A GERMAN POPE!- Page 3

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 9:54pm

Matt - good one.

[Dollypop]

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".

[MasterLcZ]

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.

[Borstalboy]

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

[Unknown User]

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."