James Lileks' The Bleat on Pope Benedict v.16

http://www.lileks.com/bleats ^ | 04/20/2005 | James Lileks

[Fog Nozzle]

..he made the right people apoplectic.

That pretty much sums up the MSM's take on the new Pope.

[Piquaboy]

The new Pope is a big disappointment to the MSM. He is against everything they love so much.

[Mr. Jeeves]

At least my greatest fear didn’t happen: they’d choose a Pope from Africa, and, unaware with the nomenclature of American marketing, he would call himself “Urban.”

Bwahaha! That would have been a problem - the usual suspects would be accusing the Church of racism and demanding reparations.

[ClaireSolt]

Well they are giving scandal by advocating sinful behavior, especially Chris Matthews.

[ClaireSolt]

I would love to see the pope demand that the states return church property that they confiscated--that kind of reparations could reinvigorate the church in Europe.,

[Uncle Fud]

New age of oppression and intolerance, and all that. Write me when hot-eyed Jesuits walk into a mosque in Qom with ten pounds of Cemtex strapped to their chest.

The defining quality of 20th century modernity is impatience, I think – the nervous, irritated, aggravated impulse to get on with the new now, and be done with those old tiresome constraints. We’re still in that 20th century dynamic, I think, and we will be held to it until something shocks us to our core. Say what you will about Benedict v.16, but he wants there to be a core to which we can be shocked.

Lileks is equaled only by Steyn, and bested by none.

[Piquaboy]

Would Chris Mouthspews advocate sinful behavior? I cannot stand that SOS.

[Fred Hayek]

Nick Coleman (also of the Minneapolis Star and Sickle) on Airhead America Minnesota has also gone off the deep end with lines like "Heil Pope".

[ContraryMary]

At least my greatest fear didn’t happen: they’d choose a Pope from Africa, and, unaware with the nomenclature of American marketing, he would call himself “Urban.”

ROTFL!

[NaughtiusMaximus]

I lost my bid. We're not going to have a Pope Naughtius. But you don't see me threatening to move to friggin Egypt.

[Piquaboy]

I just love it when things do not come out the way the liberals hope they will. Some are calling him Rottweiler. If they don't like it they all can move to Cuba.

[frogjerk]

I started to read the article but I had to stop after the blasphemy...

[EagleUSA]

The new Pope is a big disappointment to the MSM. He is against everything they love so much.
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Exactly correct. Marxism/socialism and Christianity are a bit diametric, are they not??

[secret garden]

Check this out ping.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Not everything. He was very antiwar on Iraq.

[Piquaboy]

Can't be with us on everything. Darn it!

[secret garden]

Here's a good excerpt for you:

To those who want profound change, consider an outsider’s perspective: the Catholic Church is the National Review of religion. You may live long enough to see it become the Weekly Standard. In your dreams it might become the New Republic. But it’s never going to be the Nation. And if ever it does, it will have roughly the same subscriber base.

[xsmommy]

i just finished reading it, it is great!

[Rummyfan]

Write me when hot-eyed Jesuits walk into a mosque in Qom with ten pounds of Cemtex strapped to their chest.

I almost wish they would...... Instead the only hot-eyed Jesuits I know of are against the United States of America.

[RepoGirl]

Some are calling him Rottweiler.

Personally, I love this... but of course, I'm biased.

God's Rottweiler has a better ring to it than say, God's Bichon Frise, or God's Jack Russel, or God's Labradoodle or God's Chihuahua.