BENEDICT XVI: NEWS, PAPAL TEXTS, PHOTOS AND COMMENTARY

Kind of you to respond to my requests, Cowgirl. Many thanks, also for sharing your thoughts on this and other matters.

You grew up near the famous Luther(an) castle/fortress! - the only man made structure for which Protestants perhaps feel some emotion and a tradition of "veneration", apart from Getsemane (etc.) in Jersualem! Your conversion in that respect has definitely been more dramatic than mine .

Thanks also for the links to the Ebangelical german Church, highly appreciated. We are all crossing our thumbs for a positive development in Germany and I, for one, am following it very closely and for many reasons, one being my own ancestry, another my love of history including that of the churches and the Church!

Teresa: with reference to the new papal friends from the intelligentsia in Italy.....