BENEDICT XVI: NEWS, PAPAL TEXTS, PHOTOS AND COMMENTARY

Well, here's one good thing about this: he'll never be Pope!!
Thank God!!

What a fool!! I'm sorry to be so frank about a Cardinal, but he's been completely unpredictable and has said the most ludicrous things.
Before even dreaming about suggesting Curial reforms, he should get his own mess cleaned up. The state of the Austrian Church is horrendously terrible!!

WHAT IS IT WITH THE BISHOPS OF GERMAN SPEAKING NATIONS??!!
Are they so intimidated by being chased by the media that they've lost their common sense?!!
And then Arch-Bishop Schick of Bamberg (pain) gives an interview to the 'Spiegel' - the biggest Pope-bashing tabloid in continental Europe, calling himself a 'clerical 68er' (??!!?), wanting to discuss celibacy!!
Giving advice to his conservative brothers. Honestly, I just wanted to cry… I certainly didn’t convert to be stabbed in the back by my own Bishop!!!
How can any sane Bishop even consider giving an interview to that lying, manipulating, left-wing agenda pushing and militant magazine!??






I've signed up for a two year subscription of 'Die Tagespost' and have been loving it!! What a wonderful paper!!
I haven't checked if my subscription of the print version will give me access to the online-version.
I'll inform you as soon as know.



Hi, Heike... Are you back from Rome now, or going there after the Pope gets back from Portugal?

Glad your Tagespost subscription is working out.... I followed a link today to it - something about how the German media are out to sabotage all the conservative German bishops, but it ended after a few paragraphs because of the non-subscriber thing! I really feel very badly about them going exclusive like this because in the first two years of the B16 Pontificate, I must have printed out two binders worth of articles from them....

As for that unspeakable person in Vienna, Carlo Maria Martini in 30 years as Archbishop of Milan and the years since his retirement has not said as many outrageous things as he has said in the past two years alone He really thinks that the majority of bishops in the next Conclave (Please, God! let it be 20 years away at least!) will be as namby-pamby as he is and bend whichever way public opinion goes! God help the Church.

If only it were possible to erase his name from the Catechism, and if only the Schuelerkreis could elect somebody else soon to be their president (after all, he was never a doctoral student of Prof. Ratzinger - I think he merely audited a semester's courses or something, since like Hans Kueng, he got his theology doctorate from the Sorbonne, la-di-dah!) UGGGGH and EEEEEWWWWW... (And that goes for the bishop you are so unfortunate to have!]

TERESA