#52
Posted: 4/19/05 at 10:10pm
My Italian friends have e-mailed me that the Italian newspapers are already calling this pope "Papa Ratzi".
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#53
Posted: 4/19/05 at 10:23pm
The man busted an interfaith let's-mend-some-fences-and-find-a-common-ground communion service between German Catholics and Lutherans, for Petes sake.
"Christ, Bette Davis?!?!"
#54
Posted: 4/19/05 at 11:05pm
Frances Kissling, president of Catholics for a Free Choice:
The good news is that Ratzinger is not John Paul II. No world leader owes him thanks for his role in the downfall of communism. It will take years for his papacy to achieve any potential political cache. The bad news is that he is Pope, and he was elected by two thirds or more of the princes of the church, who knew what they were doing.
I can no longer delude myself about these princes’ almost total lack of interest in healing the divide in the Church, in showing compassion for or even in listening to the voices of the suffering. The time for nuance is over. Let the unholy war begin
The good news is that Ratzinger is not John Paul II. No world leader owes him thanks for his role in the downfall of communism. It will take years for his papacy to achieve any potential political cache. The bad news is that he is Pope, and he was elected by two thirds or more of the princes of the church, who knew what they were doing.
I can no longer delude myself about these princes’ almost total lack of interest in healing the divide in the Church, in showing compassion for or even in listening to the voices of the suffering. The time for nuance is over. Let the unholy war begin
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#55
Posted: 4/20/05 at 1:03am
"From Hitler Yout to Papa Ratzi" was the headline of The Sun in England.
The Daily Telegraph called him "God's Rotweiller."
The Daily Telegraph called him "God's Rotweiller."
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