“Once again I give you thanks for your merciful love, kindest Lord, for having found
another way of arousing me from my inertia.”
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St. Gertrude the Great
German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the first German elected to the papacy since the beginning of the second millennium, has become Pope Benedict XVI. Ratzinger, former archbishop of Munich and leader of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, was…
The conclave of cardinals at the Vatican has determined the successor to John Paul II — Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, who has taken the name Benedict XVI. Ratzinger, who has a reputation for hard-line insistence on traditional Catholic dogma, had worked…
Just stumbled upon your blog (thanks to Captain Ed’s hearty recommendation)…it’s fabulous and bookmarked…please continue the wondrous work which you have begun here…all blessings to you and yours.
I have recently discovered this site from recommendations by both Captain’s Quarter and Hugh Hewitt. I look forward to reading you daily. Thanks to both the afore-mentioned.
Peter O’Keefe
Last November, writing for Catholicplanet.com Robert Conte, Jr. predicted that the next Pope would be named Benedict XVI…and he also predicted a whole lot more, unfortunately.
I wrote about it tonight on my site. If interested, check it out…but resign yourself to a sleepless night if you do.
I hope and pray that the name-game is the only kind of prediction Mr. Conte is good at. If he’s just as good as predicting the big picture, there’s trouble ahead.
*Ronald* Conte’s article has been removed from Catholic Planet, but it was cached here http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-religion/879151/posts in 2003. Among the discussion then of the next Pope being from the Third World is this one:
Popes are chosen often in response to the challenges the church and society face, in addiction to the Curia politics. Pope Pius XII was in no doubt made Pope because of his expertise in foreign affairs during a time of extreme foreign turmoil(WW II). Pope John Paul II was in part chosen because of his resistence to Communists, and the fact his papacy would give opressed Catholics in Communist Countries a sign of hope.
What is the biggest challenge the church faces today? It is not really in the 3rd world, but in the now secularised West, and how faith has collapsed especially in Europe. What is needed is a Pope who can restore faith in Europe, that is the biggest challenge the faith faces today by far. That said, I think this means somone else than Cdl Arinze, or most any Cardinal from a 3rd world country, because lets face it, if a POpe from a 3rd world country brings up morals, the Europeans will simpily dismiss him as being a uninformed man from the 3rd world. It is crisis mode all over the West now, even the more progressive Cardinals are very concerned.
April 19th, 2005 at 12:45 pm
It’s Benedict!! I love it!
April 19th, 2005 at 12:48 pm
Benedictines = Olivetans
Gloria Olivae
April 19th, 2005 at 1:01 pm
Ratzinger is NOT a Benedictine, though. It must be said.
He has merely taken the name of the founder of Western monasticism, but he could not be considered a Benedictine.
April 19th, 2005 at 1:02 pm
vive il Papa
April 19th, 2005 at 3:16 pm
Benedict XVI — the Next Pope
German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the first German elected to the papacy since the beginning of the second millennium, has become Pope Benedict XVI. Ratzinger, former archbishop of Munich and leader of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, was…
April 19th, 2005 at 3:37 pm
Ratzinger Transforms To Benedict XVI
The conclave of cardinals at the Vatican has determined the successor to John Paul II — Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, who has taken the name Benedict XVI. Ratzinger, who has a reputation for hard-line insistence on traditional Catholic dogma, had worked…
April 19th, 2005 at 4:20 pm
Just stumbled upon your blog (thanks to Captain Ed’s hearty recommendation)…it’s fabulous and bookmarked…please continue the wondrous work which you have begun here…all blessings to you and yours.
April 19th, 2005 at 10:41 pm
I have recently discovered this site from recommendations by both Captain’s Quarter and Hugh Hewitt. I look forward to reading you daily. Thanks to both the afore-mentioned.
Peter O’Keefe
April 19th, 2005 at 11:09 pm
Last November, writing for Catholicplanet.com Robert Conte, Jr. predicted that the next Pope would be named Benedict XVI…and he also predicted a whole lot more, unfortunately.
I wrote about it tonight on my site. If interested, check it out…but resign yourself to a sleepless night if you do.
I hope and pray that the name-game is the only kind of prediction Mr. Conte is good at. If he’s just as good as predicting the big picture, there’s trouble ahead.
April 21st, 2005 at 11:24 pm
*Ronald* Conte’s article has been removed from Catholic Planet, but it was cached here
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-religion/879151/posts in 2003. Among the discussion then of the next Pope being from the Third World is this one:
Popes are chosen often in response to the challenges the church and society face, in addiction to the Curia politics. Pope Pius XII was in no doubt made Pope because of his expertise in foreign affairs during a time of extreme foreign turmoil(WW II). Pope John Paul II was in part chosen because of his resistence to Communists, and the fact his papacy would give opressed Catholics in Communist Countries a sign of hope.
What is the biggest challenge the church faces today? It is not really in the 3rd world, but in the now secularised West, and how faith has collapsed especially in Europe. What is needed is a Pope who can restore faith in Europe, that is the biggest challenge the faith faces today by far. That said, I think this means somone else than Cdl Arinze, or most any Cardinal from a 3rd world country, because lets face it, if a POpe from a 3rd world country brings up morals, the Europeans will simpily dismiss him as being a uninformed man from the 3rd world. It is crisis mode all over the West now, even the more progressive Cardinals are very concerned.
41 posted on 03/30/2003 2:06:32 AM PST by JNB
Interesting!