My Take on Pope Benedict XVI.
I am glad for him. In any event I am not going to complain about it anyway but obediently accept. I was hoping he would become Pope as from what I hear he was doing all the right things and making the right enemies.
A little info I have gleaned from various sources about Pope Benedict XVI. Yes, he was a "Hitler's Youth" member but so were all German youngsters. He was drafted into the Wermacht and was trained as a basic infantryman and found himself in Hungary manning anti-aircraft guns. He deserted in 1944 and spent time in a POW camp. He then went to the seminary and trained as a priest.
He is a very learned man and holds a doctorate degree. His job just before this latest promotion was basically to make sure Church teaching the world over conformed to Vatican teaching. This is a very good thing to be doing before one becomes Pope, and doubly so with some of the problems the Church faces today, namely the US Church and its pedophilia crisis.
A little info I have gleaned from various sources about Pope Benedict XVI. Yes, he was a "Hitler's Youth" member but so were all German youngsters. He was drafted into the Wermacht and was trained as a basic infantryman and found himself in Hungary manning anti-aircraft guns. He deserted in 1944 and spent time in a POW camp. He then went to the seminary and trained as a priest.
He is a very learned man and holds a doctorate degree. His job just before this latest promotion was basically to make sure Church teaching the world over conformed to Vatican teaching. This is a very good thing to be doing before one becomes Pope, and doubly so with some of the problems the Church faces today, namely the US Church and its pedophilia crisis.
posted by Marcus Aurelius at 1:02 PM
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