Cdl. Ratzinger’s got several spots on Amazon’s bestsellters.
Right now, he has 25, 21, 20, 18, 15, 13, 12, 11, and 7. I expect this to change tomorrow. 9 of the top 25 on Amazon. I think someone’s earned a brand new Popemobile!
Who knew Pope Benedict XVI could sell?
April 19, 2005
PattyHabemus Papam, and a bene papam
April 19, 2005
There definitely won’t be any fuzzy headed Catholicism for a while longer. I have heard so many good things about him, his kindness, his humbleness, that he is a teacher through and through and well loved by those who know him, always taking the time to speak to everyone.
But he is orthodox, and the usual suspects (Democratic Underground) are already calling him a Nazi and every other unkind name they can come up with. The left and liberals will hate him. Not because he is unkind or evil or egotistical. No, they will hate him because he stands for something. Just as JPII stood for something. Standing there makes you a target for hate, and he will get plenty of it.
My heart is breaking for him now, I am filled with sadness for the burden he takes on. I will pray for him that he knows how much so many of us love him and support him.
Here we go already….
Many blame Ratzinger for decrees from Rome barring Catholic priests from counseling pregnant teens on their options and blocking German Catholics from sharing communion with their Lutheran (search) brethren at a joint gathering in 2003.
Holy tolerance, no communion sharing between two faiths who do not believe the same thing about the Eucharist! No priests telling young girls all of their options, like…. what, abortion? If a Catholic priest starts telling young girls that they can have an abortion, I want off this planet now. There are plenty of people in the world that will tell them about abortions and how easy it is to make their problems go away.
He is theologically orthodox, kind, humble, and he carries a huge burden. That guarantees that the liberals will villify him and his character.
A Plain Box on Exit
April 09, 2005
You know, I never know what to do with my weblog anymore. There’s really no time to post regularly, but I don’t want to just dump it entirely. Then there’s the damn trackback spam. I just deleted most of my old posts just to get rid of it. Getting 100+ of them a day is just not fun at all.
Then JPII died, and I know I’m glad I have this spot to go to and post something, if I want.
I have always admired him and loved him, but when I saw that plain box he was in at his funeral, that he was leaving the earth became really painful. I know he’s in a wonderful place, and I would not wish him back for more suffering, but we are going to miss his goodness and kind face. No one is perfect, and there is much that I wish he had done and addressed, but his pontificate was so full of so much good, it seems small to just point out the things he didn’t get to or the things that he didn’t do so well on at the end of his life when he was sick.
What is harder to take is listening to the news channels finding every Catholic dissident out there wax on about how now maybe we can have women priests now, perhaps the church will reconsider their stand on abortion and contraception.
Just stop it. The Catholic Church is that, and it is more likely that our wax wings will hold up on a trip around the sun than the church ordaining women as priests or saying abortion is okay if you just do it quick enough. If they did that, they would cease to be the Catholic Church. There simple has to be in this world one outpost of moral certitude (even if there is much disagreemtn) that never changes.
2000 years have passed with very little change, and here’s one reason why. I think it was the Montanists way back in the 300s or 400s that had the same problem moral progressives have now — failure to reproduce in adequate replacement-plus quantities means your brand of theology will die out.
But if you do embrace creation of life and all that brings — large, messy families with not enough money and not enough time, but lots of humanity — you very quickly stop being a moral progressive.
