Posted on 04/19/2005 8:53:39 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
WE HAVE A POPE!!!
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.
Looks like we need a Tom Delay in the Senate. Any chance of him running for Senate in Texas?
Long live the Pope! the left is already engaging in shameless attacks on the Pope
Couric and Matt Lauer come on ABC at 7am I believe......I don't usually watch them either, but if you miss it or can't steel yourself to watch it, you can put in governsleastgovernsbest's screen name in the search place at the top of the page to read his very well written synopsis and take on the highlights (if any). LOL
I don't think John Paul II had any during his pontificate?
Trajan88
I heard this, too, on FOX. I didn't know this about him. On top of all his other stellar qualities, he's cultured and talented musically also. Amazing man.
Thanks. I always forget his exact screen name, but I love to read his reports. Hilarious! I meant to ask you, governsleastgovernsbest, why not start a ping list? If you've already got one, put me on it!
Dear Trajan88,
I believe that Pope Benedict's brother, Georg, is still living. He is a retired priest.
sitetest
Trajan88
No, Pope John Paul was orphaned early on. His mother died around the time he turned 9, his older brother, a doctor (or med student?) was killed in the War and his father died a couple years later, all before John Paul was 20 or so. I don't know about Pope Benedict. That's a good question.
:)
I am officially requesting a piano duet...Pope Benedict & Dr. Rice. What piano piece? I have absolutely NO idea. LOL
I wonder if his Holiness can hook me up with some sweet mid-pitch seats?
Trajan88
Fox news had his brother on earlier this afternoon. Looks just like him.
Time to clean house! I am hoping that our new Pope will sweep out all the rubbish that has accumulated since Vatican II. I'd like to see Pope Benedict start with politicians who claim Catholicism as their religion, then violate all her teachings. You know who I'm talking about. Then, he can defrock priests, bishops, and cardinals who were involved in the pedophile shuffle. Hopefully, we can have Latin Mass again.
It's a great day, and I'm especially happy to see all the well wishers here on FR :)
wow are they twins?????
Quasimodo, The Huntchback of Notre Dame.
"In rural southern Bavaria, April 16, 1927, was one of those snowy, bitterly cold days the region sometimes gets in the spring. Bavarians are a tough lot, in part because by butting up against the Alps, they get some of the worst weather in middle Europe. It did not help that Ratzinger entered the world at 4:15 A.M., in the icy chill of the early morning. His older brother and sister were not allowed to come to his baptism for fear of getting sick.
Perhaps it was fate that Ratzinger was born on Holy Saturday, and his parents were named Joseph and Mary. Like another child of another Joseph and Mary, Ratzinger grew up to become a sign of contradiction, a scandal to some and a sort of savior to others. Ratzinger reports in his 1998 autobiography that because he was born on Holy Saturday, he was baptized with the newly blessed Easter water in the small parish church in the village of Marktl am Inn. It is difficult not to read some kind of sacred meaning into the scene, and Ratzinger has not resisted, seeing it as a symbol of the human condition in its "not quite" relation to Easter and the resurrection.
Now seventy-three, Ratzinger's childhood memories are the ones most closely tied to his understanding of who he is and what he believes. Listening to him and reading him today, it is striking that Ratzinger rarely makes reference to his mid-twenties through mid-forties, the years as a professional theologian during which he achieved wide fame. When Ratzinger wants to strike an autobiographical chord, he always looks back to his early days in one of four small Bavarian towns. Those memories are of intimate moments shared with his family; of the rock-solid Catholic ethos of Bavaria, expressed in the liturgy and the simple faith of the people; of his own intellectual awakening, fueled by classical languages and literature; and, finally, of the political and social upheavals of the day, most dramatically, the rise and fall of Hitler's Third Reich.
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