> Ratzinger!
>
> New name Benedict.
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> Another conservative.

Did anyone really expect anything else? This is the same organization that waited until the 1980s to issue a decree officially acknowledging that Galileo was right and the Earth revolves around the Sun. "Thank God it's official." By the 24th century, they should be ready to accept womens' suffrage, contraception, and child abuse laws.

[EDIT] Oops, web sources indicate it was in 1992 that God said we could believe that, not in the '80s. [/EDIT]

Too good for the Religious thread, eh?

> I wonder if he lost his Hitler Youth pins?
>
>

LOL

wonder why if any German who is going to somethink is called

somethink about Hitler,

this is over 40 years ago..........., but some People learn nothing...

Greetings from Germany NRW
Ulli S@h Berkeley's Staff Friends Club m7 ©

Hi, rocky..

> they say Ratzinger took that name to show he has a softer
> side like XV, instead of being viewed so 'hardlined".

Kind of like an Inquisitor by any other name?...

Ratzinger's history doesn't provide much evidence of anything but dogmatic fundamentalist ideology.

I'm not reassured by the 'title'.

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I wonder if he lost his Hitler Youth pins?

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My Italian isn't all that good ("Itali-ñol"), so I couldn't tell for certain if it was XVI or XVII.

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> XVI?
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Yep NA,
XV is already used. they say Ratzinger took that name to show he has a softer side like XV, instead of being viewed so 'hardlined".

Rocky

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www.boincsynergy.com

"We are moving," Ratzinger declared, "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."

The modern world, Ratzinger insisted, jumped "from one extreme to the other: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism."

Ratzinger, who is German, spoke for the conservative side of a culture war argument that is of primary interest to Europe and North America. When Ratzinger said that "having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church, is often labeled today as fundamentalism," his words were undoubtedly welcomed by religious conservatives far outside the ranks of the Catholic Church.

Ratzinger now carries on his battle without the charismatic support of his friend. He is proposing that the church take one aspect of John Paul's synthesis -- the battle against relativism reflected in doctrinal rigor -- and make it the late pope's central legacy.

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18920

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Oktober in the Vatican will have a whole new meaning now!!

.o0(hmmm wonder if he'll make Oktoberfest a religious holiday)

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I'd rather speak my mind because it hurts too much to bite my tongue.

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And now, let us ink our pens to begin writing the history...

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It's official!

Let the celebrations begin!

Congratulations!

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Node-to-node latency, I guess.

.o0(I have friends up on high... and high on uppers, too!)

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> Woah.
>

That I came before you even we posted the same time????

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"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

Woah.

Vrbis Et Orbis.

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> Ratzinger!
>
> Another conservative.
>

Yeah, just heard! God bless the Roman Catholic Church!!

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XVI?

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> Thats not what it say at my news source. Better find yourself a new one.
>
>
> Click me
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I think, perhaps, you need a new news source. New pope name is Benedict XVI.
Cardinal Ratzinger is elected new Pope.

Ratzinger!

New name Benedict.

Another conservative.

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> POPE ELECTED!
> Hit the radio! Hit the TV!
>
> BREAKING NEWS!!!
>

It hasn't been announced yet! :-( (Who it is, I mean!)

We are waiting! Cardinals!

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