I was cracking up today during the replay of the GA. Amongst many other pilgrims the participants of: 'trip of the readers of Süddeutsche Zeitung' were announced!
SZ has been slipping in readership and has even more so been slipping in credibility, being run by a militant anti-Church/Ratzinger person.
I'm sorry, but I can't even get worked up about the Küng piece.
It's simply too ludicrous to make me mad. Besides, the readers of that (in father Z's words) ‘fish wrap’ are not exactly Church supporters!!
The whole thing is just a big waste and the more they milk this topic, the more credibility they lose!
I'm glad to hear that SZ is going the way of other former MSM titans like the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the LA Times here in the USA! They are all becoming extinct like dinosaurs, unable to beat the competition from tne Internet, conservative talk radio and FoxNews.
About the insufferable Kueng: His rants will be used liberally by all the Church critics who do not have his name recognition, and will use him to 'strengthen' their arguments, so it's good to know exactly what he said, no matter how outrageous. I more or less ignored his recent forays in the Tablet and in a couple of French newspapers, but he has escalated his tone and language.
Unfortunately for his ego, with every polemic he writes like this, he is destined to be remembered in history not for any achievements of any kind - no matter how many books he writes - but for being the failed nemesis of Joseph Ratzinger, the man, the theologian and the Pope he could never be.
TERESA
P.S. Heike, I have just seen the sickest item so far in this whole sordid mess, on KREUZ.NET:
www.kreuz.net/article.10828.html
I hate to soil this thread with it, but it will eventually come out elsewwhere in English, whether it's true or not. In short, a website claims that the magazine
Der Spiegel is offering one million euros to anyone who can provide information that Joseph Ratzinger was ever involved in any homosexual incident during the years he was a professor; that this offer has been circulated for two weeks now; and that the prize money is being put up by a couple of ex-Nazis or neo-Nazis. There is no indication on kreuz.net that Spiegel has denied it, and I don't have the time nor the inclination just now to play sleuth on something like this. Even if Spiegel denies it, it is the sort of dirty trick someone was bound to come up with - anything to nail the Pope - sooner or later.
We need Fr. Amorth and all his exorcists to go to Germany and do their thing on these hate-driven Satan-possessed maniacs!
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 17/03/2010 23:54]