We are grateful to God for choosing this time to place him in our midst.
I guess he’s alright, I just get a funny feeling when a german guys on a balcony with thousands of people cheerin’ him on.
Brilliant, humble man.
Viva il Papa!
Cardinal Ratzinger (now the Pope) wrote in his letter to Cardinal McCarrick back in 2004:
“A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for Holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a candidate precisely because of the candidate’s permissive stand on abortion and/or euthanasia. When a Catholic does not share a candidate’s stand in favor of abortion and/or euthanasia, but votes for that candidate for other reasons, it is considered remote material cooperation, which can be permitted in the presence of proportionate reasons.”
I think BXVI is well aware of the years left ahead of him and in the next few years we can expect a strong correction of some of the worst excesses of Vatican II. Indeed, some of these changes are already in progress like disciplining errant members of various spiritual orders.
Here’s one of then Cardinal Ratzinger’s primers:
I wonder if there has been a pope so respected by the Eastern Church or in whom we have so much confidence, in the past 1200 years. I doubt it.
I have searched for the elusive phrase to describe the political moral vacuum that Bill O'Reilly labors disgustingly and ineffectively in....and, EUREKA.....I have found it!
Thank you, dear Pope Benedict.
Leni