Posted on 04/20/2005 9:54:13 AM PDT by NYer
Interesting just how many differences there are between JPII and Benedict XVI.
A man after my own heart :-)
Of all the differences, that's the one I most look forward to.
The election of Pius XII sent a signal nobody missed.
I'm not a catholic... but if I were I'd know that Benedict XVI was my kind of pope.
Interesting also how they were able to be great friends and still work together, both seemingly with God's blessing. John Paul was the man for his day, and now Benedict will have his, each to the glory of God.
It is interesting, the differences, and how evident the Hand of God is in these two successors to Peter. I am praying that Ben XVI appoints someone as the prefect of the doctrine of faith whom he admires and trusts, as much as JP II trusted him in that post.
With all the "Prophecies" running rampant out there, descernment is paramount, but one would have to be pretty foggy in the head not to see them being realized before our eyes.
"Benedict XVI has never hidden his reservations even about the mass liturgies celebrated by his predecessor. No one in the curia of John Paul II was more free, or more critical, than he was. And Karol Wojtyla had the greatest respect for him for this reason, too."
Interesting!
And this has been for years one of the points on which he has collided with novelties in the postconciliar Church. He has had harsh words for the transformation of the mass and liturgies "into spectacles that require directors of genius and talented actors." He has said similar things about the dismantling of sacred music. "How often we celebrate only ourselves, without even taking Him into account," he commented in his meditations for the Stations of the Cross last Good Friday. Here, "Him" refers to Jesus Christ, the one forgotten by liturgies changed into convivial gatherings.
Benedict XVI has never hidden his reservations even about the mass liturgies celebrated by his predecessor. No one in the curia of John Paul II was more free, or more critical, than he was.
This reinforces my opinion that Piero Marini will not be the pontifical MC for much longer.
Wonderful to hear. In America, political correctness is the club used by the ACLU Secular Taliban and their acolytes, to beat back believers----to oust religionists of every faith from claiming their rightful place in the public square.
PC needs to be quashed every place it raises it ugly head. We pray that Pope Benedict XVI will deliver the message far and wide-----political correctness is dead, its demise hastened by a devastated culture corrupted by secularism.
He is a superb thinker, an intellectual of the highest order. It will be difficult for some to grasp the huge ideas he wraps his mind around. We must forgive those who criticize this Pope---they simply cannot aspire as high as he does.
When you are as powerful as the Pope is, you end up surrounded by syncophants. You become desperately in need of someone who believes in the same objectives that you do, but are not afraid to tell you when they think you are wrong.
With the new Pope we have now taken off our gloves to fight evil. It will develop into an all out war. All one has to do is to look at the "Catholics" who want changes.
As one liberal said she was glad to see the Pope leave his position of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. I laugh as Cardinal Arinze will slide right over to that position.
Does anyone know why Kathleen Keating seems to detest Pope Benedict-XVI? I've always found her to be at least interesting to listen to (whether or not I agree with her) but lately she's sounding like a total wingnut. She talks in riddles - although I think I know what she means but I still can't be sure. Like many, I tend to like our new pope so I'd like to know what her problem is, if anyone can shed any light?
"into spectacles that require directors of genius and talented actors."
Heck, the American translation of the Scriptures is so flat that it take a trained actor to project their meaning with any clarity at all. We lectors have a devil of a time, and when you get someone who deons't have the faintest idea of how to read aloud, it can be prerty awful. But why is i t that modernists hate beauty? I guess because they are Purtians at heart, On the other hand, that it is to do injustice to the Puritans, most of whom were earthy men.
Hitler certainly didn't. Ironically, Pius has been tarred by people who haven't bothered to learn that Pius was the last man that the Nazis wanted to be pope.
Pius was elected on the third ballot, the fastest election in the last century. The cardinals knew he was their man and with war looming there was no time to fool around.
B16 was elected on the 4th ballot.
>> During the first millennium, the college of bishops carried much greater weight. It will be, perhaps, a conservative pope like Benedict XVI who will clear the way for this reform. <<
It is an important point to make that the re-establishment of Orthodoxy is the means by which collegiality can be established.
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