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It's Cardinal Ratzinger, he's chosen the name Benedict XVI. Interesting choice, he's almost 80 years old, and not an Italian.
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The message that this decision is sending me is that the Catholic world is ready to do this in another 10 years. For all we know it could even be sooner depending on his current health. As for his papal abilities I pulled this from a cnn.com article:
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In the Vatican, he has been the driving force behind crackdowns on liberation theology, religious pluralism, challenges to traditional moral teachings on issues such as homosexuality, and dissent on such issues as women's ordination.
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"Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism," Ratzinger said.
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Who knows where this old dude will lead 2/10 of the world's population, but hopefully it isn't toward a more explicit fundamentalism.
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the·o·ry - a working hypothesis that is considered probable based on experimental evidence or factual or conceptual analysis and is accepted as a basis for experimentation.
faith - Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence.
- Merriam-Webster's dictionary
Last edited by Fourtyrulz; 04-19-2005 at 09:56 AM..
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