And Benedict hates teddy bears, too

[tee_eff_em]

A tip o’ the hat :tiphat: to the GetReligion.org blog for this pointer to Newsweek International’s second year report on the Holy Father.

I think this observation is spot on:

-]Angry hack/-]Reporter Joseph Contreras begins by noting that Benedict will head to Brazil in a few weeks. He then proceeds to compare Pope John Paul II to the current pope, and it doesn’t look pretty. I find it funny that the previous pope is now the model of perfection. I don’t seem to recall that being the case even a few years ago.

Also, the first comment on the piece:

Oh, it’s better than that. It’s good for JPII to speak eight languages, bad for B12 *[sic] *to speak ten, and superbad for Catholics to hear Mass in two, regardless of whether it’s in the current format or the Tridentine.

Truly a shining day for professional reporters and editors at Newsweek International. And for logic.

(Especially since every orchestra and early music group in the world can sing or record all the parts of a Tridentine Mass in Latin without prior permission, while actual priests in actual Catholic churches don’t have the freedom to do the same thing for real — and often get a lot of guff from their bosses for it. It’s a ludicrous situation, and I look forward to seeing it straightened out.)

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[stbruno]

but he likes honey and keeps bees himself. Leave the poor man alone. He is doing a fine job with our church. After all the Holy Spirit is truly the one who selects the Pope. I have no issue with this holy man.

 

[stbruno]

but he likes honey and keeps bees himself. Leave the poor man alone. He is doing a fine job with our church. After all the Holy Spirit is truly the one who selects the Pope. I have no issue with this holy man.

 

[willy]

but he likes honey and keeps bees himself. Leave the poor man alone. He is doing a fine job with our church. After all the Holy Spirit is truly the one who selects the Pope. I have no issue with this holy man.

AMEN!