Benedict XVI: The Pope and His Agenda

La Chiesa ^ | April 20, 2005 | Sandro Magister

[murphE]

my atheist/agnostic/lapsed Lutheran husband likes to have a beer after work too.

Hey, my atheist/agnostic/baptized but not raised Catholic husband likes to have a beer after work too. Wow, small world. ; )

[diamond6]

I love it!!!! I absolutely love it!!!!!

[Unam Sanctam]

LOL -- I'm glad I got my Cardinal Ratzinger Fan Club tee shirt last year. I never would have guessed he'd be the new pope!

[vox_freedom]

Those pictures are great!
The joy seen in those young priests really shows the reason for hope in our future.
BTW, maybe those Cardinals are actually happy, they just don't know how to smile after the last 30+ years...

[murphE]

[american colleen]

Hey, all this time I thought you were a guy!

Here's another pic I haven't seen before.

In this photo released by the German Catholic News Agency KNA and dated from July, 8, 1951 Joseph Ratzinger, standing right, is seen with his family, father Josef, mother Maria and sister Maria, seated from right, and brother Georg following their ordination to the priesthood.

[sinkspur]

He would love to see a Church that is simpler in terms of bureaucracy. He doesn’t want its central and peripheral institutions – the Vatican curia, the diocesan chanceries, the episcopal conferences – to become “like the armor of Saul, which prevented the young David from walking.”

That must be why Ratzinger did nothing to simplify the bureaucracy in the 24 years he served in it. Instead, he made the Curia to be the gatekeeper of every single decision that came out of episcopal conferences, and made his CDF to resemble the Holy Office of Ottaviani, which he purported to despise as a periti at Vatican II.

I've read so much of what Ratzinger has said the past two days, little of which is reflected in what he did.

Watch what BXVI does, not what he says.

[old and tired]

my atheist/agnostic/lapsed Lutheran husband likes to have a beer after work too. ;-)

Well, in that case I'll put down the Beck's and go back to the Budweiser. :(

[murphE]

Here's a picture of his ordination in 1951. George Ratzinger is on the left left, Pope Benedict XVI is on the right. Check out those lace albs.

[ELS]

That picture is a definite keeper.

[JohnnyZ]

I've read so much of what Ratzinger has said the past two days, little of which is reflected in what he did. Watch what BXVI does, not what he says.

....off the deep end somewhere .... Sinky I think you need a vacation. And lay off the pills!