Ratzinger elected pope
Apr. 19th, 2005 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4462077.stm
Ah, how long has it been since the head of the Holy Office of the Inquisition was actually elected pope?
I forsee a schism in the church during this papacy, as liberal catholics from North America and western and eastern Europe and conservatives from Latin America, Africa, and southern Europe pull the church entirely apart. I don't think progressive catholics are willign to give up on the church, but I don't think they're willing to accept the sort of iron hand they're probably going to get from Benedict XVI. Perhaps the conservative faction of the Anglican church can swap places with liberal catholicism, and Roman Catholicism can uphold the standard of blinkered, stubborn, doctrinnaire, bloody-minded antiEnlightenment while the rest of the catholic church moves forward.
Ah, how long has it been since the head of the Holy Office of the Inquisition was actually elected pope?
I forsee a schism in the church during this papacy, as liberal catholics from North America and western and eastern Europe and conservatives from Latin America, Africa, and southern Europe pull the church entirely apart. I don't think progressive catholics are willign to give up on the church, but I don't think they're willing to accept the sort of iron hand they're probably going to get from Benedict XVI. Perhaps the conservative faction of the Anglican church can swap places with liberal catholicism, and Roman Catholicism can uphold the standard of blinkered, stubborn, doctrinnaire, bloody-minded antiEnlightenment while the rest of the catholic church moves forward.
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Date: 2005-04-20 03:20 am (UTC)