The Visit Live (Pope Benedict)

[Jules_Dell]

Here is a thought-provoking piece on Pope Benedict’s visit:

Benedict’s Creative Minority

*In the wake of Benedict XVI’s recent trip to Britain, we have witnessed—yet again—most journalists’ inability to read this pontificate accurately. Whether it was Queen Elizabeth’s gracious welcoming address, Prime Minister David Cameron’s sensible reflections, or the tens of thousands of happy faces of all ages and colors who came to see Benedict in Scotland and England (utterly dwarfing the rather strange collection of angry Kafkaesque protestors), all these facts quickly disproved the usual suspects’ predictions of low-turnouts and massive anti-pope demonstrations.

Indeed, off-stage voices from Britain’s increasingly not-so-cultured elites—such as the celebrity atheist Richard Dawkins and others whom the English historian Michael Burleigh recently described as “sundry chasers of limelight” and products of a “self-satisfied provincialism”—were relegated to the sidelines. As David Cameron said, Benedict “challenged the whole country to sit up and think.”

Of course the success of Benedict’s visit doesn’t mean Britain is about to return to its Christian roots. In fact, it’s tempting to say present-day Britain represents one possible—and rather depressing—European future.
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Grace Siofia
Britain has never lossed its Christian roots,there might be less practising Christians,and being infiltrated by Atheism Humanism and Islam,but it will NEVER lose its Christian roots,especially and moreso its Catholic roots,which have went through the persecutions of the Vikings,Protestant Revolutioneries etc .

Like the Hymn goes.

Faith of our Fathers living still
Inspite of dungeon fire and sword
Oh how our hearts ,beat high with joy
When ere we here that glorious word
Faith of our Fathers living still
We will be true to thee till death
We will be true to thee till death

 

[GraceSofia]

We are not vocal ??? I ask you to come to Scotland the next time the Pope comes to Scotland,and you will hear the noisiest welcome in this world for a Pope…

I meant being vocal year-round against infringement of religious rights, making Catholic adoption agencies close or give babies to homosexuals, etc. I admittedly know little about Scotland, so I’m talking more in general about the UK and US where it seems that the humanist-atheist types are really LOUD and pushy, and Christians are not.

Pope McBenedict XV1

 

[GraceSofia]

Grace Siofia
Britain has never lossed its Christian roots,there might be less practising Christians,and being infiltrated by Atheism Humanism and Islam,but it will NEVER lose its Christian roots,especially and moreso its Catholic roots,which have went through the persecutions of the Vikings,Protestant Revolutioneries etc .

Like the Hymn goes.

Faith of our Fathers living still
Inspite of dungeon fire and sword
Oh how our hearts ,beat high with joy
When ere we here that glorious word
Faith of our Fathers living still
We will be true to thee till death
We will be true to thee till death

Glad to hear this!
There seems to often be a disconnect between (liberal, secular-humanist type) journalists and the society which they try to portray.