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To: Mamzelle
"Is that going to be his name?"

The "Pope Benedict" name has an interesting history for today, as the previous Pope Benedict attempted to mediate an end to the horrors of the stalemated trench warfare of the First World War that killed an entire generation of French, British, Germans, and Russians.

A war that was only able to be ended by a mobile American Army, going all the way over to Europe to do what the Europeans themselves could not.

So such a Pope's name recognizes the current global war on terror, America's role, and what part the Church should play.

32 posted on 04/19/2005 10:12:18 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

Very interesting post, thanks for the perspective, hope you're right.


36 posted on 04/19/2005 10:24:24 AM PDT by agrace (All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: Southack

Do you think that Pope Benedict will be the reflexive pacifist that JPII was? (Although the media often overblew his anti-war sentiments.)


135 posted on 04/19/2005 3:19:35 PM PDT by AmishDude (Join the AmishDude fan club: "Agreed." -- torchthemummy; "lol, Good one AD."--gopwinsin04)
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