How will Pope Benedict be Received in Britain?

[Bcool]

I dunno which is worse, the Queen swanning around in her many carriages or Rolls or the pope swanning around in his popemobile. At a time when people are struggling to make ends meet in the UK and most of Europe, such pomp and circumstance and dripping with jewels and cloth of gold is more than usually sick making. They should stay home & knit socks for the Red Cross or summat useful. Faugh!

Britain has maintained genetic diversity by welcoming wave after wave of conquers: the Roman legions from all over the empire, the Angles, the Saxons, The Jutes, the Scandinavians, the Norman French, et cetera.

Well, they didn't exactly welcome them you know. They definitely didn't get the Earl Grey in the best Doulton cups and the monogrammed silver sugar tongs.

Wasn't 'till the Georges moved in really - mad as March hares, so they fitted in quite nicely.

However, the Welsh let very few of that rabble in. Very selective about who we hob-nobbed with we were, bach.

Petros said: He must have a pretty good reason for going to visit an island of inbred hillbillies.

Which is worse? Pedophilia or inbreeding?

Oiy! Wotch it!!

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[coldstream]

The church hierarchy is as disconnected from the faithful as politicians are from the average voter, particularly this present pope and his entourage. They seem to be doing the same things as the Muslim clerics who want to return to the glory days of the 14th century.

Pope Benedict is widely admired and respected by the Catholic faithful. When first elected he was tagged with handles like the Panzer Kardinal and the 'German Shepherd'.. but his Pontificate has been more pastoral than combative. His encyclicals have stressed the inner succor of faith.. Deus Caritas est (God is Love), Spe Salvi (Faith is Hope), Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth).

He has intiated counter-reforms to rein in the corrupt interpretations of the Second Vatican Council (under the guise of the 'Spirit of Vatican 2'), which has led to so much turbulence in the Church and its teaching institutions over the last 40 years.

He has re-instituted the Old Latin Mass (1962 Missal) as an extraordinary and widely available form. Much of the culture of dissent on fundamental moral doctrines within the Church has coalesced around the Novus Ordo, the vernacular version of the Mass instituted by Paul VI, with the priest facing the nave and much of mystical and reverent quality of the liturgy lost.. which has led to its becoming increasingly laden with Protestant congregational and anticlerical sentiments & symbolism.

He has taken a strong stand to excise ALL homosexuality, pedophile and adult, from the priesthood, which has become a cancerous rot on the body of the Church.

He's a great Pope, completely in synch with his community and vocation. His ministry, with its emphasis on fundamental structures of faith is collaborative and complimentary to JPII's preaching emphasis.

Only those who have abandoned faith and fallen into the grips of the moral relativism, radical individualism and atheism that pervades our age and will undo our civilization think otherwise.

 

[Spade]

Pope Benedict is widely admired and respected by the Catholic faithful. When first elected he was tagged with handles like the Panzer Kardinal and the 'German Shepherd'.. but his Pontificate has been more pastoral than combative. His encyclicals have stressed the inner succor of faith.. Deus Caritas est (God is Love), Spe Salvi (Faith is Hope), Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth).

He has intiated counter-reforms to rein the corrupt interpretations of the Second Vatican Council, which has led to so much turbulence in the Church and its teaching institutions over the last 40 years.

He has re-instituted the Old Latin Mass (1962 Missal) as an extraordinary and widely available form. Much of the culture of dissent on fundamental moral doctrines within the Church has coalesced around the Novus Ordo, the vernacular version of the Mass instituted by Paul VI, with the priest facing the nave and much of mystical and reverent quality of the liturgy lost.. which has led to its becoming increasingly laden with Protestant congregational and anticlerical sentiments.

He has taken a strong stand to remove ALL homosexuality, pedophile and adult from the priesthood, which has become a cancerous rot on the body of the Church.

He's a great Pope, completely in synch with his community and vocation. His ministry, with its emphasis on fundamental structures of faith is collaborative and complimentary to JPII's preaching emphasis.

Only those who have abandoned faith and fallen into the grips of the moral relativism, radical individualism and atheism that pervades our age and will undo our civilization think otherwise.

Admired and "more pastoral than combative"?
Vatican: Ordaining Female Priests Equivalent to Sexual Abuse of Children | Women's Rights | Change.org


A strong stand against paedophilia?
Belgian Catholics' abuse plan falls flat with critics | National Catholic Reporter

Reinstituting the Latin mass?
Latin is the mother tongue of Catholics?

"Only those who have abandoned faith and fallen into the grips of the moral relativism, radical individualism and atheism that pervades our age and will undo our civilization think otherwise."
The winnowing of the Church to a few nodding reactionaries will make it irrelevant.