White Smoke from the Sistine Chapel? — Page 4

Benedict? Hm...

my access to msnbc and cnn is messed up right now... S L O W

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Why all the intrigue over the name Benedict?

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This whole thing creeps me out a little.

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My kid has an obsession with "The Price Is Right." Since he's home on vacation, he's allowed to watch it. (Like we could stop him without a melt-down!) First the satellite went out. We sent him upstairs so he could use his own television which has an antenna, and ten minutes before they finished the show, it got pre-empted for the announcement. (Which by the way, they didn't actually confirm with bells and such until a few minutes after twelve so it wouldn't have really killed them to do a crawl, "Smoke at the Vatican, we will go live as soon as we have more information." But noooooo, oh nooooooo! Everybody's got to be the first one on the air with the information!

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Which is...?

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Cookie, if two in a row are any indication...

While I wish Pope Benedict a long and healthy life, it will be interesting to see who follows him.

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http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050419/NEWS06/504190446/1012

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I thought he would have honored John Paul II by going to JP III
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Maybe he felt JPIIs work had been too extensive to try to rule in his shadow as JPIII.

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So lensman, will the showcase showdown be re-broadcast at a later date? Let's boycott CBS for preempting it. That sailor boy was a hottie!

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Tico - Benedict is considered the founder of western monasticism, and as such, believed strongly in the seperation of the spiritual self from the real physical world. I see his use of the name as re-enforcement of his belief that the church's strength is to be solidified by 'hunkering down' within the paradigms of the past, and withstanding the 'temptations' of the modern world (essentially the opposite of what bwaysinger was hoping for.)

I was raised by OSB priests (Oblates of St. Benedict) in case some would wonder why I say these things.

shbrt - very public knowledge that they've been able to justify as 'not by choice.'

Yeah, it's unfortunate. The name definitely signals a return to the "old days." He might have been a friend of John Paul II, but his own statements have been far more conservative than John Paul II in his most liberal moments. As I said before, he equated religious fundamentalism with merely holding to basic tenets of faith.
Again, expect nothing but a few big steps backward socially under this papacy.
That said, I would LOVE to be proved wrong.