Posted on 01/03/2002 4:04:53 PM PST by Sparkvark
If you had read any of my other postings, you will see I am anti-Jack Chick and an ardetn defender of the Faith and The true Church.
Keep an eye on this fellow:
Pope John Paul II has appointed the 60-year-old head of the Lateran University, long involved with the conservative group Communion and Liberation (CL) as the new Patriarch of Venice, effective January 5. Scola has a long history with the conservative group Communion and Liberation. Affable and cosmopolitan, he is a respected and serious intellectual close to the thinking of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (who is said to have pushed for his appointment to Venice) and the late Hans Urs von Balthasar, both of whom are exponents of a 'rethinking' of the Second Vatican Council.
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