I already feel a little guilty for not appreciating the B16 years as much as I should have done.
oh i think we appreciated him properly, just didn’t realize we weren’t going to have him around any longer to keep appreciating. i have trepidations. i like Pope Francis and will hope for the best. he is being appreciated by many non-Catholics, and while that’s good. i don’t think that he is going to necessarily bring them to the Church. They may just feel more kindly towards the Church from outside its boundaries, and i GUESS that’s ok, but not quite sure what the point of it is. And didn’t Benedict speak of a SMALLER but more faithful church? I don’t know, some of this smacks of happy slappy, we want people to LIKE us, reminiscent of the libs wanting the rest of the world to like the USA better. for what?
and can’t you just SEE where this is going to go? washing women’s feet on Holy Thursday, girls sitting there with their manicured toes and dress up to their BEHINDS and the priest and altar servers there at eye level. unseemly.
I LOVED Papa Ben. Only the good ones know when to hang it up...it’s their basic decency.