BENEDICT XVI: NEWS, PAPAL TEXTS, PHOTOS AND COMMENTARY

All this is extremely upsetting. "What they really want is to strike at the Pope". Indeed. That has become as clear as daylight.

And with a more than deficient PR department in the Vatican I am beginning to think Benedict stands quite alone.

Anyhow, thank you, Teresa, for keeping record of the main developments and especially the reportage in the MSM with all its misrepresentations. It is so very seldom that one finds a "story" about the Pope/Church that is factually a 100% correct. What a (seemingly?) losing battle......

I hope the latest drama in Germany won't make him ill. And in a certain sense I wish his brother had not volunteered to tell the public he sometimes smacked kids! Especially since it happened in most state schools as well at that period in time, a fact that is conveniently forgotten by all and sundry.





Hi Mags! Lovely to hear from you.

Yes, unfortunately, our beloved Holy Father is going through another one of those stations of the Cross that necessarily mark his journey as the Vicar of Christ. I am sure he is greatly comforted with the prayers of the faithful. All of us who love him would gladly share his burden if we could, and probably suffer more than he does because he has the strength of purity. But meanwhile we pray and hope he feels our love.

He is probably more personally concerned at this time for his older brother who has to go through this public ordeal because he happens to be the Pope's brother and for no other reason. But he also knows him better than anyone and knows his strengths. We can only be glad they have each other - a providential circumstance not given to many Popes in recent memory.

And so, we pray....


Best wishes,

TERESA


P.S. Thanks to Lella's follower-scouts, I just saw a wonderful testimonial by Tobias Weber, now a music publisher in Hofkirchen (passau district), as an entry on his blog,
musica-in-tempore.blogspot.com/2010/03/noch-einmal-domspat...
recalling his years as a Domspatzen choirboy under Mons. Ratzinger. I will try to translate as soon as I can but probably not now, because it is already 1:30 a.m.