der Pope-meister!

  • Who’d a thought it? They came up with a new pope in only two days, and it’s Ratzinger, the Ger­man con­ser­v­a­tive.

    Well, he was cer­tainly my favorite can­di­date, from the lit­tle bit of com­men­tary and analy­sis I read about it. I mean, given the quote that Greg-the-husband passed on to me, how can you not love the guy (Ratzinger, that is. Not Greg.):

    “We are mov­ing toward a dic­ta­tor­ship of rel­a­tivism which does not rec­og­nize any­thing as for cer­tain and which has as its high­est goal one’s own ego and one’s own desires,” said Ratzinger, 78, who has been the Vatican’s chief over­seer of doc­trine since 1981.

    And here are some good­ies from the blo­gos­phere (three hours before the evening news. You gotta love alter­na­tive media!)

    • Via Touch­stone: The Weekly Stan­dard is already out there find­ing where that loud buzzing sound is com­ing from. Yep, it’s Angry Lib­eral Jour­nal­ists again (most of whom, by the way, wouldn’t enter a Catholic Church unless they were get­ting a byline out of it). And the word of the day is appar­ently “hard-liner”:

      “Hard-liner Car­di­nal Joseph Ratzinger was elected …” Newsweek

      “Car­di­nal Joseph Ratzinger of Ger­many, a hard-line guardian of con­ser­v­a­tive doc­trine, …” MSNBC

      “Car­di­nal Joseph Ratzinger of Ger­many, the church’s lead­ing hard-liner, …” Asso­ci­ated Press

      We got it already! The line, she is hard. Excel­lent. Top-notch jour­nal­is­tic integrity and inno­va­tion on dis­play again.

    • But their response is down­right placid com­pared to pop­u­lar blog­ger Andrew Sul­li­van, who sees the num­ber 666 all over the place:

      “I am still in shock … he all but declared a war on moder­nity … this isn’t just a dis­agree­ment; it’s a full-scale assault … And the speed of the deci­sion must be inter­preted as an enthu­si­as­tic endorse­ment of his views.

      Really? One can only hope. If we’re very lucky, the Catholic Church has just hit the Big Gong and announced to the global com­mu­nity that creep­ing sec­u­lar lib­er­al­ism is ver­fallen. (Look it up, if you don’t remem­ber the “Blaz­ing Sad­dles” quote.)

    • Occi­den­talis may be the first with an idea of how the new pope will respond to the Ortho­dox.(Another thanks to Greg for find­ing this.)
    • John Mark Reynolds is thrilled.
    • Fr. John White­ford isn’t.
    • Huw has a “wait and see” attitude.

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    April 19th, 2005 | Grace | No Comments |

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