[big'ol_freeper]

The bottom line is I was congratulating you on your reference to The Lord of the Rings with your description of Pope Benedict having “come to us at the turning of the tide.” A very dramatic “resurrection” moment in the book. Evidently that is cause enough to have one’s intelligence attacked.

[MarkBsnr]

The bottom line is I was congratulating you on your reference to The Lord of the Rings with your description of Pope Benedict having “come to us at the turning of the tide.” A very dramatic “resurrection” moment in the book.

And I thank you for it. I have in the past compared BXVI to the character of Gandalf. As bishop and cardinal, he laboured long and without thanks in the cause of good, then when the moment came, he stepped up and is leading the Church in the fight against evil, and in the restoration of the Church from the shambles of Vatican II evolution.