Why the Holy Father chose the name "Benedict"...?

QueenOfPeace.Ca ^ | April 12, 2005 | Zenit.org

[Southack]

"The US has waged many unjustified wars since 1898, but World War I was the worst. I hope Wilson is burning in Hell."

President Wilson was awful, but he was the least bad of all of the major world leaders in that war.

Nor could it be argued that he "waged" The Great War, as it was started 3 years prior to U.S. troops landing in Europe to end it.

Wilson's peace treaty proposals were far more humanitarian than what the French and British forced upon the Germans, too. That he was out-diplomacied on that point was a failure of his leadership, not of his morality or inherent weal (to the detriment of that following generation of Europeans, too).

[Southack]

"It IS Peter. In Psalms, the only ONE referred to as "rock" was God. By changing Simon's name to Peter, Jesus was saying, "from now on Simon, you are me", meaning that Simon Peter had authority and that the Church was established by Christ but rested and was built on the authority of Peter."

Peter, in the original tongue, translates to "the rock."

That's why "peter" is the stuff of far too many bawdy jokes about hardness.

[stm]

Peter was the "Rock"

Matthew 16:18:
"And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it"

[Ann Archy]

I KNOW! I'm Catholic, and I only go to Churches where they have kneelers!

[stm]

Our Church has padded pews, I guess it's because there are lots of old people in the parish! :-)

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Oh, my knees. We kneel on a carpeted floor...a legacy of worshipping in a 30 year old temporary church...but finally we should be breaking ground on a new one this summer!

[Robert Drobot]

Someone previously jokingly nicknamed the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Panzer Cardinal. I somehow feel the Modernists will be reflecting upon this Vicar of Christ as the Panzer Pope!!!

[Ann Archy]

Wow...padded pews...must be a new Church!

[goldstategop]

If the Church loses sight of what made her great, she deserves to pass into oblivion. The new Holy Father is aware of the seductive evil of the twin earthly powers symbolized by secularism and liberalism. It is time for all good men to stand up against evil. This is the calling of Pope Benedict XVI and the calling of our time.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Wessex]

"Wouldn't it be a riot if Benedict XVI offered a Traditional Mass for his first Mass this Sunday?"


Why would he? He is still part of the Novus Ordo apparatus which may now receive a lick of paint and a bit of repackaging.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Although the new pope is not officially a Benedictine, he is obviously of their mold of thinking. I don't know how we overlooked this in the weeks past.

Chalk one up for St. Malachy. He was right again.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

That may be true. I am taking a position of cautious optimism. I hope Benedict XVI will be a revert to Tradition. He is trending that direction.

[Utah Binger]

As a Thiest my belief is that the new Pope will certainly know that there is more to life than simple Tradition. Possibly he will trade in the robes for a simple suit.

[Straight Vermonter]

When you are ready to join the family.

Becoming Catholic

[Wessex]

"After we ended their second round of senseless war, we chose to keep our troops in Europe rather than bring them home; where they remain today (and as long as they've been there, the major European powers have behaved themselves)."


Yes, we in Europe are so glad of America's frequent disinterested intervention and for raising us all on to a much higher moral plane than that occupied by our antiquated political and religious systems.

[Conservative til I die]

Everyone should know what the rock is. It isn't Peter.

And only a Protestant could take the most clear-cut verses in Scripture and mangle them.

[Mr. Silverback]

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[Domestic Church]

"At least we now have a Pope who has celebrated the Tridentine Mass recently!"


And a he was called a "Panzer Cardinal". The Swiss Guard won't have a moment's rest!