Benedict XVI: peacemaker or Darth Vader?

dArKeR

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Fri Apr-22-05 12:13 AM
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Benedict XVI: peacemaker or Darth Vader?

As far as birthday presents go, they don't come any better than this. Three days after turning 78, Joseph Ratzinger's fellow cardinals made him supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, the ultimate guardian of the faith for the world's 1.1 billion Catholics.
Ratzinger, a German, now Pope Benedict XVI, is universally described as a staunch conservative, a pre-eminent intellectual and an unwavering theologian.

The fact that he was chosen in the shortest conclave in 66 years suggests his fellow cardinals were in no doubt they were entrusting the church to a safe pair of hands.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2005/04/22/2003251479

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SHRED

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Fri Apr-22-05 12:21 AM
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1. Darth

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-wochar214226829apr21,0,2092802,print.story

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dArKeR

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Fri Apr-22-05 12:51 AM
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3. Amazing story! I feel a little creepy. Before any of these reports came

Edited on Fri Apr-22-05 01:14 AM by dArKeR

out, I posted on the DU that I've got this feeling that with Bolton, Wolfowitz, Ratzinger,,, that it was the same small group of Power Elite controlling the entire world. And lookie here. What a story!

Make you wonder if there is a secret cult of child molesters in the catholic church? With Neil having sex with children in Bangkok and all this tied together.

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whirlygigspin

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Fri Apr-22-05 12:28 AM
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2. looks like a duck, quack! quack!

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President Jesus

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Fri Apr-22-05 01:03 AM
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4. conservative priest does not equate to warlord

It's not like politics where 'conservative' is synonymous with 'warmonger.'

In fact, while Ratzinger clearly has a history of being a church traditionalist when it comes to doctrine, he has also staunchly been a peacenik, and was instrumental in harshly condemning the US invasion of Iraq.

By labeling him a warmonger (ie Darth Vader), you are playing directly into the hands of the right-wingers (who only want to recognize Benedict's love of doctrine).

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