 100 days to learn."

But Kueng already has formed his judgment: "An enormous disappointment for all those who hoped for a reformist and pastoral pope."