Posted on 04/19/2005 8:53:39 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
Thanks, I had no idea jews were sent to the new world. That seems counter-productive. I look forward to reading your sources.
One of the guest speakers on Fox News said that he suspected that the Holy Father WILL be making some changes. Actually he hinted that it will be more of an enforcement of the already established rules.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
I also read somewhere this afternoon that the Holy Father is an excellent pianist.
Great!
My students were watching it on television. One of the boys who is Catholic was so excited, he said, "This is the first time I ever saw a pope being born. It is so cool."
He is also a great fan of Mozart (of course).
I should like very much to have a CD.
Well, they were technically "Conversos" (converts).
The real reason had little to do with religion and a lot to do with the fact we had a lot of economic might and Royal Court politics. Same old song and dance.
Basically any OLD ranching family in West Texas and New Mexico has Jewish roots. Of course, it's mainly just odd recipes and a Torah in the attic.
LOL! That's a great idea. I haven't watched her show since the day after election day when GW was reelected president. What network is she on? NBC? What time is that show on?
LOL!
I suspect it will be more on John Bolton than the Holy Father.
"For years, he and his family had watched the Nazis strengthen their grip on Germany. His father, a policeman and a convinced anti-Nazi, moved the family at least once after clashing with local followers of the party. A local teacher, he remembered, became an ardent follower of the new movement, and tried to institute a pagan May pole ritual as more fitting of Germanic ways than the traditional, conservative Catholicism.
In 1941, Ratzinger, 14, and his brother, Georg were enrolled in the Hitler Youth when it became mandatory for all boys. Soon after, he writes in his book, "The Salt of the Earth," he was let out because of his intention to study for the priesthood.
In 1943, like many teenage boys, he was drafted as a helper for an anti-aircraft brigade, which defended a BMW plant outside Munich. Later, he dug anti-tank trenches. When he turned 18, on April 16, 1945, he was put through basic training, alongside men in their 30s and 40s, drafted as the Nazi Reich went through its death agony. He was stationed near his hometown — he doesn't say where — but did not see combat with the approaching U.S. troops.
After he returned home, the Americans finally arrived — and set up their headquarters in his parents 18th century farmhouse on the outskirts of the town.
They identified him as a German soldier, made him put on his uniform, put up his hands, and marched him off to the town square, where other prisoners were kept. He wound up living in the open air for several weeks, surrounded by barbed wire.
He was finally released June 19 and hitched a ride on a milk truck back to Traunstein.
His family was happy to see him. "Of course, for full joy, something was missing. Since the beginning of April, there had been no word from Georg," he remembered. "So there was a quiet worry in our house."
Suddenly, in the middle of July, in walked Georg, tanned and unharmed. He sat at the piano and banged out the hymn, "Grosser Gott, wir Loben Dich," "Mighty God, we Praise You" as his family rejoiced.
The war was truly over.
"The following months of regained freedom, which we now had learned to value so much, belong to the happiest months of my life," he wrote.
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This date does resound with compelling events
From an email sent by my friend, Gretchen:
April 19, 1775 Shots fired at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, started our Revolutionary War.
April 19, 1861 The first blood of the American Civil War was shed when a secessionist mob in Baltimore attacked Massachusetts troops bound for Washington, D.C. Four soldiers and 12 rioters were killed.
April 19, 1933 Connecticut finally approves the Bill of Rights (148 years later).
April 19, 1993 FBI's 51-day siege of Branch Dividians in Waco, Texas, ends with the deaths of scores of people.
April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing kills 168 and injures 500.
Adding
April 19, 2005 Election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI. (Thank you, Gretchen)
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Aren't those pictures of the priests jumping up and down just great? I love their enthusiasm for their new pope!
God Bless Pope Benedict XVI
I am a Baptist and I could not be happier for all catholics today! Congratulations!
Ah, thanks. Between St. Malachy, Nostradamus, and the Book of Revelation, I get a little confused :/
Looks like. I was just now getting caught up on the Bolton nomination.
Time has since fixed their error. Wonder how many e-mails from disgruntled yet irrelevant Latinists it took for them to realize the mistake.
This is a very good day. Calls went back and forth between friends and family as soon as we heard it was him. All jumping up and down for joy. Hope Pope Benedict cracks down on those that twist and warp doctrine to suit their own needs, while trying to create new and false doctrine at the same time. Time to clean house.
Lol, the only thing that is certain, is death and taxes(and bills). I hope that Pope Benedict lives for quite a while. He looks like he's in very good health :)
I have found myself wondering for the last couple of months, what God must be thinking about everything that is going on.
Long live Pope Benedict XVI!
Trajan88
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