Habemus papam: the new Pope needs our prayers

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 04/20/05 | Leader

[killjoy]

No, we have met the enemy, and he is Satan and his modernist, liberal useful idiots.

[Killborn]

Dang, Meek! They are coming out of the woods or something?!!? Yeesh.

[537cant be wrong]

coming out of the wood.
i think they just pounce on any major event that is rightious, but in there gay world it is more doom and gloom.
sheeesh there world is so dark it must truely be unberable for there miserable souls :)
BWWWAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAHAAAAAA

[Killborn]

The majority of homosexuals need to tell the Lavender Mafia to FOAD. They are making the entire homosexual community look bad with their radical anti-God, pedophiliac, mindlessly carnal, and drug addicted deathstyle. Like the priests said:

"Speak now or forever hold your peace."

[TXBSAFH]

Prayers sent.

[fortunecookie]

No, we have met the enemy, and he is Satan and his modernist, liberal useful idiots.

And in some places, they can't line up fast enough to 'help'. Excellent comments!

[dsc]

"Speak now or forever hold your peace."

And when they don't, will you start wondering if the
"majority of homosexuals" only keep the rhetoric toned down and pretend not to be "radical anti-God, pedophiliac, mindlessly carnal, and drug addicted" to provide plausible deniability for the activists?

People who suffer from same-sex attraction disorder are ill. Some are sicker than others, but the worst thing you can do to any of them is to allow them to pretend that their illness is health.

[dsc]

I never saw SNL during those years, so I'm not sure just what your graphic is meant to imply.

[fortunecookie]

They are ramping into full tantrum mode. The lefties were so sure, so certain they would prevail with a progressive Pope and in the election last fall, too. It's a little fun to watch them race to try to one-up each other with false accusations and vitriolic untruths. Heads will be exploding.

[Killborn]

Agreed. The worst thing we can do to homosexuals is to keep them in that lifestyle. They need help.

[Killborn]

Heh. I can't wait for them to self-destruct. Justice, liberty, and the american way would trimph over communism once and for all.

[dsc]

"Heads will be exploding."

Oh, if only...

[Ramius]

Oh, if only...

Stay tuned. :-)

[Mill John Stuart]

As a world religion that has participated in, and suffered from, harsh religious conflict for two millenia, the Church has found that repression of evil and false doctrine can lead to creation of even greater evils. The Church has made its peace with considerable variation in doctrine and practice: priests with common law wives in Peru, Santeria in the Caribbean, Candomble in Brazil, Americans who use artificial contraceptives, conservatives and liberals. It has apologized for the violent way it has suppressed what it considered false in the past. The experiences of religious conflict have taught the Church and all other world religions that a degree of religious tolerance is necessary, that you cannot prove your love of God by silencing, excommunicating and driving out those who do not conform to the latest doctrinal shifts. The first amendment of the US Constitution embodies a recognition that religious tolerance is necessary for people to get along in the modern world. The Catholic Church, while not a political nation, is the denomination which has the biggest, and perhaps most elastic tent of all the world religions. That is inherent in the name Catholic, all-encompassing. Ratzinger has moved away from this big tent approach that the Church has evolved over centuries. He has been very selective about which currents and which individuals he would suppress, not going after the most violent, or most in violation of Catholic sexual morality, or farthest from official doctrine. There is a clear political bias, reflected, rather than a broad opposition to evil, or even false doctrine.

[Mill John Stuart]

Just because we are conservative doesn't mean we are anti-modernist, does it? The Catholic Church certainly embraces science and philosophy. What are American democracy, capitalism, the bill of rights, and internet blogging if not modernist?

[Mill John Stuart]

Flattered.

[garandgal]

At the opening of this conclave, Cardinal Ratzinger delivered a sermon stressing continuity of religious doctrine in contrast with the endless experiment of secular ideologies, seesawing from "Marxism to free-market liberalism, even to libertarianism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism".

Wow. This is a terrific line, and shows this man's vast intelligence and understanding of the effects of immorality on a variety of issues. I love the compare and contrast of what he sees as immorality on both ends of the spectrum, and agree with him 100%.

[Mill John Stuart]

Ratzinger has a considerable public resume. He would not deny that he has been quite clear about where he is going. He was pretty straight forward in his long statement after John Paul's death.